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Teardown Confirms the Trump Phone Is a Gold-Painted HTC U24 Pro (www.ifixit.com)
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[–] 55 points 3 months ago (2 children)

NGL, I expected worse.

Still wouldn't buy it on a fucking dare, but I was expecting at least a 10 year old phone, not a 2 year old one.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Don't give them credit for anything. They intended to keep all their money, and stiff the MAGA dummies. Then it hit the media in a big way, and they decided to get it done ASAP.

    So they found a manufacturer that had enough inventory to fulfill the orders, and went with them. Under those circumstances it would almost certainly be a fairly recent model. Ten year old phones might not even have manufacturer support. The fact that they had so many hanging around means this model was probably a dog.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago*

    The time gap between the news stories about Trump Media's terms and the release of the Trump Phone was only a month or less. Not enough time to put together something like that. My personal conspiracy theory has been that it was an attempt to embarrass the press. The phones were ready to be shipped and TM changed the terms to say there was no guarantee any "Device will be commercially released". They let that play out on the blogs for a while then released the phones. Now the narrative can be "look how wrong The Media was" instead of, "Look at how cheap these phones made in China are".

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