From Google Alerts today: Turing's latest phone comes with a digital assistant called Sir Alan, reports The Verge.

The more important story is buried a little, and it's that TRI is (alegedly) partnering with a Chinese electronics firm known as TCL to produce their next handset. As TCL has actually made smartphones that have actually shipped and actually gotten into customers' hands, that's a good idea if it really happens.

The article is suitably skeptical as befits TRI news.