With a retro look and T9 texting, the Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone taps into the nostalgic yearning for simpler days. It can run Spotify and Uber, but Instagram is blocked.

The next gadget to bear the storied Commodore branding will be a flip phone. The Commodore Callback 8020 takes advantage of reinvigorated interest in dumb phones. Although Commodore’s phone has ...

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Commodore's Callback 8020 is a $499 digital detox flip phone that blocks social media at the system level. No Instagram, no browser — here's what it does instead.

A refreshing direction for a price change.

This is a device that wants to take you away from screens as much as possible. Commodore is making a phone that isn't a ...

DOVER, Del., June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Commodore today announced a mobile phone with no social media, no email, no browser, and no apologies. Arriving later this year, the Commodore Callback 8020 ...

The Commodore Callback 8020 is a nostalgic rejection of modern smartphones.

When people talk about the most influential names in the history of personal computers, you usually hear about Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Gordon Moore, Andy Grove, and so ...

Although the PET is most likely the more well-known of Commodore’s early computer systems, the KIM-1 (Keyboard Input Monitor) single board computer was launched a year prior, in 1976. It featured not ...

Looks like the internet thought it was overpriced. Commodore announced its $499 Callback 8020 flip phone a couple of weeks ago, and apparently ...

Once upon a time, you might have developed for the Commodore 64 using the very machine itself. You’d use the chunky old keyboard, a tape drive, or the 1541 disk drive if you wanted to work faster.