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Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone

www.theverge.com Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone

This feels like Ryan Reynolds’ fault.

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Your next phone could run on Trump Mobile

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Your next phone could run on Trump Mobile

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Eeeewww! I have never seen anything tackier in my entire life, and I'm Balkan!

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!
- Looking forward to a map produced next year by some thinly veiled US-supported NGO that shows corruption in the world and America will still be not corrupt but America's enemies will be very corrupt.
  
  Americas enemy
  So... Greenland?
  
  Hungary already kind of did that.

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.
- That's all he's ever done. License his name. Trump steaks. Trump water. Trump University. List goes on
- It’s stunning how these people can say this stupid shit with a straight face. 😂
- I'm other words, it's just another example of how not to do business that all the rubes will throw money at.
  Awesome.

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.

But it has "5000mAh long life camera". Seems good to me.
- I mean, my phone doesn't have that.
  
  Hearing you can download as much RAM as you need on this phone too. CHECKMATE LIBS
  
  Idk the exact number but the camera in my phone probably weighs like a gram or so, so Einstein tells me I'm carrying about 25,000,000 kWh in the camera alone, which if served at 5V would be ~ ~~5,000,000,000~~ 5,000,000,000,000 mAh.
  Guess I'm winning.
  Edit: mafs.

Is this
Phone service under the direct control of the President of the United States of America 🦋
Small government?
- 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.
- small government
  I think they want to aerosolize it. I swear you can't understand the ruling class without reading 'snow crash'.

Can't wait to read from which part of China this "American built" phone is made
- 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.
- 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.

That’s going to have a wider back door than an onlyfans model.

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.
- trump could sell bowls of diarrhea with his name on it for $1000, and his sucker cultist followers would take out loans to buy it
  
  Coming soon: Trump™ Payday Loans! With only 470% APR!
- For the people buying it, the product itself doesn’t matter. It’s got Trump’s name on it and the money they spend goes to him, so he can “own the libs”
- Gullible conservative simps

eventually it will be illegal to use anything but Trump products
and at some point Trump to want to be the calendar, too.
edit: and that phone will prolly turn off if you record the police; and I can't imagine the amount of spying on users that that phone must do.
- Top features:
  PATRIOTIC bloatware with Mahjong
  Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock ringtones
  “Starlink GPS” on the box but it’s hastily scratched out in tear-stained whiteboard marker
- He was pissed to find out Ceaser has his own entire month.
  
  Caesar not only got a month Caesar rewrote the calendar. It was called the Julian Calendar and used for like a 1500 years.
  Trump will try to do the same.
- And then all the history books will be “Trump History” so that everyone can finally learn the history as Trump sees it

It’s available to preorder now with a $100 deposit
and might actually not even be real because he's a con man

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.
- Let me sell you a Trump steak.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks
  
  Not only am I aware but I worked for Omaha Steaks when he kicked that off.
  
  I'm aware...
- ring ring

The Trump-branded T1 Phone will apparently be made in America.
- I laughed so hard I peed myself
- Thank you for this gif
  
  No problem. It's a classic from my meme collection that is so vintage, it predates smartphones. I needed a good excuse to dust it off.

🤦

“a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States.”
Alright, so clearly this is a bald-face lie? How the hell can they claim this? What kind of made in america SOC are they using?
- It depends on how they define "built."
  The Moto X was touted as being built in the US, it was assembled in Texas with parts made in Asia.
  
  I believe the Made in USA Labeling Act passed 2021 would prevent following the Moto X approach of just final assembly, but I suppose it's up to trump's FTC to make the final call regardless, easy enough for them to issue an exception.
  Specifically:
  it is an unfair or deceptive act or practice within the meaning to label any product as Made in the United States unless the final assembly or processing of the product occurs in the United States, all significant processing that goes into the product occurs in the United States, and all or virtually all ingredients or components of the product are made and sourced in the United States.

I can't wait to see those people buy them and then complain about them.

The first 100 customers will be added to the next war plans group chat.

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.

Grifters gonna grift

No discussion in the article about fraud or conflict of interest.
- Why mention it? We all know it, and for his supporters it's a feature, not a bug.
  
  Why mention it? Because the media has a DUTY to call out a corrupt government! Because they're not doing their job!
- Why should there be? Everything this administration does is fraudulent and has conflict of interest. It's ok because they say it's okay. You are thinking more like when things were democratic perhaps?

Anyone who pays for this deserves to get scammed

Feels like the Escobar phone
- It's definitely going to be the Escobar Phone all over again. Anyone who accidentally receives one will get a foil-wrapped $150 Huawei handset with a preinstalled background image.
  
  Huawei? I think you're giving them too much credit, haha. I'd guess it's likely to be some unknown, no-name garbage, like you'd get from Wish or Ali-Express (or similar) for dirt cheap.

There's no way this isn't an attempt to wiretap people
- The 'smart' phones in everybody's pockets already are. Kind of, more or less.
  Well perhaps the intention wasn't to wiretap everybody, but it has ended up that way.
- Yeah lol the mic is definitely always connected to Palantir on this bad boy

This a is the funniest shit I’ve seen all year. Holy hell, how is this not the onion?!

I think this is a great idea. Will make it easy to identify which people I should never speak to again.
Trump really is trying to be hitler. He even invented his own “star of David” in the form of a phone.

Surprised it doesn’t have a swastika on it
- Trump like a mob boss keeps the "heat" away from him as much as possible. He'll let his cult army march around with their swastikas, and if asked "knows nothing about it". And he'll turn around and instruct the same people he doesn't know anything about to "stand back and stand by".

Bets its not made in America? lol
- 100% guaranteed. The US does not have the manufacturing infrastructure for such products as a result of half a century of off-shoring to avoid organized labor.
- I'll bet every dollar I have. Literally no one makes phones in America. It would take a giant company like Apple or Google billions of dollars and a decade of construction and education/recruiting, then they'd have to sell them for a competitive price out of the kindness of their hearts, because there's no financial motivation.
- Absolutely gonna be "made in America" in that the application of the cheap Chinese gold decal to the cheap Chinese handset will be done in America.

It amazes me the sane half (third?) of the US hasn't overthrown this government yet. Or have they fled to North Korea where things are much better?

At least this will make it easier to identify douchebags
- Easier than spotting the Cybertrucks?
  
  Depends on which one breaks faster

Don’t miss the fine print.
*phones not made in the USA
- Came here to say this and that there is a good Free software phone that is: https://puri.sm/

It's going to be utter shite
- Never gonna happen. Its a grift. See how you have to give them 100 dollars down now, get phone at later date,( to be announced) It's a scam. Says phones are made in America. We don't make phones here and all experts say it would take years to do so if we tried.

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

Hahahahahahaha wow this is real

$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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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

Yet another way for Russian daddy to send him money without anyone knowing.

There are numerous errors on the page, from a processor section that doesn’t list a processor
Shit-tier Mediatek. Calling it now.
- the whole spec list and image was probably an ai prompt output
  
  Oh for sure. If it does actually exist though, it's definitely gonna be a $40 Chinese whitelabel model.

Please, please, please, let everyone using it have the area code 666…
- The Kushners went into billions in debt (paid off by Saudis) just to keep ownership of 666 5th Avenue in New York. They might be proud of that.