Thoughts on the new Commodore phone

This week, the new Commodore under CEO Peri Fractic (actor turned Youtuber Christian Simpson) announced the release of their latest product, a flip phone they called the Callback. And people online went nuts. Some love it, but most seem to hate it and the feedback has been overwhelmingly (very) negative. I have some thoughts too, so I thought I'd write them out here. The device itself I actually like it. I used to own a Samsung Z230 flip phone in the late 2000s and I absolutely loved it. The new Commodore phone is basically the same form factor, so I like it just for this, but it also has a few other things going for it. It has modern connectivity (LTE, Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS), a decent enough SOC (it doesn't have flagship specs, but this is not a flagship phone - the SOC just needs to be "good enough", which I think it is), and it's running the Linux-based Sailfish OS, which is a bit less open than I'd like in an operating system, but it can apparently run (most) Android apps, so…