TRI sold 700 paid copies of Turing Phone

Turing Robotic Industries has shipped 1,000 units of the Turing Phone smartphone, of which it has refunded 300 customers who did not receive a phone or were confronted with a phone that was defective upon arrival.

This brings the number of paid copies of the smartphone to seven hundred, according to an email that the parent company of Turing Robotic Industries has sent to customers. TRI began deliveries of the smartphone in the fall of 2016, after 2,000 people ordered the phone in 2015. The company has stopped supporting the device.

Parent company Turing Holdings is closing TRI and has formed a new company, TSI, to make the previously announced relaunch. The company focuses on design, screens and photography, the company claims. By paying attention to management of the supply chain and through collaborations with other companies, Turing Holdings does not want to repeat the mistakes made.

Turing Holdings hasn’t made any new announcements for phones yet. TRI had a device in development with the Chinese company TCL, which releases devices under the brand names TCL and BlackBerry, but that phone has been canceled. The Turing company has no affiliation with the British mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing of the same name.