The final death of phone design in the Thames Valley
I think this is the final nail in the coffin for what used to be a thriving industry in the UK.
Moved to the UK 20 years ago, there were well over a dozen companies within 20 miles of Reading designing mobile handsets. NEC (Reading), Nokia, Vertu (Fleet/Camberley), Motorola, Sony, Ericsson (Basingstoke), RIM/Blackberry (Slough), Panasonic (Bracknell & Thatcham), Sharp (Bracknell). There's almost certainly more than that, e.g. I believe Hitachi in Bourne End were designing some from the UK at the time.
Vodafone, Three and O2 were all designing phones too, e.g. the XDA, or custom versions of phones from the other suppliers.
There was an entire ecosystem of equipment suppliers, manufacturing, test, chipset vendors, etc...
Bullitt were essentially one of the last vestiges of that industry in the Thames Valley area.
And now they're gone too.