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T1 Phone and Trump Mobile Explained

What exactly is the T1 Phone? The Trump Mobile website advertises “the T1 phone” and lists a bunch of specs that sound in line with a low-end Android handset. It’s apparently got 12 GB of RAM, 256 GB of internal storage, USB-C charging, and so on. (The “Key Features” section also lists a “5000mAh long life camera,” which is not a thing. They meant “battery.” Details are hard.) It’s also gold-colored. Very, very gold. What usually happens in these cases is that a company will put a new name on a so-called white-label Android handset. That’s probably the case here, except for two small points. First, the phone on the Trump Mobile website appears to be a render. The camera is shown with no sensors, the lenses are spaced all crazy, and the volume and power rockers appear in the front view but not the rear view. Also, another section of the website shows what appears to be a render of an iPhone. If you buy a T1 smartphone today—and yes, you can preorder—what shows up at your house will almost certainly not be what is shown on the site. The other flag here is that the T1 is “proudly designed and built in the United States,” according to the Trump Mobile website. Which, uh … Is the T1 smartphone built in the US? It says so in the press release! In practice, though, that seems unlikely. We’re only aware of one smartphone that advertises itself as wholly USA manufactured: the “Liberty Phone” from Purism. It costs $2,000 and involves a bespoke production process. The idea that the Trump Organization would be able to stand up a domestic smartphone manufacturing system from scratch in time to deliver a $499 smartphone by August—when it apparently will become available—is seemingly impossible. But don’t just take our word for it. Appearing in an interview Monday with right-wing personality Benny Johnson, Eric Trump clarified that this claim was aspirational. “Eventually all the phones can be built in the United States of America,” he said. Both he and his brother, Donald Trump Jr., cited that the company’s St. Louis–based customer service centers as its primary US tie. What processor will it have? One of the few specs not listed, but an important one, especially in terms of figuring out who the heck is making this thing. What network does Trump Mobile run on? The Trump Mobile press release claims that it works with “all three major carriers,” presumably meaning AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. None of the big three responded to an inquiry about the nature of their arrangement with Trump Mobile. The company’s terms-of-use page mentions only that Trumpmobile.com is “powered by Liberty Mobile Wireless LLC.” In fact, Trump Mobile’s entire “Unauthorized Use of Plans With Unlimited Services” section is copied verbatim from Liberty Mobile’s terms of use, substituting “Trumpmobile.com” for “Liberty Mobile” throughout. It’s all extremely unclear right now what you’ll actually be getting from Trump Mobile. Liberty Mobile appears to only offer 4G LTE connectivity at best, so if that is Trump Mobile’s sole provider, as stated in its terms of use, it’s unclear whether it can live up to its claims of 5G speeds. It’s also possible that Liberty Mobile is an innocent bystander here, and Trump Mobile just borrowed its terms-of-use section. Confusing things even further, Trump Mobile’s coverage map appears to be an embed of the coverage map created by Ultra Mobile, an MVNO that's owned by T-Mobile and runs on T-Mobile’s 5G network. Is Trump Mobile woke? As others have pointed out on social media, the Trump Mobile coverage map clearly identifies the Gulf of Mexico rather than Donald Trump’s preferred “Gulf of America” nomenclature. The Trump administration has banned the Associated Press from White House press briefings due to the latter’s refusal to use the name Gulf of America. Although again, this is because it is Ultra Mobile’s map to begin with. Can the T1 smartphone really offer “biometric scanning”? One of the surprising listed benefits of the T1 smartphone is “biometric scanning,” with contactless blood pressure and heart-rate monitoring. This appears to be tied to the “LifeVitals” feature offered by the Doctegrity app. In fact, the extent of Trump Media’s telehealth offering appears to be through the Doctegrity app, which can also be used with any other current smartphone. Individual Doctegrity plans start at $29 per month, so if that’s included in the $47.45 Trump Mobile plan, that’s a darn good deal. If you have to pay the fee anyway, it’s not really clear what Trump Mobile is promoting here.