Commodore Callback: at last, the phone I was waiting for?

A few days ago, I discovered this piece of news, and it immediately caught my attention. On June 16th, Commodore officially announced a new product: Commodore Announces Callback 8020, the Mobile Phone That Helps You Disconnect. They are making a phone. Not a smartphone, but a good old flip phone, a feature phone, or a dumb phone as we know them nowadays (even if this one doesn’t seem dumb). It’s maybe the phone I’ve been desperately looking for, these past years. Commodore Callback 8020 A brief history of me and my phones Before explaining why the Commodore Callback might be the phone I was always looking for, here is a retrospective of all the mobile phones I owned, from the first in 1999 until my current one in 2026. Let’s cut these 27 years (!) in two distinct periods: before and after smartphones. Note: phones are not represented to scale. The pre-smartphone era The pre-smartphone era. From 1999 to 2009, from left to right and top to bottom: Sagem Sanaga Panasonic GD90 Panasonic…