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by abc42 4 days ago
It's genuinely small. You can put it in your pocket and forget that it's there. I'm continually amazed that people don't seem to want that.
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itomato 4 days ago
We have had that in various forms for a while now without the grandiose visions and gatekeeping.

The exact same module in fact has been around for a while. Battery is ancient. T9 is ancient.

I have a $70 Linux box in my pocket already. It runs a Buildroot distro and the only real difference is an LTE PHY.

I have lived through the Nokia internet tablet and I’m surprised this isn’t what people aspire to.

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abc42 4 days ago
Thing is, we also need stuff like Signal to actually use phones for their original purpose these days. Most flip phones that we've had so far are dumb phones, mostly unable to run 3rd party software.

It sounds like this Commodore phone might be able to fill that gap. I'll wait for the first few reviews though.

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