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"We Listened" - Commodore Reduces The Price Of Its Forthcoming Callback 8020 'Dumbphone' (www.timeextension.com)
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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 133 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 8 points 1 hour ago

"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.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Doing the Lord's work sir

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

Ok just $350 more to reduce

[–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What the heck‽ Is it gold-plated‽

[–] username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] XLE@piefed.social 7 points 1 hour ago

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