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Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers
Commodore's Call Back 8020 is a phone “where the customer is not the product."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/commodores-newest-gadget-is-a-flip-phone-that-blocks-social-media-and-browsers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
A closed Callback 8020 flip-phone in the “BASIC Beige” style. It sits next to some books, a keyboard, and a vintage Commodore Model 1702 CRT video monitor, often used with Commodore 64 computers.
A phone that dictates which software you're allowed to install on your own hardware? No thanks. I'm not interested in going back to the bad old days.
@arstechnica I could totally see getting one for my mother.
@arstechnica people can be really awesome sometimes.There may be hope for us yet. 🙂✊
@arstechnica it's an interesting idea, although I am wondering about the implementation given the login flow of many applications.
No small number seem to want to redirect you to a web browser to handle things like FIDO2 or OAuth flows, which then returns back to the app via an intent/url scheme?
@arstechnica "newest gadget" sounds so ironicly here
@arstechnica and it runs #SailfishOs under the hood!
@arstechnica ShutUpAndTakeMyMoney.gif
@arstechnica Commodore exists?!?!
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