Commodore's $500 Flip Phone Blocks the Web at the DNS Level (commodore.net)
Under the beige nostalgia it's a Sailfish-OS handset with Android app compatibility, reportedly sourced from an ODM, priced at $500 (about $700 in Canada).
The browser block is the flashpoint: critics note a browser is how you reach 99% of the world's information, and a firewall or DNS rule would target social media without nuking everything else.
The deeper question the thread can't answer: the people who loved a C64 and the people who loved flip phones aren't the same generation, so who exactly is this for?
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