Turing Robotics to manufacture phones in Finland for security reasons

Turing Robotics Industries, TRI for short, has announced that it will relocate its headquarters and production of its Turing Phone to Salo, a city in Finland. The move from California was allegedly prompted by security concerns.

The main reason for choosing Finland is the legislation on the protection of privacy in electronic communications, says TRI CEO Steve Chao at Techcrunch. The company wants to assure its customers that the data security and privacy of the phone is good.

TRI also recently announced in a newsletter that it will run Sailfish OS instead of Android. The company also made this known in early February in an email to customers who had already pre-ordered the phone. According to TRI’s report, Sailfish OS runs “very fast on the Turing,” so people don’t have to worry about performance on the Snapdragon 801, because Sailfish OS is optimized for the Turing Phone.”

Sailfish OS creator Jolla announced in 2015 a partnership with another Finnish company SSH Communications to make Sailfish OS a secure European smartphone operating system under the name Sailfish Secure OS.

In the same newsletter, TRI promises that despite the development delay, delivery of the phone to customers is expected from April. In total, more than 300,000 Turing Phones must roll off the production line in Salo in 2016, where a Nokia factory used to be.

In addition to the Snapdragon 801 running at 2.5GHz, the Turing has an Adreno 330 GPU, a 5.5″ full-HD screen with a 3000mAh battery. There is a 13-megapixel camera on the back and an 8-megapixel camera. megapixel version on the front. The 15.1×7.7×0.9cm device should come in 16GB, 64GB and 128GB variants. The phone must be waterproof up to ten meters underwater and has no USB port but a special connection to charging the phone, comparable to a MagSafe connection.Data transfer is therefore only possible wirelessly.Connecting headphones is via bluetooth.