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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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[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

Funny thing is, a T9 keyboard is actually a selling point for me. Current keyboards suck without any feedback and their prediction always causes so many typos I have to go back and correct. T9 I could type without needing to look at it and know I had it right.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Only if the T9 software is good though. KaiOS, a Mozilla initiated project to get web apps on T9 capable phones, absolutely failed with simple things like capitalizing the word "I" for example.

I didn't realize how unintuitive dumb phones could be until I was trying to explain different functions that were triggered by different arrow keys on a KaiOS phone to an elderly person

[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

My daughter has a flip phone with KaiOS and she texts well on it, but she also never used the older, better T9 implementations.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

I swear you have to tap the shift key maybe six times if you use the word "I" in the middle of a sentence. If I use that phone seriously, maybe muscle memory would kick in, but it's just so unintuitive.

It's unfortunate because I swear you can design a feature phone well. There just isn't a lot of thought put into it now that Android can (or at least could) mostly overshadow that marke.

[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Back in the day, feature phones were top of the line, and many of them were great, but I suppose that could be nostalgia talking.

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