Callback 8020 is the first smartphone launched by Commodore. This is a device that purposely blocks social networking apps and the internet, all the places where you can get lost for hours. The goal is to reduce the time spent with a smartphone in hand without cutting users off from the world.
THEThe Commodore 64 has a place of honor in the history of computing. According to a number of estimates, the number of units sold as of 1982 has exceeded quota 12 million. Other estimates go as high as 17 million. In any case according to Guinness World Records it is the best-selling PC in the history of computing. Commodore International closed in 1994. Now the brand is back, it has been acquired by a YouTuber known as Christian Simpsonknown on the web as Peri Fracticand launched a smartphone. Sure, maybe the market is a little saturated but at least this isn’t the usual one tablet with rounded edges with the screen on one side and the cameras on the other.
The smartphone launched by Commodore is called Callback 8020. The clamshell design does not include a folding screen, a solution adopted in recent years by other smartphone models such as Samsung’s Z Flip line or Motorola’s Razr. It’s a old fashioned clamshell designwhere the upper part is occupied by the screen, the lower part by the device keys. On the back there is just a camera and a small screen retro design where you can just read the time, date and some information about the battery. The camera doesn’t look bad: it has 48MP and is created in collaboration with Sony.
What Commodore’s first smartphone can do
Commodore’s claim is quite clear. “Social Media? Blocked. Browsers? Blocked. Life? Unblocked.” The idea is to create a smartphone that still allows its users to survive. In recent years the trend of dumbphonephones with very simple features that are used to do a bit of digital detox. We’ve also seen sales of older flip phones rise. Commodore’s idea is a little different: the goal is to create one functional smartphone which reduces addiction to social media and the time spent using the device in general.
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Callback 8020 It is based on the Android system and is compatible with most apps on the PlayStore. Obviously there are among these Telegram And WhatsApp. To be clear: Google Maps works well. The idea is precisely to eliminate any app in which it is possible to get lost, favoring those that we open only when we need to complete a specific task. The smartphone starts from 351 eurosin its basic version. But it also comes to 590 euros. Perhaps the price doesn’t help: for these figures we are actually in the neighborhood of an excellent mid-range smartphone.
