It's not gold, it's not made in America, and it leaked my identity. *Save 10% off a Cloth Pro Max*: https://snazzy.fm/yqu4U6 Follow Snazzy Labs on Twitter - https://twitter.com/snazzylabs Follow me on Bluesky - https://snazzy.fm/UW Follow me on Threads - https://snazzy.fm/XV Follow me on Mastodon - https://snazzy.fm/NN Follow me on Instagram - https://instagram.com/snazzyq The Trump Mobile T1 finally shipped, and as one of the first paying customers in the world, I tore the $499 "Made in USA" Trump phone apart to find out what it really is. Spoiler: it's not the rebadged T-Mobile REVL Pro 5G everyone claimed — it's a gold HTC U24 Pro with a bigger battery, a broken in-display fingerprint sensor, and a Snapdragon 7 Gen 3. From pre-order emails landing in Gmail spam thanks to botched DMARC records, to paying for the $47.45 Trump Mobile 47 Plan over the phone, the entire buying experience was a disaster worthy of its own review. I also ran a full packet capture with PCAPdroid and Wireshark to test whether the Trump phone is spying on you — the answer might surprise you. Compared against the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE and iPhone 17e, this gold Android phone proves that patriotism and yellow paint don't make a $500 smartphone worth buying. 0:00 A phone I bet $100 against 1:30 Rescued from Gmail spam 3:42 Paying $500 over the phone 8:00 Amateur hour unboxing 11:13 Gold paint that isn't gold 14:03 Setup and a dead fingerprint sensor 18:53 Cloth Pro Max saves the day 19:30 What this phone really is 22:43 The teardown 26:34 Spying, verdicts, and goodbyes
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Based on publicly sales figures, it feels like the Trump phone was only purchased by YouTubers who wanted to review it.
Escobar phones would be proud.
PSA: the phone calls are reenactments of the originals that were re-recorded for brevity and to remove personally identifying information; however, the “script” content is the conversation as it occurred. They are not AI—I just didn’t hire real voice actors lol
*I gently open the comments*
I feel like dbrand needs to make like a pride wrap for the trump phone
the ordering process is perfect for boomers who are experts at getting scammed online
Honestly, legit surprise they splurged for a color laser printer
“I wonder if this little fingerprint is from the kid who assembled this in the USA”. 😭😭😭 I laughed out loud
With the limited amount of these phones in circulation you might even accidentally get added to a Pentagon group chat.
What a stupid time to be alive.
If you talk in spanish it will auto send your location to ICE
Dying at every reputable business (google/chase) in no uncertain terms telling you “Quinn don’t do this!” 😂
The "gold" Trump mobile phone being made of shiny yellow plastic is so on the nose it's almost unbelievable 😂
My god that account login process is F&&**ng INSANE LMAO
Penguinz0 is punching air lol
$47.45? **groans audibly**
This phone joins the China-printed "God Bless the U.S.A." Bible in the promoted-by-shady-famous-businessman club.
Even for a grift posing as real company, the director of sales calling you personally to ask you to spend $500 is wild.
Trying to trick boomers into buying a phone, then making the purchase process so difficult they'd have no chance of navigating it - that's a hell of a strategy.
That is the most insane password reset I have ever seen.