Kodak’s new Ektra smartphone would rather just be a camera

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Have you heard of the assassin bug, an insect that eats the insides of its rivals and then wears their hollowed-out corpses like trophy armor? Cool, well, in totally unrelated news, there’s a new Kodak phone coming out.

Yes, digital photography and smartphones definitely killed off the once-mighty imaging company, but its brand — and, it claims, its ethos — live on. Last year at CES we met the first Kodak phone, the IM5; a mid-tier Android handset marketed as an easy-to-use photography device. Now, Bullitt has unveiled the Kodak Ektra — a vintage-looking handset with a souped-up camera modeled after a classical 1941 Kodak of the same name.

As with the IM5, the 5-inch, 1080p Ektra is actually designed by Bullitt, a UK company that…

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