The Trump phone was announced last week with a claim that the device would be made entirely in America, and people were rightly skeptical. Trump Mobile’s $500 T1 Phone “is a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States for customers who expect the best from their mobile carrier,” the Trump Organization said in a press release.
But with electronics supply chain experts casting doubt on the feasibility of designing and building an American-made phone in a short span of time, Trump Mobile’s website doesn’t currently promise an American-made phone. The website says the T1 is “designed with American values in mind,” that it is “brought to life right here in the USA,” and that there are “American hands behind every device.”
The Trump Mobile website previously said, “Our MADE IN THE USA ‘T1 Phone’ is available for pre-order now.” The phone was initially supposed to be available in August, but the date was changed to September, and now the website simply says it will be available “later this year.”
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The phone was initially supposed to be available in August, but the date was changed to September, and now the website simply says it will be available “later this year.”
In two weeks…etc
Concepts of a phone
chances are it will be a gold painted bar of soap in the shape of a phone … and MAGA morons will absolutely insist that it is still a great phone and better than anything you have because it cost $1,000 when they bought it from a second hand dealer that sells authentic stuff
They just need to get their grift from pre-orders as long as possible and then never deliver.
In a few weeks we’ll find out that it is the only phone that is exempt of tarrifs
Translation:
The phone and the box are shipped separately from different Chinese suppliers, and an American receives both and puts the phone in the box.
Kind of. An undocumented immigrant puts it in the box, but the delivery driver who unloaded the pallets is totes a citizen, we think.
I can’t wait for people to discover that two of those rear cameras are fake, there’s no way that thing has three real cameras
