Other (Inoi)

As of June 22, 2017, INOI LCC (Ina LLC) operates in the field of microelectronics, electrical engineering and information technology.

The main directions in the business are the development of mobile electronics, takes part in the development of the Sailfish Mobile OS RUS operating system.

History

2023: Liquidation of the Company

On September 22, 2023, the Ina company (produces smartphones under the Inoi brand) entered the liquidation stage on its own request. The relevant information appeared in the SPARK-Interfax system.

As Kommersant writes with reference to these systems, the beneficiary of the company and the former co-owner of the IT distributor VVP Group Sergey Fomin has been appointed liquidator. The company did not answer the question of the publication, earlier it refused to communicate with the Russian media due to re-registration in Estonia.

Inoi smartphone

Devices from Inoi became the first smartphones on the Russian market to use the domestic operating system Aurora"" (formerly Sailfish). However, poor sales results led to the fact that the company had to switch to traditional. Android

At the same time, in the first quarter of 2023, Inoi became the second most popular Russian smartphone brand after BQ, although over the year, total sales of domestic gadgets halved. According to experts, the company left Russia to avoid problems with partners and suppliers amid the situation with Ukraine. Since the end of 2022, the brand page did not contain information about the representation in Russia, instead of it links to the pages of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan were offered.

By October 2023, Inoi still has a site in Russian, but now it is in the.com domain zone and leads to the Inoi CIS page. CIS is the CIS, the Union of Independent States, which includes Russia,, Azerbaijan,, Armenia Belarus Kazakhstan,, and Moldova Tajikistan Uzbekistan, but not Estonia.

The range of Inoi devices for the year has hardly changed. These are still cell phones designed, for the most part, in style Nokia in its heyday, as well as smartphones with a distinctive design, but now they are also joined by clones of modern ones. Apple iPhone^[1]

2022: Leaving Russia, moving the company to Estonia

At the end of October 2022, it became known about the departure of Russian the developer smartphones Inoi from the market. RUSSIAN FEDERATION On the official website of the company there are no regions previously present there Russia and Belarus, instead of them the CIS flag is used.

The fact that Inoi left the Russian market, writes Kommersant, citing a source close to the company. The representative of the manufacturer in a conversation with the publication noted that the company "does not give comments in the Russian Federation, since it is Estonian."

"We are now an Estonian company." Russian smartphone developer Inoi left the Russian Federation

It is also specified that Russia and Belarus have disappeared from the brand's website, and the CIS flag is now used instead. This change occurred between March 31 and October 5, 2022. At the same time, Inoi devices by October 26, 2022 are available in a number of Russian electronics stores.

OOO "Ina" belongs to the former co-owner of the IT distributor VVP Group (acts as the official brand supplier) Sergei Fomin, in early October he bought 100% of the Bayon equipment store, whose trademark is registered in Estonia. VVP Group has been operating in Russia since 1993, its main legal entity is the Distribution Center, which is now owned by Irina Sibirtseva. Fomin was its main owner in 2007-2012.

The Russian phone brand is leaving the country for the first time, Denis Kuskov, general director of the analytical company TelecomDaily, told the newspaper. He suggested that the company wants to distance itself from Russia's special military operation in Ukraine to avoid problems with foreign partners and supplies.

According to Kuskov, Inoi from Russia will not affect the market as a whole in any way, since the company's share was minimal. Another question, the expert emphasizes, is how Inoi will distribute products outside of Russia: in the same Estonia, "sales, if they grow, are very slow," he added.^[2]

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