People who bought the Solana Mobile Web3 phone Chapter 2 before it was available got a nice surprise. The free digital assets they got were worth more than the phone's cost for a little while.

Data from twoloot.com shows that the value of the stuff given away went up to $480 on Thursday. That's more than the $450 the phone cost. So, those who got the free stuff and sold it when the price was high made $30 profit, even though they didn't have the phone yet.

The Solana Chapter 2 phone came out in January this year after the first one, Saga, sold out in the United States and Europe. Unlike Saga, which didn't sell well at first but then became popular, Chapter 2 sold out in just one day.

Solana co-founder Raj Gokal said they hit their sales goal for the phone in just one day. The phone runs on Android and is still being made. The first batch is supposed to reach buyers by mid-2024.

When people pre-ordered the phone, they had to connect it to a Solana address to maybe get some free stuff, like with Saga.

In April, the free stuff started coming in. Two Solana meme coins, Cats in a Dogs World (MEW) and Maneki (MANEKI), gave free tokens to people who pre-ordered the phone. MEW gave 37,600 tokens to all pre-orders, while MANEKI gave about 5,200 tokens.

According to CoinGecko, the tokens were worth $0.0089 and $0.269 at their highest on April 24 and 25. At that time, the MEW tokens were worth $334 and $129 each, making a total of $463.

Other Solana meme projects, like Wuffi (WUFFI), also gave free tokens to phone buyers. WUFFI gave out 114,000 tokens in total. All these free tokens together were worth more than the phone cost, with extra profit on Thursday.

But now, the tokens have gone down in price a lot because the market is very up and down right now. MEW used to be worth more than $300 but now it's $220, and MANEKI dropped to $124.