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All I want is a small, cheap phone with a good camera, ability to listen to audiobooks and podcasts and be able to check things from the web. Things like Wikipedia, bus schedules and other text heavy things.
This is not cheap and can’t browse the web so it’s just not worth it.
Let's not forget that it's $500 because they can't continually profit off your personal information being harvested from the software.
Is it expensive for the hardware? Yeah Is it expensive for an android compatible device with zero telemetry? Not entirely
Minimalism is just a conspiracy by big small to sell you more less.
Oh, you'll love this. Peri Fractic isn't even his name. Its like some gamer handle that he's permanently adopted cos it sounds international or something.
Was pretty excited about this phone but realised they haven't actually said what specifically is and isn't blocked, and if thats configurable. I'm not shelling out that coin for very little details. That, weird-name CEO and the AI-generaged promo mateterial doesnt really inspire confidence.
We all know that Peri Fractic isn't his name. We also know that an online article from whatever website isn't selling the phone, but Commodore is.
but Commodore is.
Commodore isn't. They don't exist. Commodore is nothing further than a name out of history.
Somebody is trying right now at the moment to revive it. Then maybe something will exist again.
Somebody has bought all Commodore's intellectual property and the company's name is "Commodore International Corporation." So I'd say it's pretty much safe to say that Commodore is selling it. 🤷
Great idea, but the price tag ($500) isn’t so great.
You still can get cheap dump phones.
Regarding do this device:
If there were a way that you could have 50% more attention for your kids, yourself, and the people around you, how much would that be worth for you? How much is your attention worth?
Following this logic they could just as well stick a $50 000 price tag in it. It still wouldn't be defensible.
Manufacturing a phone in small numbers is not cheap
Sure, but is it so much more expensive than manufacturing a HMD 2660, which does more or less the same things and retails for approx. $100?
Let's be for real, the whole Commodore thing nowadays is milking gen X nostalgia for all it's worth. And I don't think it's worth that much.
is it so much more expensive than manufacturing a HMD 2660, which does more or less the same things and retails for approx. $100?
Yes, extremely so.
HMD will manufacture millions of them with partners they have been using for a decade, they will each skim a few dollars to cover costs and profit and still do fine.
Commodore will manufacture a fraction of that volume using parts way more expensive as they buy less of them, and they still have to cover r&d and tooling costs from that lower volume.
That is why kickstarters (and pre-orders) are so damn useful, as that allows you to get a start at covering those costs before you even manufacture anything.
Why wouldn’t you just get an old Nokia for like £10? We see loads of these, they get released a you never hear from them again. You may like the idea but for most people you need stuff like a browser sometimes because it’s pretty much necessary in modern society.
