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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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[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

but this product already exists for around $150 just with a crappier OS.

Qin doesn't make a flip phone, they don't use Linux, a worse camera, a shitty DAC, no headphone jack, and they're all loaded with Google Apps / Spyware.

They aren't the same product at all.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Then I mentioned the Uniphone S22

Is the camera $350 worse?

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 21 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.