Commodore 64's New Flip Phone Skips Android for Linux-Based Sailfish OS
2026-06-18 12:45 UTC
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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@Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 2026-06-18 12:55
This phone should cost $150 max. What’s with dumb phones charging smart phone levels of money?
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@supernight52@lemmy.world 2026-06-18 13:41
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.