Commodore 64, the smartphone ‘Pet’ revives the historical brand … – The Daily

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The youngest not even notice it, but for those who now travels in his forties is a blast from the past. On the smartphone market has appeared a new brand that has nothing to do with mobile phones, but that in the eighties has proliferated among the very young. It is Commodore that accompanied the hand of a generation in the world of computers and video games.

Today has nothing to do with the old company and revived thanks to ‘initiative of two Italians, Maximum Canigiani and Carlo Scattolini that have registered the trademark Commodore Business Machines Limited in the UK. The two entrepreneurs have acquired the rights to the brand in the mobile market in 38 countries and are preparing to launch the new smartphone this week initially in Italy, Germany, France and Poland to expand later to the rest of Europe and to the United States.

The new Commodore Pet (Personal electronic transactor, the old name of the first computer that was playing acronym on Pet, the pet in English) is an Android aluminum with a 5.5-inch display. Equipped with a Sony 13 MP, can crank out images with a resolution up to 4096 × 2304 pixels and video at up to 1080p high-definition. The front facing camera is 8 MP, also the smartphone also comes with dual Sim with 4G connectivity. Among the features provided there Daydream, the feature of Android that allows you to choose the information that appears on the display during charging and a control system that lets you interact with Pet shaking.

Although the nostalgia of the past do not want to be the “core” of the smartphone, not missing a link with the old PC. So Pet, which uses a custom version of Android 5.0 Lollipop, has two preinstalled games emulators for the Commodore 64 and Amiga. Pet will be presented in two versions: one with 16GB of internal memory and 2 Ram priced at $ 300, while the second will cost $ 365 and will have 32 GB of memory with another 3 Ram.

Hard to say if the operation is successful, certainly in many throw your eye on this smartphone trying to find their favorite games. The Commodore 64 was in fact one of the best selling computer of all time.

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