Teardown of Trump Phone Reveals Incredibly Embarrassing Secret
Source: Yahoo News
Published on: 2026-06-11 21:04
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever since it was announced, tech journalists wondered whether president Donald Trump's "Trump Mobile" smartphone would ever see the light of day. The gaudy-looking golden smartphone, dubbed Trump Mobile T1, finally landed in the hands of a larger pool of tech reviewers this week -- and as it turns out, suspicions that it was a shoddily-repackaged phone by Chinese manufacturer HTC were entirely warranted. A recent teardown by repair company iFixit confirmed that the T1 is an almost entirely unmodified HTC U24 Pro, a two-year-old and mid-tier Android phone, with a cheap coat of gold coloration. Even swapping the mainboard of the T1 with one taken straight out of a U24 Pro worked just fine, confirming once and for all Trump is selling an entirely Chinese smartphone, despite waging an economic war against the country. ...
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