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Re: Commodore Releases Flip Phone

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Post by raffael_de »

baggachipz wrote: post #89
raffael_de wrote: post #81

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> inclusion of Meta-owned WhatsApp just uninstall it then? > Any company which cares about privacy I don't think this phone or Commodore has anything to do with privacy beyond what's legally required. It's a lifestyle product. The phone is running Sailfish OS.

The whole point of the phone is that you don't install or uninstall apps. They're there, and are immutable as far as I can tell. _EDIT_ raffael_de is absolutely correct, apps can be installed and removed, as they have their own "app store". Apologies for creating confusion and thanks for pointing it out.

Where does it say that? You can un/install apps as you like.

Re: Commodore Releases Flip Phone

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Post by butchkass »

jmull wrote: post #65
butchkass wrote: post #36

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I use zero social medias and I have a phone that wouldn’t tell me no if I (a grown adult) did want to use them. In fact I’d believe this is exactly for social media addicts because needing to be blocked from even accessing the domains by your OS to not use them is truly something. And it is nostalgia bait. Wide sweeping nostalgia bait (C64 and Y2K). Corny nostalgia bait because surfing on pre social media Internet an…

I wouldn't worry so much about it. Why spend time even thinking about something you don't want to buy?

?

How exactly do you expect me to know I don’t want to buy something without thinking about it first ?

A product was presented to me -> I analyzed the product’s specs -> I compared those specs to the product’s asking price -> I concluded the asking price was too high for the specs -> I concluded I do not want to buy the product

I didn’t think about this any more or less than I should’ve.

Re: Commodore Releases Flip Phone

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Post by jhbadger »

tennfown wrote: post #88

So is there any connection with the original commodore company at all or is this just a case of “rich kid gets his hands on an old long dead IP for milking”?

Well, Perrifractic has no connection to the original Commodore in the sense of having worked there (he was a child in the heyday of the C64 and Amiga), but he isn't just some random person trying to cash in - he's a long time Youtuber focusing on Commodore and other 1980s computers and his enthusiasm is genuine.

Re: Commodore Releases Flip Phone

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Post by nosioptar »

tennfown wrote: post #88

So is there any connection with the original commodore company at all or is this just a case of “rich kid gets his hands on an old long dead IP for milking”?

Original Commodore went under in '94. Pretty sure this is just milking a corpse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International

Re: Commodore Releases Flip Phone

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Post by erickhill »

My wife and I got a flip phone for our daughter when she was in elementary school. It was inexpensive, allowed her to text us when on the school bus - gave us the connection we all needed. About a year later the pull of a phone that could run Spotify won, but for that year the flip phone really was great. And cheap.

I'm not familiar with the OS on this phone, but it sounds interesting.

But $500? Really? DOA

Re: Commodore Releases Flip Phone

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Post by mingus88 »

alexgieg wrote: post #72
SirFatty wrote: post #33

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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).

Many countries don't use SMS, they use WhatsApp, for almost everything, from chatting with family and friends, to business contacts, to talking with your bank manager, to medical appointments, to 2FA, and even to transfer money. That's what prevents most people on those countries from having a dumb phone, and forces even the most illiterate of 90yo great-grandmothers to learn how to navigate around Android or iOS, al…

As long as Meta owns WhatsApp, don’t hold your breath.

They operate the service to get your personal data into the hands of their customers (advertisers) so why would they support a dumb client that is designed to be incompatible with their business model

Re: Commodore Releases Flip Phone

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Post by card_zero »

ubermonkey wrote: post #50
SirFatty wrote: post #33

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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.

That person might have a narrow, blinkered view, in which maps on a phone are essential, unable to understand that other people don't care.
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