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TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

I Tested the Trump Phone for 96 Hours. Here's What It's Really Like

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I Tested the Trump Phone for 96 Hours. Here's What It's Really Like

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TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Trump Mobile Phone Review: My Long Weekend With The Golden T1
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CNET has the Trump phone, and we put it through its paces over the long weekend to see how it matches up with other foreign-made phones.
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    tl/dr: It’s a rebranded 2-year-old midrange Samsung HTC with a shell most people describe as piss-colored, a US flag with only 11 stripes printed on it, a Trump wallpaper and Truth Social preinstalled.
    And still only available to media representatives.

    Pretty much exactly what any sane person expected.

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      Honestly I’m surprised there’s even a device at all

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      It’s a re-branded 2-year-old midrange Samsung

      HTC https://www.ifixit.com/News/117461/the-trump-phone-looks-suspiciously-like-a-htc-u24-pro

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        This blew me away. I had HTC U11 and after that google or whoever it was bought out much of their talent and their next phones were garbage. I assumed the company died, but nope

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        Thanks, corrected it.

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      Reminds me of a scam by the son(?) of Pablo Escobar a while back where they sold the ““Escobar”” Fold (which was obviously just a Samsung Galaxy Fold 1) for $200 or something ridiculously low like that.

      Of course it sold out within minutes but the only ones that ever received their phones were influencers.

      Edit: Actually looks like it’s an HTC

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        Oh, shit, i remember that clusterfuck. Wasn’t it also with something something blockchain/web3?

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          I think they tried to make their own crypto currency

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      So it’s not made in America by Americans?

      What a rip off I’m getting my deposits back.

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        It was never going to be made in America that was pretty much always going to be a lie. It’s like the whole US made routers only thing, it’s obviously never going to work because the US famously doesn’t make anything anymore, and certainly doesn’t make anything with chips in it.

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        It’s “assembled in America”, most likely the case is attached by Mexicans in a factory that pays bribes instead of taxes.

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      So… The media bought into another Trump trap.

      Color me shocked at 6.

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        Sooo… billionaires that have always been complying in advance to Trump and fascism in the name of profits.

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