Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers

**TL;DR:** Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers

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The next gadget to bear the storied Commodore branding will be a flip phone. The name behind the bestselling desktop PC in history came back about a year ago. Christian “Peri Fractic” Simpson, best known for running the Retro Recipes (now known as Retro Recipes x Commodore ) YouTube channel, acquired the Commodore Corporation and "100 percent of the original and official trademarks that defined the Commodore name since 1983,” per a July 2025 press release.

” Since the acquisition, the brand released the Commodore 64 Ultimate and the Commodore 64X PC , a mini PC housed in a chassis that resembles the Commodore 64. Today, the new Commodore announced a new device in a dated design: a flip phone. Read full article Comments

Source: Ars Technica

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Additional context: early-cycle stories often look bigger in headlines than in day-to-day impact. The useful move is to identify the smallest set of facts that would change your decision, then wait for those facts to land.