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Turing's latest phone comes with a digital assistant called Sir Alan

F or a company that calls itself a phone maker, Turing Robotics Industries (TRI) doesn’t have a great reputation when it comes to actually shipping phones. The firm’s first handset, the “ultra-secure” Turing Phone, was repeatedly delayed, and when it did finally reach consumers, came with a different operating system to the one originally advertised (Sailfish instead of Android). That’s perhaps why TRI announced today  that it’s partnering with Chinese tech company TCL to make the Turing Phone Appassionato. TCL is one of the world’s largest phone makers, selling devices under a number of brands  including Alcatel and BlackBerry. According to TRI CEO Syl Chao, this expertise — along with “invaluable feedback” gathered from owners of the first Turing Phone — will help TRI improve its mobile offerings in 2017 As with previous devices announced by TRI, the Appassionato (which was “soft-launched”  earlier this year) sounds gratuitously high end. According to TRI’s spe