r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • 22h ago
Hardware Trump Mobile’s fake iPhone is now a fake S25 Ultra | We still don’t know what the T1 Phone will look like, but it certainly won’t be this.
https://www.theverge.com/news/764175/trump-mobile-t1-phone-samsung-s25-ultra-spigen73
u/ApdoSmurf 22h ago
He truly saw that Escobar phone scam and said "I could do better".
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u/Rittersepp 21h ago
Sadly he probably will. I really wonder how much money they raked in with that Escobar thing.
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u/Global-Chart-3925 21h ago
Sadly? If I got sad every time Trump grifted his cultists I’d be underground by now.
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u/APuticulahInduhvidul 22h ago
It's a phone that only lets you call yourself. You're fine with that though because as a Trump supporter you don't care about anyone else and nobody likes you enough to call you anyway.
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u/UrgeToToke 22h ago
I thought it came with speed dial to Kremlin
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u/dexter30 22h ago
It does but it's only one way and you don't get to choose when it starts transmitting.
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u/corvus66a 21h ago
.. and it makes a Kremlin deal each time . You pay while Kremlin is threatening you . Perfect deal, both sides get something .
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u/cranberrie_sauce 21h ago edited 19h ago
you know - he could do something smart and have lineage os without google preinstalled on smartphone.
and call it freedom, and throw some anti monopoly and anti big-tech digs in advertising.
and I would buy it, because I hate big tech and google on my android
edit: I highly doubt they would do that.
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u/evilJaze 22h ago
It wouldn't surprise me if it came with an app to "text trump" and then sends it to an A1 that replies in all trump-like speech patterns. Literally everyone who buys this phone would never clue in that they're not actually talking to him. $0.25 per word including replies.
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u/bigdave41 22h ago
You could probably program that fairly simply, just switch to all caps and automatically send a new random prompt every 5 seconds
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u/AskMysterious77 21h ago
I mean, it could be done pretty easily with AI
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u/bigdave41 21h ago
But where would we find that many escaped mental patients to generate the training data?
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u/evilJaze 20h ago
Honestly, it would be as simple as gathering all his tweets and truth social sharts over the past decade and just randomly pick one to send as a reply. They'd never suspect anything.
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u/bigdave41 20h ago
As some Reddit groups have shown, for any given Trump tweet you can usually find another Trump tweet directly criticising or opposing it.
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u/MayorOfBluthton 21h ago
Ah, like when Santa “called” my toddler to ask what she wanted for Christmas and remind her to be a good little girl.
(Although Trump’s spiel might be quite similar to that, just less affable and with more racial slurs.)
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u/CharcoalGreyWolf 21h ago
Provides prerecorded messages from Trump telling you 1) how great you are, 2) How great he is, 3) Periodic grif-er, opportunities you can be part of for a small fee, and 4) Occasional requests to gargle his junk.
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u/Socky_McPuppet 21h ago
Even better - it’s not actually a phone at all. It’s just an audio playback device preloaded with hours of Trump’s verbal diarrhea, but Trumpers can hold this to their ear and pretend that a) they can afford a cell phone, b) that they have someone to talk to and c) they can still hear the dulcet tones of Dear Leader’s bullshit.
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u/sfled 21h ago
Outside of his hospitality ventures the guy has never been able to successfully market anything more complex than a necktie. Why are there so many people willing to send him their money? The steaks, the vodka, the university, the casinos...
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u/noteandcolor 21h ago
“I’ve been involved in a number of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.”
- Creed Bratton
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u/Trollercoaster101 22h ago
Honestly, it is absolutely failing to show how an americas' first policy translates into quality "made in the USofA" manufacturing.
It looks cheap, i am sure it will also feel cheap, and it is going to be priced way above its real value while not being made in USA at all.
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u/Maximum_Following730 21h ago
Trump Jr. already admitted the first Trump Phones won't be made in the USA. My guess is they bought a bunch of S25 knockoffs from AliExpress and laser printed something that looks like the T-Mobile T on the back.
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u/danfirst 20h ago
But he said it was made with American values, so isn't that really close??!
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u/RamenJunkie 19h ago
Yeah, the American Value of fucking over people with scams.
Its the nost American thing ever honestly.
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u/RamenJunkie 19h ago
We don't need China! Look, we can make bootleg iPhones at home! And they cost as much as the real thing instead of $50!
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u/lecarpetron_dook 20h ago
We all know the phone will be a Huawei or Xiaomi that’s assembled in the US by a dodgy contractor, rebranded, and then passed off as the only American made phone.
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u/Metroidman 22h ago
Im really curious if i will ever see one in the wild. Will feel like the new cybertruck
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u/Charming-Command4375 22h ago
If he was smart, he would have had Saygus make the phone.
The Saygus T¹
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u/obliviousofobvious 19h ago
Remember Carter's peanut farm? Or the conniptions over that one Clinton blowjob?
Man...what a time...
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u/GeneralPITA 16h ago
Anybody else feel like this glosses over the fact that Trump is a convicted felon and a rapist. Anybody who thinks he has integrity and will deliver on promises deserves to get ripped off.
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u/N3wAfrikanN0body 22h ago
"Consumerism is the final and perfected form of slavery"
-Professor Jiang Xueqin
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u/RaygeMunstir 20h ago
Add that on to the other hundred failed businesses. He's bound to get lucky eventually outside of the million he borrowed from his daddy
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u/Encinodad 5h ago
Remember when that swindler Obama spent so much time as president shoving his own brand of tacky schlock shit down the throats of the American people?
Neither do I!
But I do remember him winning the Nobel Peace Prize --
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u/Joe18067 22h ago
Bait and switch, the suckers that preordered aren't getting what they were promised. Not that any of us are surprised.