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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      4 hours ago

      Then I mentioned the Uniphone S22

      At least that one is flip phone so it’s closer but it’s still not running Linux, has a worse camera, no earphone jack, no FM radio, half the RAM, far less storage, worse CPU and so on.

      Is all of that worth $350 $250? Depends on your use case I suppose but it’s absolutely not the same product.

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        3 hours ago

        $500 - $150 = $350

        I realize they’re not exactly the same phone, but still, does it make sense that it would cost 233% more

        I legitimately don’t know, but I’m sure the ability to run one OS over another OS doesn’t come for free.