Against all expectations, the T1 is actually well priced when compared to the equivalently specced 512GB U24 Pro, and the only things you give up are the 60W fast charging and your dignity.
lol
Another great snip:
a phone designed in China, made in China, with the vast majority of parts sourced from China. I’m failing to find any stirring of American pride within me. I’ve certainly felt it before, so I can confirm that it is absent at this time.
HTC probably gave him a discount not to attach their name
So just the fast charging then. I don’t think anyone seriously buying this to use has any of the other thing left to give up.
Did people genuinely think they had created a bespoke bit of hardware? Wow.
That a bunch of idiots bought it to begin with should be telling enough.
The idiocy never ceases to amaze me. Just when I think I’ve seen it all, they find a new and ridiculous way to exhibit it.
I’m surprised it’s a gold painted HTC phone from two years ago (good quality even if probably HTC had a warehouse full of unsold inventory that they were happy to repaint at huge discount) and not the cheapest shit that you can find on Alibaba with a soc from a decade ago and the ROM already preloaded with malware.
The validity of the “Assembled in the USA” markings aside, the big question for many is why can’t a smartphone be made in the US? Again, there are lots of reasons but the big ones are the absence of the necessary manufacturing base, the lack of expertise in the labour pool, and cost. Bringing any part of the production line to the US, even the simpler non-electronic components like the chassis and the back cover, would put upward pressure on the price of the final product.
And say what you will about the T1, but let’s give credit where it’s due. Trump Mobile aren’t gouging their fanbase…not yet anyway. Against all expectations, the T1 is actually well priced when compared to the equivalently specced 512GB U24 Pro, and the only things you give up are the 60W fast charging and your dignity.
I am surprised it is actually a clone of something people have heard of. I was expecting something on the level of what you can get for $50 at Walmart.
It’s not even a clone, it’s literally a rebadged HTC
What, anyone actually expected Drumpf to put in any effort? 🤣
He didn’t even paint it himself?
Also has the wrong number of stripes on the flag.
I’m shocked that it’s real.
LOL $460 and two years old.
wait. it’s a real functioning phone?
I love it when conservatives get fleeced, but not when their money goes to felon rapist pedophiles that use it to harm America.
That’s not possible. Trump said there is no such thing as gold paint. That’s why everything in the oval office is real gold.
Eh, it seems like a nothingburger TBH.
On the 2026 Scam Scale ™, rebranding a 2024 phone as flipping it for $500 is… not even that high?
Gestures at Polymarket advertising on the White House lawn
Yeah, HTC, you know the company from Hawaii-Texas-California, good ol stuff made in the US, from fair payed american workers!!
Honestly didn’t expect the frame to be fully gold coloured. I’m curious if HTC just makes them for Dump Mobile from old parts.
Sounds like HTC paid ODM to design it, and ODM tweaked some cosmetics for the Trumps.
