Trump Phone Teardown Exposes Gold-Painted Phone As A Recycled HTC Handset
The long overdue Trump Mobile T1 has finally been stripped down, and we were wrong: it's not T-Mobile's REVVL 7 Pro 5G, but something no less... unimpressive? A detailed teardown by the good folks at iFixit have confirmed that the device built with "American values" is almost entirely an identical, albeit gold-painted, clone of a Chinese smartphone from 2024, the HTC U24 Pro.
iFixit's investigation began non-destructively with a Lumafield industrial CT scanner, which quickly exposed the truth. The internal layout, chip placement, and screw patterns of the T1 matched the HTC hardware trace for trace. Once inside, the site's technicians successfully swapped the mainboards between the two phones, proving that the T1 operates on the exact same architecture as its Taiwanese-branded counterpart. Both devices run on a Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 3processor and feature matching 6.8-inch curved displays. The components are universally sourced from international factories, predominantly located...
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