The Trump Mobile T1 was supposed to be made in America. It’s a Taiwanese phone with a gold coat.
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The Trump Mobile T1 is a rebranded HTC U24 Pro painted gold. $499, not US-made, stuck on old security patches. Bloomberg says don’t buy it.
The Trump Mobile T1 is here, and it is not what was promised. When Donald Trump’s eldest sons unveiled it at Trump Tower a year ago, the pitch was a gold-coloured handset with an iPhone resemblance, proudly made in the US. What shipped is a rebranded HTC U24 Pro, a Taiwanese midrange phone from mid-2024, painted in what Bloomberg’s reviewer describes as “more mustard yellow than gold.”
An iFixit teardown confirmed the T1 is a near-perfect hardware match for the HTC U24 Pro. It runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor with 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage. The 6.78-inch OLED screen has a 120 Hz refresh rate and curved edges. On paper, the specs are reasonable...
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