The Commodore is back! It was reincarnated into a smartphone and given the name PET, a name that was already used by a computer from 1977. At the mention of the name Commodore, the eyes of many nostalgic people light up, as Commodore is still considered one of the best computer systems of its time. In the eighties, it was even a leading company in the field of PCs, but in 1994 it had to go bankrupt. Since then, its name and rights have been literally given to each other by the owners. The Italians, the current owners of Commodore Business Machines Limited, will try to cash in on its potential through the PET phone.
Younger generations will not recognize the name, but Commodore was famous in a previous life personal computer. He fell into oblivion in the mid-nineties, and since then his name has lived in obscurity. Are better times ahead for him now? It seems so, because the smartphone Commodore PET no joke. Decorate it 5.5 inch screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels under which ticks 64-bit, MediaTek 8-core processor frequency of 1.7 gigahertz.
The operating system is sucked into it Android 5.0 Lollipop with VICE C64 and Uae4All2 SDL emulators, 2 and 3 GB of system memory. And while the weaker version has 16 available, the more expensive one has z memory available for files and applications 32 GB of space (both models come with a memory card microSD in the size of 32 GB). The battery capacities of the PET have been listed 3000 milliamp hours, and the resolution of the camera is 13 million pixels. The front camera has eight thousand of them on the other side. Well, fortunately, the price of the phone will be far from these numbers.
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In the United States, the cheaper model will sell for approx 270 euros, and more powerful by around 330, and the two phones have already entered the European market (Germany, Poland, France and Italy). Commodore PET will be available in black, white and beige, a color that already adorned Commodore's computers and which nostalgic fans will surely melt.
