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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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[-] nevyn@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 week ago

"Great again" seems a very tone deaf way of advertising... unless you are trying to advertise against the product, or advertise to inbreds

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

I don't think Comodore uses that phrase in its ad copy, the phrasing comes from itsfoss

[-] nevyn@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

Seems a very odd choice regardless of its origin, more suited to a kid rock album, or the measles.

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