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Commodore 64's New Flip Phone Skips Android for Linux-Based Sailfish OS (feed.itsfoss.com)
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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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[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 55 points 3 weeks ago

I agree it's too much money. But for the record it's not a dumb phone, it is a smartphone running sailfish which can run android apps in a sandbox

However for less money, the Sony Xperia 10 III with Sailfish OS (Xperia 10 mk3) is a better buy.

[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago

They are definitely charging way too much, the price and the browser block are the only reasons I am not buying one. I think they could reasonably price it at $250 based on the hardware and that it will certainly be a low production run which massively increases the price. Also, that Sony with SailfishOS is both old (it was released over five years ago) and refurbished, not exactly a fair comparison.

[-] Foreigner@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think I just found my next phone. Do you have any experience with the phone?

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I own one but I haven't put a sim card in it to test the actuall phone aspect yet.

My initial criticisms are:

  • because each app is in its own jail, there is no way yet to set a global DNS setting like one can do on android
  • there is no native mullvad VPN app
  • all android apps are in the same sandbox, there is no out of the box way to have an android app isolated from others
  • there is no work profile
  • the gesture based ui is weird and id rather have more navigation options.
[-] Foreigner@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Very good to know, thanks for the write-up!

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