Obviously, things have changed Fast in the Trump mobile phone world. It has been 10 days since the Trump Organization announced it would launch the $499 T1 smartphone, and during that time there has been a series of confusing product changes that were originally supposed to arrive in August.
Now, according to the latest update to Trump’s mobile website, you can only expect it to be “later this year,” all of which mentions “coming soon.” That’s not the only change. The core details of the phone also seem to be so brief that for the moment, if you put down a $100 reservation today, it’s a mystery for the exact arrival of your door.
The most notable change is that the press release says “in the United States designed and built” mobile phone, not undoubtedly the pivot is separated, and it is behind in the “lifelike” American phone, “American values” and “American values” and “American hands” both lag behind. How convenient.
Eric Trump has tried to back off American-made claims in his first day of the announcement and said it was just aspiring one that could happen “eventually.” Now, the site also seems to admit that even though Trump’s mobile customer service staff doubled the original claim and told Cable that “we don’t have the manufacturer’s name yet, but they will be made in the U.S..”
The actual specifications of the mobile phone have also been mysteriously changed. almost It seems like the initially announced phone is more like a wish list of features than a locked production model. The T1 no longer has a 6.78-inch screen, but a 6.25-inch screen, and now does not promise 12 GB of RAM, or it doesn’t mention it at all.
Some much-needed technical corrections were also made – it doesn’t have a “5000 mAh long-life camera”, but the “5000 mAh battery”, the T1 gets the correct legal superscript, changed from the “SM” service mark to the “TM” trademark. Plus, thankfully, the weird promise of “front camera” has now become a “front camera.”
It’s not just the phone itself that has changed. The coverage map of Trump’s mobile wireless service has been calculated entirely from the site (now 404). As Wired previously reported, the now proven map was borrowed from a cellular service provider called Ultra Mobile and quoted the Gulf of Mexico instead of Donald Trump’s preferred “America Bay” term.
The relatively cheaper price of smartphones is clarified as the need for a continuous subscription to Trump mobile devices. (“You acknowledge that you will charge $100 today for the first month of Trump’s mobile service today and for shipping and activation fees. You also authorize a fee of $399 and a sales tax on shipment.”) And in the third part of the T1, some additional liability protections are added to the third part of the T1.
Currently, the T1 smartphone seems to be in progress. Whether it ever came through bookings and what final form it (if any) remains to be seen. We had a problem last week. If anything, we have more now.
