Trump's 'Made In the USA' Phone Is Just a Reskinned HTC U24 Pro (ifixit.com)
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- News link: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/06/15/1721217/trumps-made-in-the-usa-phone-is-just-a-reskinned-htc-u24-pro
- Source link: https://www.ifixit.com/News/117789/teardown-confirms-the-trump-phone-is-a-gold-painted-htc-u24-pro
> The heavily promoted, [2]$499 T1 "Trump Phone" was originally said to be "Made in the USA" and ship in September 2025. Later, that was [3]downgraded to "Assembled in the USA." Given the Trump Organization's lack of engineering or supply chain expertise, many assumed the "T1" would just be a private-label phone made by someone else. After [4]a number of delays , the first phones are finally shipping.
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> iFixit has performed a teardown and concluded that the [5]T1 is a just gold-painted 2024 HTC U24 Pro -- a device from a Taiwanese company, probably using mainland China design and supply chains. [6]In collaboration with NBC News , the iFixit team examined both phones using CT scans, side-by-side teardowns, and even reassembled a working T1 using a U24 Pro main board. As for "assembled in the USA," that
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> be true, in the same sense that your phone's repairman can "assemble" a phone from a handful of subassemblies sourced from someone else. Or it may have been [7]assembled in Guangdong, China like the other U24 Pros.
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> iFixit sums it up: "What you have is not an 'American-Proud Design,' but 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."
Quinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs on YouTube also [8]published a comprehensive video of his experience ordering, unboxing, and tearing down the phone. "From pre-order emails landing in Gmail spam thanks to botched DMARC records, to paying for the $47.45 Trump Mobile 47 Plan over the phone, the entire buying experience was a disaster worthy of its own review," writes Nelson.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~necro81
[2] https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/06/16/1539258/trump-organization-announces-mobile-plan-499-smartphone
[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-mobile-gold-phone-usa-made-b2777737.html
[4] https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/01/03/060203/trump-organizations-499-smartphone-delayed-again-now-until-the-end-of-january
[5] https://www.ifixit.com/News/117789/teardown-confirms-the-trump-phone-is-a-gold-painted-htc-u24-pro
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHpP5otFv4M
[7] https://www.theverge.com/tech/943852/trump-phone-made-in-the-usa-ftc-assembled-china
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ytw85Npt8
Can't wait (Score:3)
This is a day-one purchase for me. It'll make phones great again. The best phone. Made by the best men.
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It'll get even better when someone discover that the software wasn't even touched and is sending all the user activities to CCP's servers.
Re:Can't wait (Score:5, Informative)
yes but they have tiny penises so it is ok.
Re: Can't wait (Score:2)
Are they shaped like mushrooms?
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Yup my butt is so big and muscular their tiny asian peepee can't reach my hole and ill just crush it with my muscular ass cheeks if they try
And? Thought there should be some "news". (Score:4, Insightful)
Watches, guitars, maga hats... all Chinese products sold with fake patriotism to gullible twits. Just don't be one of those twits and move on with your life. My dad bought monster cables. He wasn't getting his money back so I kept my opinion to myself. In the grand scheme of DJT grifting this doesn't begin to move the needle.
You are complicit. (Score:2)
Acting primitively, based on gut feeling, and in a shortsighted manner comes naturally. It takes continuous effort to act rationally, based on reason, and by seeing the bigger picture along various dimensions. It is hard .
The biggest mistake we've made is to reduce the derision of such primitive behavior and reduce the exaltation of rational behavior through various routes ("just be yourself", "it's okay, you're only human"). We need to keep calling this out in others and ourselves, or it will take over and
Re: You are complicit. (Score:1, Troll)
Studies show that human IQ has fallen considerably over the last decade. I'm afraid nature and/or the chemicals in the air that create dumber babies isn't on your side.
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> Studies show that human IQ has fallen considerably over the last decade. I'm afraid nature and/or the chemicals in the air that create dumber babies isn't on your side.
I also wonder if the Interwebs might be playing a significant part in the decline. I don't believe that IQ is necessarily determined at birth, and I don't think that (physical) environmental factors such as "chemicals in the air" can take all of the blame for lower average intelligence.
When we have instant access to answers, along with immediate help to do things that formerly took study and practice, we lose brain power. When our attention to even that stream of cripplingly effortless info and entertainmen
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Most notable in the last decade is MAGA, you know about that don't you?
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Some would say policing others over what you perceive to be incorrect, unintelligent behaviour makes YOU the socially incompatible misfit who needs to be corrected. For instance, I would say that. I am saying that.
Pick your battles. That should't be one of them, Otherwise you'll spend your whole life getting angry at people who bought beanie babies before the crash.
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I think you misunderstood his comment. What he said what to just move on, don't look close and don't insist on accountability. That's because he doesn't want to lose out of exploitation. He prefers just to disparage others and grift himself.
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Nope. No idea how you got there.
This isn't much of a grift, anyway, Sure, they're overpaying, but what you need to realize is that they're buying two things - a phone and a feeling of contributing to, and participating in, the cause. Valuing the second part at zero is to misunderstand human nature.
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Guitars....so you can play YMCA over and over and over.
I get it (Score:2)
That explains why with tariffs he thought we could make any of that shit here too. Someone should remind him that almost all tech items are single suppliers or duopolies and extremely expensive and complicated.
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It works with subsidized phone plans. So not sure what you are trying to get at here.
Re:in other words (Score:4, Informative)
The ObamaPhone was started by Bush.
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It's completely different, it can be no more different than it is. The Trump phone is a grift from the family itself, it had nothing to do with the federal government.
Makes sense. (Score:1)
Trump himself is just a reskinned pile of feces.
Anyone... (Score:3, Insightful)
Anyone who thinks Donald Trump is a trustworthy, reliable guy you can safely buy a phone or a cryptocoin off ... hasn't been awake for 10 years or longer.
Re:Anyone... (Score:4, Interesting)
> Anyone who thinks Donald Trump is a trustworthy, reliable guy you can safely buy a phone or a cryptocoin off ... hasn't been awake for 10 years or longer.
I'm not sure MAGA folks think that Trump is trustworthy, maybe, maybe not. What they think is that their lives are not what they expected. Income equality has hit them hard. They're frustrated. Trump comes along and tells them that it's not their fault. It's the fault of Democrats, Biden, immigrants, Africans, Latin Americans, Chinese, blue states, etc. The one thing MAGA folk have despite income equality is a sea of votes. A populist comes along and sweeps away all their problems by blaming their social enemies. The blame was never really reasonable, but reason is not needed because the blame is felt viscerally. This is why Trump without fear of retribution can murder someone in Times Square, or say that he loves inflation, or unilaterally start a new war after blaming Biden for starting wars, etc. The social blame is what endures. Outsiders might view that blame as hate, but MAGA sees it as liberation.
Re: Anyone... (Score:1)
I think most of their parents were probably like Trump, so they grew up to see that kind of behavior as protection.
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Sorry about your parents, explains a lot.
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It's not about trust. It was about 4 years of rage. Most conservatives would have preferred any Republican but him. He's damaged goods, but he had the support to lock out everyone else. It was him or Biden, democrats wouldn't read the room so they lost. I'm looking forward to seeing both sides seethe and scream in the next election.
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"It was him or Biden..."
It was not, every voter knew Biden wasn't running when ballots were cast. Worse yet, any candidate, no matter how bad, would be preferable to Trump.
"Most conservatives would have preferred any Republican but him."
So what, conservatives have no power or importance in the Republican Party. That's part of the problem, Trump gets free support from stupid partisanship.
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I'm sorry, but Trump really isn't the worst president possible. The worst since 1780 possibly.
Boiling Frogs (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes all the details are silly about this but can we stop and appreciate how fucking insane that we are here discussing the details of the *President of the United States of America* hawking a cell phone of his own company that he profits off to Americans?
Being 1 day after the UFC White House fight I know this seems rather quaint but for real, we've gone too far and as the fight last night reminded us a significant portion of the country wanted to do this because they actually really cannot stop thinking about girlcock.
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No kidding, there would be serious issues with what is happening here even if the phone was 100% American made and of good quality.
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Did a fighter last night accuse Michelle Obama of having a penis on national TV yes or no?
Notice what you responded to? I struck a nerve! The comment just reminded you how much you consider it.
Sue Trump (Score:2)
Sue Trump and everything associated with Trump phone. That's all he understands.
Duh (Score:1)
Who didn't think it would just be a reskinned phone? A Chinese phone makes it especially hilarious
Seriously, though (Score:5, Insightful)
Is literally anyone surprised at this point - at anything associated with Trump and/or his family?
Re:Seriously, though (Score:4, Informative)
The people who would be surprised at this will never see the article in their feeds.
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I *was* surprised, however, that it's one of the few smartphones currently marketed in the United States that has a microSD slot. I guess I'm also surprised it wasn't marketed as "freedom storage." So that's two surprises there on my part.
If it actually accommodates and accesses microSD cards properly, that'll be a third surprise. If not, well, I suppose that [1]was to be expected [youtu.be].
[1] https://youtu.be/7hC3uyQdQKM
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> The people who would be surprised at this will never see the article in their feeds.
That's why you have to go out of your way to tell them. So they can say blah blah Biden blah China and Kamala's phone would have been worse. So we can go back to not feeling bad about not visiting this summer.
No Worries (Score:2, Insightful)
The Base loves a lie
Re: No Worries (Score:1)
The base HATES lies. But the problem is they almost always get truth and lies backwards.
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They've been trained to believe that anything said by their bubble is Truth, anything said by anyone else is lies. Which is why yesterday's Truth (release Epstein files) is today's lies (don't release, oops Trump is in it lots and lots).
"The truth has a well-known liberal bias" -a smart cancelled man
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I love how you now talk like that's not you. And you hate lies? Who do you think you're fooling? You know we can see your account name, right?
Too bad Trump can't be "reskinned". (Score:1)
Or better yet, just "skinned". I bet that after a few more hits of methylene blue RFK Junior would be up for that!
This isn't news. (Score:1)
News would be if he did something that *wasn't* fraudulent.
Isn't HTC R&D in Taiwan? (Score:2)
Although virtually all the parts were probably manufactured in mainland China, and the the bulk of the assembly also done there, I thought the actual design was Taiwanese, not Mainland Chinese.
What was not Taiwanese was an attempt to put a fairly new version of Android together with an outdated application architecture version which causes some incompatibility issues which I am not confident the support organization will be able to deal with.
"Envisioned in the USA" (Score:2)
A more accurate a label would be "Envisioned in the USA". Someone in the US envisioned painting a Chinese phone gold color and selling it as an American product.
Another con from the conman. Nothing new here. (Score:4, Insightful)
Orange man can do no bad though. Can't wait to watch the maga's come up with excuses this time. That's always popcorn material.
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A lot of people care, just not MAGA losers like you.
Re:Another con from the conman. Nothing new here. (Score:5, Funny)
I had a friend work in the US for a few years. Marine biologist, Miami iirc.
At some point in time he went for a road trip to search for the American Dream. Drove all across the US, from the east to the west, from the north to the south. Didn't find it, though. When he had almost made it back home, he stumbled upon a gay beach party in Florida. Had a blast. When he awoke on the deserted beach next morning, there he found a giant inflatable rainbow colored unicorn, and he recognized it for what it was. Took it home, put it in the pool between the mid-rises.
And when people asked about it, he'd happily tell them of the story of his search, and of the American Dream as it was found to be - an imaginary creature, full of air, construced of cheap plastic, made in China. Never made anyone laugh, never made anyone cry, but did make everyone quiet for a while.
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You have to wake from the Euro dream you are having in order to have another dream, like the American dream. Your inbred backwater brain can't handle diversity.
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"... he recognized it for what it was. "
Something to steal? No wonder you consider him a friend. Or perhaps it's the 69ing.
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Your friend's perspective is appalling. I mean, why can't he understand the dream that everyone in the [1]eleven original [youtu.be], um, [2]autonomous regions, direct-administered municipalities, and special administrative regions [wikipedia.org] had when they sailed to this land from, I want to say, the middle of the Pacific ocean?
My apologies, I think I just confused myself.
[1] https://youtu.be/8d8EojYVtCs&t=43
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial-level_divisions_of_China
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because of the Biden Taxes (Tariff) it may be cheaper to buy Trump phone than the HTC?
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No conservative actually cared, only left-wingers did. At this point, I think his critics should just marry him. I'm more concerned about ram prices really.
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HTC phones from OEM don't come with Unit 8200 APT implants so they're inferior?
Trump recently said that True MAGA is whatever Mark Levin is saying so I'm trying to steelman.
Or StealMan in this case?