It’s officially $25K now. The original target of $20K was based on the idea that the $7500 EV rebate existed, which it did when they first announced the Slate. I’m super interested in the Slate, but I don’t need a new car yet and I have a gut feeling that there will be laws forcing newer models to include a bunch of phone home spyware bullshit in all vehicles soon, which would take away much of the appeal of the Slate.

An Elton John edition would unironically look more acceptable.

A hud would be cool I suppose. You never know when you need to check someone’s power level.

I am sure there is a big leap in both performance and build quality compared to the Nokias, but for what was originally a $60 phone, it is a great value even at $100. I don’t see any “great value” with this Commodore phone, even though I do like many aspects of it.

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.

Nokia sells flip phones for under $100 that use KaiOS. They were more like $60 before the current shitshow in the US.

That’s where my head is at as well.

Being too expensive doesn’t mean they are necessarily gouging. My wife crochets blankets as a hobby, but she’d have to charge a stupid amount to sell them at a profit if she used decent yarn and valued her time at even minimum wage. Said blanket would be “too expensive” without a doubt.

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.

I’d be wary of putting more than that on an sdcard anyway, but I am with you. I have far more flacs than would fit within 256GB. I also wouldn’t bother loading up everything on the phone.

They specifically state that you can do iMessage through third party bridges that could be stopped at any time. They didn’t lie, but it would be foolish to get the phone assuming iMessage capability is solid.

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

I am literally that guy, but even I rarely need to look up something simple while I am out of the house. I don’t need to be protected from myself. It is both condescending and dumb.