Trump T1 Phone

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Following its announcement last June, the T1 Phone from Trump Mobile is actually set to begin shipping to its first customers later this week. The news was confirmed by Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien in an exclusive report for USA Today. The piece also includes some images of the device and a teaser video, all of which may or may not be AI-generated.

That is a bold choice of words for a device that seems to share most of its key hardware and looks with the nearly two-year-old HTC U24 Pro while costing $499. A quick comparison reveals the two share nearly identical specs though we still don’t know the chipset inside the T1 Phone. Hopefully, we’ll get more details as the first batch of orders makes its way to the “lucky” buyers.

At least the T1 Phone’s packaging will be better than most current phones. The phone will ship with a bundled charging brick, a braided USB-C cable and a clear silicone case.

 

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After a nine-month wait, repeated calls and emails, NBC News finally received the long-delayed Trump Mobile T1 phone - raising new questions about where it’s actually made. NBC News’ Brian Cheung reports.

 

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Phone not delivered already got data and privacy issues...

 

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Phone not delivered already got data and privacy issues...

Are they going to blame someone, some political party again? They always like to blame that one country. That is the reason why they want to have a phone that is USA "made". End up, now change to "assembled in USA"

 

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Are they going to blame someone, some political party again? They always like to blame that one country. That is the reason why they want to have a phone that is USA "made". End up, now change to "assembled in USA"

Trump doing what Trump does best!

 

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Basically the same phone as the htc u24 pro

 

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Basically the same phone as the htc u24 pro

"Made in U S OF THE A"

 

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waiting for jerryrigeverything to expose the insides. And waiting for videos of all the different parts and which country are they from

 

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Rumours rebranding to HTC U24 Pro

 

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HWZ: Trump’s T1 phone hits the market, but backs away from “Made in USA” claim​

Originally slated to release in Q3 2025, it faced multiple delays across the end of last year. But according to Trump Mobile’s X account (which was only just resurrected), shipping began this week, 9 months after schedule.

As with so many products branded with the President’s name, the T1 is characterised by unabashed ‘America First’ marketing. That the phone is “Made in the USA”, however, is no longer being claimed by Trump Mobile, with that phrasing being expunged from the Trump Mobile website.

That “American innovation” apparently takes the form of a re-badged HTC U24 Pro, according to separate reports by The Verge and NBC News.

In our previous coverage of the T1, we noted that, purely based on the provided renders and the specs given, there were not enough clues to guess which OEM manufacturer the phone came from. With physical units surfacing since then, some key changes, including an updated design and the addition of an ultrawide camera, has made the resemblance uncanny.

a 6.8-inch 1290Hz AMOLED screen, 5000mAh battery, 50MP main camera and, 3.5mm headphone jack – remain unchanged.

NBC’s report did state that the T1’s box had an “Assembled in USA” label, which is legally distinct from being “Made in USA” in the eyes of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). While the latter requires parts to have been sourced from, and assembly to have occurred, in America, an “assembled in” label implies that the product can contain foreign parts, but assembly must have substantially taken place in the USA.


Legal semantics aside, time will tell if consumers actually get their hands on these. Certain members of the media have already gotten their hands on review units, so there have been at least a few T1s manufactured so far, wherever that manufacturing took place.

The Trump Mobile T1 has a promotional price of US$499 (~S$639), and was announced alongside The 47 Plan, a US$47.45/month (~S$61/month) 5G plan, with variants meant for families, as well as veterans and active-duty members of the US military.

If you’re morbidly curious about whether you can get your hands on a T1 in Singapore, don’t even bother. Despite the fact that it’s already shipping, you’ll have to join a waitlist to get the phone. Even then, the website requires IMEI verification before it lets you get to the next step. It’s quite obvious, anyway, that the phone was only designed for Americans, despite questions surrounding whether it’s being made in the USA.

 

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Trump Mobile confirms that it exposed customer data​

The Trump Mobile saga continues in the worst way possible. The company's first smartphone, by all accounts a rebranded HTC U24 Pro, which is a device launched in 2024, was first supposed to start shipping in August or September of last year. Obviously, that didn't happen, but shipments are now supposedly imminent.

But now there's another problem. Trump Mobile has confirmed to TechCrunch that it has exposed customer information, including names, phone numbers, home addresses, and email addresses on its website.

The company is currently investigating the exposure and hasn't yet found any evidence of nefarious use. The exposure was apparently linked to a third-party platform provider that supports "certain Trump Mobile operations", according to Trump Mobile spokesperson Chris Walker. That platform provider hasn't been named, though.

The company insists that there was no breach of its network, systems, or infrastructure, which is funny because there was no need for a breach - all of the aforementioned customer data was out for anyone to find on its website. Anyway, Walker says Trump Mobile is now "evaluating whether it needs to notify customers of the exposure of their personal data".

 

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no surprises here. Not ;ike what trump said, 100% made / assembled in USA

 

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The Trump Phone Is Worse Than You Think​