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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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[–] gnufuu@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You sure you didn't misread? To me it looks like they allow sideloading Email apps but disallow sideloading web browsers.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

How are they determining if an an app is a browser?

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 22 hours ago

A hard-coded list of known browsers would almost certainly work. There aren't that many of them. Or better, a list of the common support files that get installed alongside the main browser executable(s), so you can't just rename the main one and have it work.

Anything cleverer than that is about as technical as removing the custom OS and installing standard Sailfish.