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Commodore announces Linux-based flip phone with ‘no social media, no browser’ — the Callback 8020 will be available in five retro colorways starting at $499, runs 99% of Android apps (www.tomshardware.com)

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/hardware/p/2144337/commodore-announces-linux-based-flip-phone-with-no-social-media-no-browser-the-callback

Linux-based phone still ‘runs 99% of Android apps’ so you can do more with it, if you wish.

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[–] hig13@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You misunderstand, the list of apps they block are "inside" the said list, while sideloading apps "outside" of the said list is possible. So you can only find and install whatever apps they've approved within whatever app store they use to serve apps to their customers, but you can install any apk on the phone by sideloading it, given the app supports the phones CPU architecture of course.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

"Users are still able to": Means despite the block list in the operating system, users can still do following...

"sideload apps": ... install applications manually outside the app store...

"those that are not blocked": ... applications not in the known block list from the company.

I don't know how one can interpret this differently. Where does your "inside" and "outside" interpretation come from?

[–] hig13@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

You can sideload apps, whether they are on the blocklist or not. That's what the sentence* you quoted says. Well, that's what I interpret anyways. Maybe I'm wrong.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I broke it down for you and explained each part. And that does not align with your interpretation. That's why I asked you where your interpretation comes from. "sideload apps those that are not blocked" means "sideload apps that are not on blocklist". Where does this paragraph states, that it allows to install apps whether they are on the blocklist or not? Could you explain it?