Is the Trump T1 Just an HTC Phone Painted Gold?
CNET's review of the Trump phone found much the same thing as iFixit: It's likely a reskinned HTC phone from two years ago.
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The Trump phone has been making headlines again over the past week, after iFixit tore it down and found it was nearly identical to the HTC U24 Pro, a Taiwanese phone released in mid-2024. I reviewed the T1 phone last month, and while it worked fine as a middle-of-the-road phone, we do have some relevant insights here.
iFixit's findings match up with CNET's benchmark testing, first of all, which also suggested a very close matchup with the HTC phone:
The Trump phone's Geekbench results put it on par with the HTC U24 Pro 5G and also show that it has an eight-core processor, which could be the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 released in November 2023 -- Trump Mobile doesn't specify.
The specs of...
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