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Commodore 64's New Flip Phone Skips Android for Linux-Based Sailfish OS (feed.itsfoss.com)
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A year has passed since Commodore, the computer brand many of you know and love, came back from the dead under new ownership. The comeback is picking up pace too, with a lineup that already includes multiple Commodore 64 Ultimate editions, a C64X PC, and a licensing program that invites outside builders to use the name. Now, they have announced a return to the phone market, and not in the doomscrolling glass-slab avatar we are all used to, but in a retro, very equippable flip phone format....

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[–] supernight52@lemmy.world 144 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Not only are the phones extremely overpriced for what they are- the images they are using for advertising are AI images, and not real pictures. Also using "Make blank great again" format for their tagline is another scoop of excrement on the shit sundae.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 37 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

I had a bad feeling about the whole C64 brand when it got overhauled recently. It had vaporware startup written all over it. Guess my gut feeling was on point once again.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

The C64U that they make and that my wife bought me is one of the greatest things I have ever owned.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It had vaporware startup written all over it.

It can't be "vaporware" when they are actually releasing products for purchase.

[–] Gormadt@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

But they haven't released yet, they've been announced and given no firm release date.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 7 points 8 hours ago

They haven't released this product, but as far as I'm aware they are shipping C64s.