Not Commodore-looking. Not nostalgic. Not novel. It unchecks all the boxes.
I’m saying that as a very happy C64U owner.
The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I'm actually excited about the Jolla phone supposed to launch in September. It's a bit on the expensive side but hopefully it will pave the way to a proper consumer friendly phone. Most of these phones comes with a gimmick too to make them more enticing but so far Sailfish OS is THE gimmick I'm actually excited about.
My favorite phone of all time was my Nokia N9. I would absolutely have another if there was an updated one.
Absolutely loved my N9! Used it for many years until I switched to Lumia series until 2018
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#53The cool thing is running two phones w same number. One big market phone and one minimal. Take the minimal out most of the time and the big one when you need to. Tmobile used to let me do that but it was pricey.
It still is pricey, but you can already buy such a minimal one; it’s a smartwatch.
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#54It’s as overpriced as the SpaceX IPO.
Overpriced relative to what? Phones that are produced at scale by the millions and so can have much lower prices due to economy of scale? That's going to be the case with anything produced in low volumes, but that doesn't mean they are overcharging for it. Most tech products are sold at somewhere around 3-4x what it costs the company to make them.
Back when I designed phones, there was a minimum order of 50K units before an OEM would talk to you, and even then, they usually had a like-unit already in the production pipeline so they wouldn't have to retool everything.
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#55The Samsung android flips are great but all this patent pending tech is just configurations on a non basic build of google.
Like the idea, commodore never had me in its nostalgia, too young, idea is cute, t9 keyboard is workable but I disagree that it’s viable. I want to be wrong of course but
Samsung and apple using their fold flip and discipline fixes the other side. People do not want to detox. Going back to a flip won’t fix it.
Same as the glp1 drugs, people knew food was bad, didn’t stop eating. Started body shame movement. Now that movement seems to have gone silent, glp1s fixed obesity seemingly overnight.
So the question is, what is the future glp1 equilivant for digital detox, a simpler phone or a phone that makes it more complicated to get digital services isn’t it.
Then there’s the argument for price, photo quality and all. No one is going to take photos and edit on a desktop in photoshop or Lightroom. Same as for using two phones and transferring esims, their WhatsApp number, etc
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#56It runs Sailfish. That's something, I guess.
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#57This is a pocket Linux terminal with loads of untapped potential out of the box. Combining voice navigation with an ssh linked home AI server may make this a true privacy-first successor to the prying smartphone for the AI era. And there is the audio quality, with a battery that lasts a week. The Bluetooth tethering has a standby feature so any non-cellular wifi device you carry is effectively always connected as wel…
Not really, it’s a 5 year old SOC that runs Sailfish.
You want a Linux box in your pocket? Why does a flip phone factor excite you?
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#58I'm not sure about these new dumb phones. Just not having social media in the first place has worked alright for me. I hate my phone, and my relationship with it, but sometimes you just need to use one. My preferred strategy is having a normal phone, minimal apps, and just keeping it switched off most of the time, particularly round the house. Thing is, I've got a worse problem with my laptop and desk. Between HN, li…
It’s not even a dumb phone. It’s a WhatsApp flip phone.
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#59For some reason the diagram under the "Not Your Granny's Flip" heading has been AI-generated
The whole concept is hitting me like a Google studio AI suggestion taken to the extreme with contract manufacturing somehow on-tap.
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#60It’s as overpriced as the SpaceX IPO.
Overpriced relative to what? Phones that are produced at scale by the millions and so can have much lower prices due to economy of scale? That's going to be the case with anything produced in low volumes, but that doesn't mean they are overcharging for it. Most tech products are sold at somewhere around 3-4x what it costs the company to make them.
The BOM speaks for itself