Just5
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| Company type | Trademark, brand |
|---|---|
| Industry | Mobile phones, feature phones |
| Founded | 2008/2009 |
| Headquarters | , Latvia |
Key people | Michael Nikolaev (CEO)[citation needed] |
| Owner | SIA Orbita Telecom[citation needed] |
| Website | just5 |
Just5 is an international mobile phone designer and developer headquartered in Riga, Latvia. The development of Just5 mobile phones started in 2008 and the trademark was acquired on October 5, 2009. The brand has been inactive since 2018.
Just5 mobile phones are developed in cooperation with the design-bureau Newplan which is based in Beijing and Shenzhen and a joint company Just5-Newplan was created in 2009. Just5 mobile phones are manufactured by ODMs in Taiwan and are based on Infineon and MediaTek hardware platforms.[citation needed]
Just5 started sales in Europe in the first quarter of 2009 and the devices appeared in the markets of Russia and US in the third quarter of 2009. As of September 2010, Just5 mobile phones were being sold in 33 countries worldwide. In 11 of those countries, the devices were sold as rebranded under a local operator's brand.[citation needed]
The Just5 brand received the grand-prix award in the category "New Name" (new product or service) for 2009 at the BEST BRAND/EFFIE RUSSIA and the mobile phone "with big buttons", Just5 CP10, was awarded the iF Product Design Gold Award in 2010.[1][2]
In October 2014, a new model Spacer released on December 2, released its improved version of Spacer 2s. A smartphone Blaster was released in February 2015. It has MediaTek MT6732 64 -bit processor with four cores and Android 4.4.4 Kitkat operating system.[3]
Since the end of 2018, new brand products in the public sphere and the company's social network accounts can no longer be found. In December 2021, Orbit Telecom was charged 3465.84 EUR tax debt.[4] On 2 September 2022, Orbit Telecom was removed from Latvia's tax registry.
Logo
The Just5 logo represents an inkblot consisting of five connected circles that are all colored bright orange, except being colored silver in the US.[citation needed]
The five points and also the digit five in brand refer to the key qualities of the brand:[citation needed]
- Unique original design;
- Big buttons;
- Simplified menu;
- High quality assembling;
- Reliability.


