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Not really, it’s a 5 year old SOC that runs Sailfish.

You want a Linux box in your pocket? Why does a flip phone factor excite you?

It's the battery life and the small size. Although it is the same wieght as my SE.

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.

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.

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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