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

Ars Technica · Jun 16, 2026, 9:00 AM · Also reported by 4 other sources

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) You Tube 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. Simpson said the price was “in the low seven figures.” 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

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