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Commodore 64's New Flip Phone Skips Android for Linux-Based Sailfish OS (feed.itsfoss.com)

submitted 1 day ago by cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Summzashi@lemmy.world 40 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This is an advertisement

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 36 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

That's a bit far, isn't it?

Let's see what the article actually says...

Making Flip Phones Great Again
The Specs
Get Yours

This is an advertisement.

[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"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 4 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They probably think their audience is here and they've been spamming this place so much, it's insane.

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 3 points 17 hours ago

I have itsfoss in my RSS feed mostly to keep an eye on the FOSS community news in general, but will agree most of their articles seem to lean quite heavily into soft endorsing certain brands.