New day, new grift.
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I'm calling it, it won't come out. I just doubt it will happen.
If it does, it's a rebranded phone wrapped in fake gold leaf, like the Pablo Escobar phone. https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-phone-from-pablo-escobars-brother-is-just-a-galaxy-fold-covered-in
Don’t miss the fine print.
*phones not made in the USA
Did anyone read the TOS and such? Holy shit! So many red flags.
$47
Too high. Tello is $25 for Unlimited in the states and is also an MVNO, and not owned by fascists(at least not openly).
Not only is it survailance tech, not that a normal phone isn't, but it isn't competitive. More trash from the Trump Dump.
Is $47 considered a good deal in the states nowadays? Before I left (2015) I was paying about $80/month.
Now I'm in the Netherlands and I pay $7/month. I don't remember what my plan is but it's something like 8gb data and more minutes/SMS than I could ever use.
Cell/internet/TV plans are a total racket in the US.
I pay for a year at once, so I only pay $15 per month for unlimited talk/text and 5 GB of mobile data. Mint is the carrier I use
Nah, I pay about $25 a month for unlimited talk, text, and 35 GB of high speed data before being dropped from priority. It helps its a MVNO, which is the term for companies that use the networks and infrastructure of the big 3 cellular telecomms without needing to physically maintain them.
Not really. I'm on Visible Wireless prepay and pay $25/month for unlimited data, including unlimited hotspot (rate limited at 5 mb/s on the hotspot).
If it's a post-pay plan, then it might be competitive, as the rates are around what you remember for those. Since they're talking about a $500 phone instead of "free with plan," I'm assuming it's prepaid where you have to buy the phone separately.
Edit: okay, read the article and it's prepaid. It's not a good value and is easily beat my several existing services.
Why do we need celebrity owned cell carriers? This article makes it sound like a bad thing Ryan Reynolds’s exited Mint, but at least the stars of arrested development still have a cell provider.
I mean WTF, I like that there is competition but what the fuck is wrong with us that we prefer celebrity endorsement to actual features, value, longevity, etc.
I know it’s a bigger question than what I’m asking but this is all part of the rot that our economy is experiencing. All vibes, all promises, all scams, this country runs on nothing but grift.
I know a maga grandma that will probably buy into this.
The Trump-branded T1 Phone will apparently be made in America.
I laughed so hard I peed myself
Thank you for this gif
"It's all computer"
That’s going to have a wider back door than an onlyfans model.
I can't wait to see those people buy them and then complain about them.
Is this
Phone service under the direct control of the President of the United States of America 🦋
Small government?
small government
I think they want to aerosolize it. I swear you can't understand the ruling class without reading 'snow crash'.
And is this "small government" in the room with us right now?
[Glances nervously at devices]
Yes. Soon it will be small enough to fit inside your blood.
Make gold gross again.
Biometals are way cooler anyways. Copper? Zinc? Cobalt? Molybdenum? Iron? Tin? Manganese?
All these are essential to our life and provide actual use compared to the utter lifeless and obsolete gold that only serves greed among the ghouls chasing it.
Gold is useful! It's unreactive and conducts electricity really well. Plus you can drink vodka with bits of it in.
Plus you can drink vodka with bits of it in.
And afterwards you can literally shit gold!
Eeeewww! I have never seen anything tackier in my entire life, and I'm Balkan!
Looking at the webpage, it's obviously a 100% Chinese product licensing the Trump name.
There are numerous errors on the page, from a processor section that doesn’t list a processor, RAM that’s described as storage, and the boast of a “5000mAh long life camera,” when it presumably means the battery.
If you ever thought the Trumps weren't grifters, this should clear it up:
“Trump Mobile is going to revolutionize cellphones, mobile calling,” Eric Trump told Fox News
There's absolutely nothing revolutionary here. It's a cheap Chinese phone in a tacky case and an overpriced very-not-new MVNO phone service.
I'm other words, it's just another example of how not to do business that all the rubes will throw money at.
Awesome.
That's all he's ever done. License his name. Trump steaks. Trump water. Trump University. List goes on
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This would be REALLY Corrupt if he was President who ALSO Ran every and ALL Agencies that REGULATED this thing! FORTUNATELY Trump is ONLY the President who has Lackeys who Run ALL the Agencies that Regulate this and do LITERALLY WHATEVER he says! So it's NOT Corrupt!
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Can't wait to read from which part of China this "American built" phone is made
Hey, the "building" of a phone is the part where Mercans put in those tiny screws, as suggested by Administration staff. The low-tech stuff, like fabricating doublesided circuit boards and the microcircuit and mucrowave filter parts mounted on them, all that easy cheap stuff can be done by other people to support the screwers.
Yeah, if they're not lying it will be the worse phone ever made. The US-made Purism Liberty is $2000 and has similar specs to the Asia-made, $800 Librem 5, which is already overpriced compared to Android devices.
You are not joking. Comparing a $2000 Purism Liberty with eg. a $200 HMD Fusion. The Fusion has somewhat better screen and battery; much better processor and camera. More RAM, the option of more storage, has NFC. It's also designed to be easy-to-maintain, but is somewhat thinner and lighter despite having a larger screen area. Are 'made in USA' and 'open-source drivers' worth paying 10x as much for a noticeably worse phone? (It's not really 'made in USA' either - it's a mix of US, Chinese and Indian parts assembled in the USA.)
I think that the people who believe a US-made iPhone will also cost $2k are kidding themselves - economy of scale and all that, but it must be substantially more.
3 years of security updates, ships with Android 14 and gets two version upgrades, to Android 16, which is the version being released right now. I feel that isn't the solution either.
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Grifters gonna grift
But it has "5000mAh long life camera". Seems good to me.
Next: Watch the Trump administration try to force the big national carriers to give preferential treatment to Trump Mobile on their radio hardware
I think he'll try bigger and simply try to nationalize or end licensing for the big 4.
Dude I hope it's popular. Imagine the selling point other networks could have:
New feature: Fash Block.
We guarantee our mobile network cannot send or recieve calls to any users on Trump Mobile.
You're fucking shitting me. I refuse to believe that's reality and you can't convince me otherwise.
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It’s available to preorder now with a $100 deposit
and might actually not even be real because he's a con man
Who is still buying all these crappy products? Is it all just bribes from foreign countries?
There are at least 70 million weapons-grade mentally-ill people in the USA, radicalized and stupified with decades of psychological warfare.
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