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Turing phone delayed; refunds and upgrades offered to pre-orderers
June 01, 2025
If you’ve been following the development of Turing Robotic Industries’ “liquid-metal” smartphone, then you’re probably just as eager as we are to find out how these futuristic doodads will actually fair in the wild. Even if you’re not an interested buyer, you’ve got to be at least a little bit curious about how well theTuring Phonewill live up to the company’s claim that it’s “unhackable” andnearly unbreakable.
Well, both of us are going to have to wait a little bit longer, because Turing has pushed their smartphone’s release back an ambiguous amount of time. Although they’re pitching it as “a few short weeks longer,” their email to pre-orderers also seems to indicate that the delay might push the release back as far as March 2016.
The security-packed device was slated for shipping on December 18, but Turing is trying to sweeten the deal for those who are choosing to stick around. Pre-orderers who are willing to forgive Turing will get an upgrade in internal storage. If you pre-ordered the 16GB version of the Turing Phone, they’ll upgrade you to the 64GB one. Likewise, if you ordered the 64GB model, you’ll get the 128GB model instead. 128GB choosers will get a special, limited edition 128GB model. If this is the last straw for you and you’re ready to walk, Turing will refund you completely.
Here’s the explanation they sent out in full:
Are you one of the10,000+ Turing fans who made a reservation? How are you taking this setback? Will you be sticking with Turing or going with someone else? Let us know in the comments!
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