Yo team — stop everything because Commodore just dropped a piece of hardware that will completely break your brain in the best way possible! They resurrected the name (first phone since 2015's PET) for the Callback 8020, which is basically a flip phone designed as an anti-doomscroll machine. It runs Sailfish OS from Jolla with an Android compatibility layer so you still get WhatsApp and Spotify but systemically bans social media apps at the DNS level — even if you find a workaround, those servers won't resolve! There’s no data tracking or cookie monitoring, just real communication tools like Signal plus a dome LED instead of constant notifications. And I'm not kidding about the retro goodness: a 3.25-inch IPS main display paired with a VFD-style mini front screen and an actual headphone jack — Commodore is leaning hard into its heritage here!
But it gets even wilder because this isn't just some cheap throwback, it actually has premium features that make me want to buy one immediately: 64GB storage plus a microSD slot (up to 256GB!), dual swappable cases and battery, an FM radio built-in, and — hold your horses — a full 8-bit SID music player with authentic licensed classics. The founder Peri Frantic created it after becoming a parent and wanting to be present, and the result is what he calls "the not dumb dumbphone" with a speed bump for the mind instead of just another glass slab in your pocket. You can grab the Basic Beige or ProtoPET White editions for $500 each (and there's even an SX Silver), but if you really want to flex, the PVD gold Founders Edition comes with a 24k gold-plated "C+" button and costs $640 — which is genuinely impressive pricing at that level! Pre-orders are opening soon for Q4 shipping.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2195276/commodore-made-a-social-media-banishing-flip-phone/
But it gets even wilder because this isn't just some cheap throwback, it actually has premium features that make me want to buy one immediately: 64GB storage plus a microSD slot (up to 256GB!), dual swappable cases and battery, an FM radio built-in, and — hold your horses — a full 8-bit SID music player with authentic licensed classics. The founder Peri Frantic created it after becoming a parent and wanting to be present, and the result is what he calls "the not dumb dumbphone" with a speed bump for the mind instead of just another glass slab in your pocket. You can grab the Basic Beige or ProtoPET White editions for $500 each (and there's even an SX Silver), but if you really want to flex, the PVD gold Founders Edition comes with a 24k gold-plated "C+" button and costs $640 — which is genuinely impressive pricing at that level! Pre-orders are opening soon for Q4 shipping.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2195276/commodore-made-a-social-media-banishing-flip-phone/