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"We Listened" - Commodore Reduces The Price Of Its Forthcoming Callback 8020 'Dumbphone' (www.timeextension.com)
submitted 18 hours ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Announced a short time ago, the Callback 8020 is seen as a means of combating the addictive lure of the modern-day smartphone. While it supports Android apps via its SailfishOS, it disables features like web browsing and social media by default.

However, despite the noble quest for a 'digital detox', the phone met with a somewhat frosty reception online (no pun intended), with many comparing it to an elderly relative's flip phone. In our poll, 70 percent of you said you wouldn't be buying one.

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[–] TVA@thebrainbin.org 152 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

$500 USD -> $400 USD for those of you that don't want to click.

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 29 points 17 hours ago

Ok just $350 more to reduce

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"Consumers can now choose whether to add Commodore’s custom-designed Hi-Def IEM earphones during checkout, rather than needing to pay for them when they may already own a pair they love. Premium memory will be available as an option, with Callback defaulting to rigorously stress-tested “post-consumer” high-speed memory chips, backed by Commodore’s identical, comprehensive 1-Year warranty."

so.. to lower the retail by $100... earbuds not included, and reclaimed ewaste memory chips (hopefully that does not also include the main storage) now the default configuration.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Phones cheaper than USD$400 tend to have 4 year old chipsets*, so imo if they've beaten that, they've probably done well against the current market. By my standards a posture dumbphone should be cheaper, but it's obviously marketing to a different demographic than e.g. Oneplus Nord and the now-dead iPhone SE. At the very least it might be a cool museum piece

*modified for accuracy

[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Phones cheaper than USD$400 tend to have 6-8year old chipsets

What area of the world are you from? Just curious where there is such a state of affairs.

This is definitely not true for Asia and Europe. It been a while since I was living in North America, but this didn't seem true back then. Although I lived in a city and didn't buy through carriers and never dealt with carrier blocking independently bought phones.

Perhaps North American carrier requirements have changed since then.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Ah yeah, I'm west Europe. I used the Samsung A series as a baseline for this claim, as their A04 and cheaper have 4+ year old chips, but overall it seems I was exaggerating. You know what, maybe I was getting confused with iPhones always being released with 8 year old specs

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 20 points 18 hours ago

🙏

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

Doing the Lord's work sir

[–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What the heck‽ Is it gold-plated‽

[–] username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Phone? No. But the CEO's yacht is.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] XLE@piefed.social 18 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Amusingly, Commodore's statement says the [high prices were] triggered by an "explosion of new technologies" but stops short of specifying exactly what those technologies were. That perhaps shouldn't be surprising given Simpson's love of GenAI and its use in Commodore's promotional material thus far, but it's somewhat ironic that one of the reasons for the high price is, in Commodore's case, self-inflicted to a degree.)

I'm starting to dislike this CEO

[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The other big question, even though Simpson goes into some detail on this, is how the deal is going to be financed. A share purchase agreement is in place for those "low seven figures," Simpson says he's re-mortgaged to get this far, and adds that "household names who don't want to be named" are interested before name-dropping Elon Musk (whose computing career began on a Commodore). They're looking for angel investors, but there's no indication of the timeframe on any deal.

So it’s basically owned by musk, got it

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 13 hours ago

He wouldn't be the first person begging Elon Musk for attention, though. Anybody remember Elon Goat Token?

Even if he doesn't secure Elon as an investor, the simping does not look good.

[–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 14 hours ago

"oh no, leopards ate my face!"