I haven't seen them address Nostr specifically, but the guy who bought Commodore literally describes it as a digital minimalist brand. These quotes seem relevant.
"A lot of people are trying to go back to slightly simpler tech and maybe trying to ditch their smartphone on the weekend. We found that for the people buying the C64, that very much resonated with them. So we positioned ourselves as a bit of a digital minimalist brand."
“The idea is, we want it to be very intentional that people are not drawn back to screens,” Simpson says. “Just the fact that you have to physically close this—say you go out for a meal with friends, you're not just putting an iPhone face down, you're physically making a statement to yourself and an intentional decision.”
“We're not saying it has to replace the smartphone—I still use an iPhone when I have to,” Simpson says. “It can be the weekend phone, it can be the evening phone, the going-out-with-family phone. You make an intentional decision about that.”
I love Commodore, and I believe Linux phones are the future.
For me, it'll be a secondary device. A Pixel with full AI as my main device and for business, a Commodore for personal use and days off, and a Motorola with GrapheneOS and burners for everything else.
It's a very cool hybrid of nostalgia, digital minimalism, and retrofuturism.
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i'm building a programming language that is based on architectures that were dreamed up in the 70s, CSP and Actor model. single threaded, no empty interface, no shared memory, message passing only. probably about 95% done with the bootstrap now so it's moxie in moxie. a programming language without fluff and laser eyes. and bat wings, since sphinxes have wings actually.
Cool but overpriced for those outside US salaries. Anyways it looks like a good machine, especially because it avoids Android underneath.
“A Pixel with full AI” sounds scary!
Do you mean a Pixel with a local LLM?
Can you elaborate more on your first choice?
YouTube video on this new phone
A Commodore Flip Phone. Why?
Commodore is back, but not with a computer. Say hello to the Commodore CallBack Flip Phone (Model #8020)—a $500 (USD) device designed explicitly to help us escape the attention economy and endless doomscrolling.
In this video, I break down this incredibly surprising announcement, dive into the specs, and share my thoughts on why a vintage giant is stepping into the modern "digital detox" movement. Who is this for, and will Gen Z and Millennials be big buyers of this device?
17.06.26
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