Commodore Releases Callback 8020 Phone. 😀😂💻🖥⌨️🖱💽💾☎️📞🗝📱

The recording has started. Well now, always remember Super Dave Bistulov, the tall, white, gothic, vampire alien. Coming to you from Tim Hortons, this one on Curie-LaBelle, corner of Carrefour. You know, the one with I.G.E. Extra on one corner, on the other corner, Banque Nationale du Canada, or National Bank of Canada. Here in the area of Chamonix-Leval, Chamonix-Leval, Super Dave Bistulov of the same Chamonix-Leval, Quebec, Canada. So, seems to me that Commodore 64 is releasing a flip phone, a brand new type, which will, you could have messages by social media, but it doesn't open up social media. But it does have a QR code. Hmm, it's basically a flip phone. Don't forget that we actually use this. Right now it's plugged in, it's being recharged. Yeah, we use a flip phone. What we're communicating with is a Samsung Galaxy tablet. This is where you see us. You see, anything that has Facebook, Instagram, and stuff like that, we could use it on our, whoops, we use our tablet, or we have a laptop that we take with us. And then at home, we have a desktop computer. That's exactly it. That's all we need. We don't need a smartphone. So maybe the next phone I might get, we might get, might be this one, but we're not sure yet. This phone that we showed you right now works fine. I could have internet on it. I could maybe open up Facebook, but I don't want to. A phone is a phone. Let the tablet do the other stuff. That's, but it's our personal choice. Anyways, my host, my digital host, David, is going to take over and he's going to read from ARS Technica. ARS Technica, and he's going to give his opinions. David? Yeah, that's right. Call me old school. Call me an old fart. Call me anything you want. It's just that I don't, I wouldn't want to have a smartphone or one of those square, really square phones. But you have Facebook, Instagram, and all that ----, and even Snapchat. The problem is you would be hearing ding, ding, ding, and then do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do on your phone. Now we hear this from the tablet, but the thing is the tablet itself is only open on certain, on certain times. You don't have to listen to all that notification bullshit. Anyways, so this new phone from Commodore, Commodore 64 or Commodore, is releasing that phone, a similar phone to the, whoops, to what me and Super Dave Bistula showed you. This thing over here. Right now it's plugged in, it's being recharged. That's all I need for a phone. But what you're looking at, what we're speaking through is the Samsung Galaxy tablet. It's an old, it's an old piece, maybe we'll get a new one that has bigger, bigger drive capacity and more memory RAM or something like that. But for now we don't, we just don't, we really don't need all that, uh, all that ---- on a phone. Maybe one day I might have to, I don't know. But for now, nah. If I could avoid, uh, having those, uh, types of phones, I'd do, do, do all, I would be doing that for the rest of my life. But anyways, without further ado, I'm going to reduce myself to a little blip as usual, and I'm going to read, and I'm going to open up the, uh, ARS Technica page concerning the subject about the, uh, Commodore, uh, releasing that phone. So here goes nothing. All right. So just gave you some notification. You see, uh, I would have to put up with this notification on my phone and I don't want to do that all the time. Menu, camera, hi there. Okay. Let's make it a little bigger. Okay. There we go. All right. Yeah. They're playing the music in the background. That's how we're usually using Tim Horton sometimes. Okay. AR, ARS Technica. Did someone say swappable faceplates? Well, okay. Whatever. Commodore's newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers. Commodore's callback 8020 is a phone where the customer is not the product. Exactly. We already have Facebook for that. Let's put on our reading glasses. What does it say? Sharon hiding, uh, Harding. Sorry. June 16th, 2026 at five o'clock. I guess maybe five o'clock in the morning or was it in the afternoon? We're not sure. There it is. There's the phone. I'll bet you it has to be recharged every so often. Mine does, as usual. And it's next to a computer, probably an old 60 Commodore 64 computer. This is probably an old, it's an old style picture. You see the computer books or I think they're computer books, but I can't, I can't really say. Anyways, the next gadget to bear the store storied Commodore branding will be a flip phone. The name behind the best-selling desktop PC in history came back about a year ago. Christian Perry Fractic Simpson, best known for running the Retro Recipes, now known as Retro Recipes x Commodore YouTube channel, acquired the Commodore Corporation and 100% of the original and official trademarks that defined the Commodore name since 1983. Very good. Per a July 2025 press release, Simpson said the price was in the low, low seven figures. Since the acquisition, the brand released a Commodore 64 Ultimate and Commodore 64 X PC, a mini PC housed in a chassis that resembled the Commodore 64. I guess it's a new computer, but it looks like the old, the old computer. Okay. Today, the new Commodore announced a new device in a dated design, a flip phone, a paper, you know, kind of the same as this. Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here. Yep, that's what it looks like. Except that one, that one has a white color to it. Callback. Okay. The Commodore Callback 8020 takes advantage of the reinvigorated interest in dumb phones. Although the Commodore's phone has internet connectivity, it blocks the web browsers and social media. At the same level, using patent-pending technology, the company's announcement said, the phone supports the internet-based capabilities, like maps and QR codes. Oh, okay. Yeah. As Super Dave B. Steele has mentioned before. Fractic told ARS Technica that Commodore's app store, CommoStore, uses a whitelisting principle, and social media and browsers will never get that whitelisting, he added. We've also developed a patent-pending technology that will prevent these apps, and only these apps, from being sideloaded on the device. Users can sideload nearly anything they want if it isn't available on the CommoStore. But we've drawn a firm line around any apps that drive doomscrolling. I guess when you're using your phone, you don't want to see Facebook, Instagram, or whatever. Which is a good thing. I have my 64 on the machine that I'm using right now. On the off-chance somebody finds a way to round that, we've also blocked access at the DNS level. So even if you manage to get TikTok installed, you're not going to be able to reach its servers. You have to go in and change the actual DNS in there. But anyways, why would you want to? It's a phone. It's a flip phone. It's supposed to be something simple. ARS asked Fractic if community forums would also be blocked. In response, he said that the old-school bulletin board systems are permitted, but Reddit is not. Good. Reddit, you can go **** yourselves. Since you deactivated my account, you ******* assholes. You bunch of faggots. And remember, when I say the word faggot, I'm not talking about gays. My gay friends would tell you there's gay people and then there's faggots. I've told you this before. Anyways, let's continue on. We're determined to approach this in a way that's fair and safe for everyone, and we'll be consulting with the callback community over the next few months to make this determination. He said, okay, that's good. That means, I guess it's good for kids who are 12 or 13 years old. It's like no TikTok, no YouTube. It's just a phone. Anyways, the callback of 8020 also runs the Linux based operating system Sailfish OS, which is made by Jola, a mobile company created by Nokia employees in 2012 that also makes phones. Are these still around, Nokia? Per Commodore, its phone will support over 99% of Android apps. Through Sailfish OS's Android runtime app compatibility layer, including Spotify, Signal, and WhatsApp. Really? Okay, but no TikTok. Actually, you know what? Do the same thing to YouTube because they deserve it. They ******* deserve it. ------- idiots. Commodore will also equip the phone with some Commodore 64 era games. Really? Yeah, but a phone is not for games, really. Maybe a tablet is, unless you want to play the old style of games like Gobbler that was on the Apple II Es. It's cute. It's just plain. To minimize distractions, the phone uses a dome shaped LED light that lights up when you have a message. Commodore thinks that this will be less distracting than pop-up messages, but I wager a lit up phone draws attention too. Yeah, that's true. The former Nokia 3360 3595 owner inside of me is highly interested in another attention-grabbing design feature. The ability to swap phone covers and attach a string charm to the case. Really? Well, for me, it's like the phone is small enough to fit inside this thing over here. That's what I want. Something small. And it's a flippy floppy. Okay, well, that's some of the phones I've swapped over there. Additionally, the flip phone's exterior screen is designed to resemble 1970s Commodore calculators and has a red tint. Okay, good. I guess there's the Commodore calculator. As a former Nokia user, my phone user, I'm excited to hear that the phone is supposed to let you swap covers and let you attach a string charm to the case. Oh, okay. Yeah, we just read that. I think we just read that. Something similar. For audio, the Callback 8020 uses an 8-bit SID music player, an app for playing music created for the SID, Sound Interface Device, chip in the original Commodore 64. Okay, that's good. The phone also has what Commodore claims is a high-end onboard DAC, an integrated FM radio, and a 3.5 millimeter jack. And it comes with a pair of in-ear monitors. Okay. A new Commodore. The Callback 8020 is a big step for the Commodore brand and demonstrates an interest in creating new products with a nostalgic feel rather than re-releasing retro devices. With the Callback 8020, the brand may be seeking a middle ground that embraces newer technology while maintaining some principles from the state-of-the-art modern mobile computing. This one's painted with gold. Okay. Commodore's announcement points to a growing number of consumers, parents, and policymakers questioning the cost of never-ending connectivity and aims for Callback 8020 to represent a return to technology's original promise, tools that serve their users, and where the customer is not the product yet exactly. It also claims the phone doesn't collect personal data, which is good, without consent. I'm beginning to wonder if this could be a black box. Monetized data track cookies or monitor activities. There's something very fitting about a company like Commodore, where the lights dimmed in the 90s, returning ready to enter its Y2K era, just as consumers are beginning to move back to the simpler tech, Fractic said in a statement. Why do you think I use this? This is a phone. What I'm speaking through, what you're seeing, this image, is coming through a tablet and leaning on a, let's go again, on a laptop. So if I have a tablet and a laptop, why do I need a smartphone for? That's the big question. With a price of $500 to $640, depending on which of the five colorways is chosen, the Callback 8020 is cheaper than the latest Motorola Razr Flip foldable screen phone, which starts at $800, and in the mid-range for other premium phones aimed at minimizing distractions, like Wyze Phone 2, $400, Light Phone 3, $699, Light Phone 2, $299, and Boring Phone, NZD, $499, or about $291. We'll see if people are willing to pay for nostalgic simplicity and retro-branding when shipping begins, which Commodore is targeting for Q4. Okay, sharing and partying, okay, I guess that's about it. Let's close that, come on, and we're going to close this little screen, and we bring ourselves back. There you have it in a phone, which looks like a Nokia anyways, that Commodore phone, the 8020. But if I didn't have another phone, maybe I'd buy that, if in case something happens to this. But I already have another phone, I already bought another phone, if in case this one breaks down. Otherwise, it's like, I'd rather buy something that's durable, no distractions, because I already have my distractions on the thing that I'm talking to you, the Samsung Galaxy Tablet, I think it's a 7, or probably it's a Galaxy 7, but I'm not sure. Anyways, that doesn't matter, the fact of the matter is, is that I do not want on my phone that I talk and make phone calls, I don't want to have this internet bullshit, Snapchat or anything on that. I'll have it on the thing that you see me talking through. That's all I need. It has a, and it's Wi-Fi oriented, since I'm in Tim Hortons, I connected their Wi-Fi and I'm okay, I'm good. Now I have data with this tablet too, as well as data on my phone, but hardly ever use it. The only time I ever use the data on my tablet is when I'm using Google Maps. Otherwise, I have no need of anything. Period. What can I say? Anyways, that's it. Super Dave. Oops. Super Dave. Just conclude and close it off. Simplicity. That's what this Commodore 8020 phone actually is. It's the same, similar to this one. Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here. What can I say? And in reality, there are people like ourselves, we just want to use the phone for a phone. No Facebook, no Instagram, none of that on the phone. We have it right here on this tablet that we are speaking through, that we are recording ourselves. That's all that we need. And we have also our laptop. Why do we need a phone that's smart? Anyways, but maybe you might need it, but we choose for you. We do things this way. Anyways, at this point, I'll bid you adieu, au revoir, adios, hasta mañana, hasta luego, arrivederci, shalom, sal malico, sayonara, do svidaniya, auf wiedersehen, yia sas, goodbye, also merci beaucoup, mucho, muchas gracias, much, too much of this here, tuta raba, shukriya, shukran, shesha, spasiba, dankashan, whoops, dankashan, efkaristo poli, shachuna regalum, and it all leads back to simplicity. Some people just don't have enough of that whole multimedia thing. Well, they just want to return to something more simple. I don't know what to say. Anyways, the only thing now to say is, thank you very much.