As a company (or a brand name I suppose, that markets nostalgia?) they're free of course to pursue any product they like.
The retro vibes I'm getting from this one though involve "the Fonz" getting up on waterskis…
Commodore Releases Flip Phone
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#43my kneejerk reaction was "plastic crap", but I'm happy to see Jolla getting any kind of OEM support.
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#44What about the apps that we need but not everyone needs? Local train apps, bank identification etc. Can't really escape it
SailfishOS runs most of Android apps fine. For bank ID, system attestation requirements might block them though.
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#45Hmm I imagine using a server to connect to signal/whatsapp or even email, then using a local model to classify and filter and trim messages and forwarding to SMS, and viceversa. I guess the trouble is I’d need many source numbers :thinking:.
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#46$500??
what? you made choke.... Where I live, those kind of flip phones used to normal price €€ to 100something€ back then, how we ended at 500?
I must ask if it's going to make coffee too haha.
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#47This is really confusing brand/product combination. Who is it trying to appeal to? I'm pretty sure the people who have fond memories of growing up with a C64 or watching ToS are of an entirely different generation than those with fond memories of flip phones and cyber/color-puke ads for transparent plastic gadgets. > BASIC Beige Edition There's a missed opportunity for a better ToS joke here: "Beige... the final fron…
What do you mean? I'm Gen X but remember all those things. It seems like a reasonable mashup of nostalgia.
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#48Nice, but a little bit too thin on details to read this as more than "we ordered a Commodore-branded Sailfish-OS phone from an ODM". If it would be more "considerate" from hardware (or even software) perspective it could be compelling, but from the infos on that page it sounds more like a "memberberry" product (like e.g. a phone from Kodak, Sega, Atari,... built on the business decision of [product-cost] + [branding]…
> we ordered a Commodore-branded Sailfish-OS phone from an ODM
Is this true? I did some research on flip phones the other week and I didn't turn up anything running Sailfish. Options seemed limited to
* custom AOSP derivatives (Punkt, Sunbeam, Kyocera, others - most common)
* older KaiOS devices (Nokia 2780 and friends)
* Nokia S30+ devices (traditional proprietary feature-phone firmware, somehow Nokia is still producing these)
Are there any other examples of Sailfish phones being vendored similar to how Commodore is doing theirs?
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#49This is interesting to me for a few different reasons, but one of the bigger ones is that it appears to be a Sailfish device that’s readily available in the US, which to date has been oddly rare. As a dev, Sailfish has caught my eye a few times over the years but no US availability has meant I’ve never had the chance to play with it.
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#50Some scepticism here I see, but personally I think this is spot-on. I've been keen on a dumber phone for a while, but losing whatsapp & maps makes it a non-starter for any real use. This is an excellent middle ground. The aesthetic is cool, and building this on Sailfish but with Android compatibility is awesome. Big fan of the concept.
maps exist, you must have missed that... as for whatsapp, I have never used it once, and yet my phone provides "real use" (whatever that means).
Try to understand that the person you're replying to clearly has different needs than you do.