Commodore 64's New Flip Phone Skips Android for Linux-Based Sailfish OS

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...So is sailfish... But ultimately I think the reason they went with it is that it is much more secure than an android phone as it ensure your privacy is respected. You can still run android applications, but you don't have to worry about Google apps spying on your activity. Similar to Graphene OS where you can actually manage the permissions of Google apps rather than allowing it to have unfettered access to everything. Or heck, you don't even need to install any Google application to be able to use either Graphene or Sailfish. To me, they are just better ecosystems. And heck, sailfish isn't the only one. There is also postmarket os, Mobian, Manjaro ARM, Arch ARM, Ubuntu Touch, PureOS, and many more.

A hard-coded list of known browsers would almost certainly work. There aren't that many of them. Or better, a list of the common support files that get installed alongside the main browser executable(s), so you can't just rename the main one and have it work.

Anything cleverer than that is about as technical as removing the custom OS and installing standard Sailfish.

It had vaporware startup written all over it.

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

I swear you have to tap the shift key maybe six times if you use the word "I" in the middle of a sentence. If I use that phone seriously, maybe muscle memory would kick in, but it's just so unintuitive.

It's unfortunate because I swear you can design a feature phone well. There just isn't a lot of thought put into it now that Android can (or at least could) mostly overshadow that marke.

Back in the day, feature phones were top of the line, and many of them were great, but I suppose that could be nostalgia talking.

but this product already exists for around $150 just with a crappier OS.

Qin doesn't make a flip phone, they don't use Linux, a worse camera, a shitty DAC, no headphone jack, and they're all loaded with Google Apps / Spyware.

They aren't the same product at all.

Unless there's a tremendous performance bump for the price, it seems more and more like this just isn't worth it. And I'm not sure if people want the performance bump anyway...

Then I mentioned the Uniphone S22

Is the camera $350 worse?

FM radio is jam-packed with ads and most stations don't even have human DJs anymore. I don't miss it

A headphone jack with an audiophile-grade DAC? 🥵

Then I mentioned the Uniphone S22

At least that one is flip phone so it's closer but it's still not running Linux, has a worse camera, no earphone jack, no FM radio, half the RAM, far less storage, worse CPU and so on.

Is all of that worth $350 $250? Depends on your use case I suppose but it's absolutely not the same product.

The cheapest Nothing phone is $500.

Unihertz is also $499.

???

I am sure there is a big leap in both performance and build quality compared to the Nokias, but for what was originally a $60 phone, it is a great value even at $100. I don't see any "great value" with this Commodore phone, even though I do like many aspects of it.

Commodore fan here, but srsly, the flip design has so much more failable mechanics than a simple rectangular slab. Will anybody buy it except for the nostalgia? I expect that will soon wear off when they realize how much they miss a bigger screen.