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by rickdeckard 7 days ago
Nice, but a little bit too thin on details to read this as more than "we ordered a Commodore-branded Sailfish-OS phone from an ODM".

If it would be more "considerate" from hardware (or even software) perspective it could be compelling, but from the infos on that page it sounds more like a "memberberry" product

(like e.g. a phone from Kodak, Sega, Atari,... built on the business decision of [product-cost] + [branding] = [potential price-premium of xxx USD])

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> we ordered a Commodore-branded Sailfish-OS phone from an ODM

Is this true? I did some research on flip phones the other week and I didn't turn up anything running Sailfish. Options seemed limited to

* custom AOSP derivatives (Punkt, Sunbeam, Kyocera, others - most common)

* older KaiOS devices (Nokia 2780 and friends)

* Nokia S30+ devices (traditional proprietary feature-phone firmware, somehow Nokia is still producing these)

Are there any other examples of Sailfish phones being vendored similar to how Commodore is doing theirs?

Not in North America, no but that's what people are saying; they simply imported the structure of SailfishOS that's used in other parts of the world.