nixCraft 🐧19h ago

Commodore’s new flip phone runs Sailfish OS with 99% Android app support (Signal, Maps, Uber etc) but blocks browsers, social media and work emails at the OS level. Features a T9 keys, no popup notification preview outer screen (only shows the time, date, battery, and network signal), audio headphone jack, user swappable battery, and retro C64 games to reclaim your focus. What do you think?

https://commodore.net/why-a-flip-phone/

Show threadnixCraft 🐧19h ago
The phone expected to start at US $500 for the standard models. There are also higher end editions etc that cost about $640 (Founder's Edition with 24K gold-plated Commodore button and premium finish etc). The price is higher. They need a basic phone model that can allow google maps and uber and I will buy it at lower price. $500 is too much. I just need those two for travel which cheapo phone does the job.
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ 19h ago
@nixCraft Yeah $500 is horribly expansive for a flip-phone, that said it's pretty cool to see SailfishOS in that beloved form-factor.
Show threadMoses Izumi19h ago
@lanodan @nixCraft
I think they should've made a keyboard phone with 2-3 USB ports and dual SD card slots, instead of jumping face-first into the digital minimalism gutter (i.e the "no browser, no email" bollocks).
maybe even a full-size HDMI port.

basically any features that'd make a current smartphone (including the cheap ones) viable as a replacement for your laptop.
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ 
@moses_izumi @nixCraft Yeah the no browser/email is horseshit, that said well… given the bad situation of the browser (*sarcasm* thanks Mozilla) on SailfishOS I guess it might be a good idea in terms of managing expectations.

That said it's kind of fun because my 2009 feature phone got email+minimal-browser, same for my current one (HDM 110 4G) that I recently bought.

Personally what I wish for is an actual return to feature phones quite like the Nokia E65, telephony as first-class, then rest of communication/multimedia/PDA/… stuff second, and third as a bonus third-party apps for things like games and some software it doesn't have builtin.
Which entirely clashes with the smartphone model, as there any sort of third-party bullshit is at the same level as critical features.
Jun 16 at 12:36pmWeb