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Commodore's Next Hardware Release Is Dumb, And Proud Of It (www.timeextension.com)
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[–] 144 points 3 months ago (23 children)

It's 2026 and I'm suddenly desperately interested in buying a flipphone from Commodore? What is even going on? Has reality itself completely jumped the shark?

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  • [–] 56 points 3 months ago (20 children)

    You found a secret level!! 🤯🔥💥

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (18 children)

    Ooooh 😲

    T9 😞😭

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (17 children)

    Wait I looove t9 bro

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    I've been thinking lately how cool it would be to type via T-9 on PC via the numpad. Game-changer for HTPC duties.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Can't say I was a fan...

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I smell a young poster here

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Had a nokia 3310, had a flip phone, did not like T9. The predictive nature was aweful and never got me to like it before I got a slide keyboard phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    Predictive nature? I remember just spelling every word out.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    that was the other mode, where you just tap "777" for R for example, T9 predictive had a dictionary to match the word so "weed" became 9333, instead of 933>33>3.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Commodore has had an interesting year. A retro-tech YouTuber got into discussions with the company and ended up buying it. I think they had plans to become a public benefit company of some kind, with a focus on openness and preserving old tech.

    I'm surprised that the Wikipedia article doesn't have a lot of details on those recent developments from the past year

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

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