Trump Phone No Longer Made in the USA
The gold-colored phone, which drew sceptical reactions last week for its claim that it would be built entirely in the US, now appears to be abandoning that description, with the organisation’s website no longer mentioning it.
The Trump Organisation, led by President Donald Trump’s sons, last week announced its own telecom offering, as well as a gold-colored smartphone called the Trump T1 Phone. The gold smartphone, emblazoned with “Make America Great Again,” was also said to be designed and built entirely in the United States, a claim that immediately raised many questions.
Trump may want to bring more manufacturing back to the US, but no major phone maker assembles its devices in the country. Even Apple would have to make major logistical adjustments to make that happen. The question was how that would happen, and the answer seems to be ‘not’.
Tech sites in the United States note that those claims have disappeared from the Trump Organisation’s website in the past week. Where large banners previously touted American manufacture and the device was described as “Our Made in the USA T1,” those descriptions are now gone, The Verge reports.
Specs still unclear
In the meantime, it is still unclear what the phone, which is supposed to be released ‘later this year’, actually is. Based on the photos, experts at news channel CNN believe that it is a modified edition of the REVVL 7 Pro 5G, a device from the Chinese Wingtech. That device is for sale in the US at T-Mobile for around 250 dollars, about half of the T1.
Many specifications about the device cannot be found for the time being, and they also change occasionally on the website of the Trump Organisation. The editors could not verify these specifications either, because the site is said to be overloaded and therefore inaccessible.
