You may not remember this now, but before iPhones and Android-based smartphones became a thing, Nokia’s biggest rival at the top of the mobile device vendor ranks was a fruit-themed brand that’s not Apple.
While HMD Global is keeping the Nokia name alive (barely), TCL unsurprisingly left BlackBerry for dead last year after trying (and largely failing) to pair the mainstream appeal of the Android ecosystem with traditional physical keyboard designs for an entirely new generation of mobile productivity enthusiasts.
