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[–] kayky@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 hours ago

Use Visible instead.

Unlimited data for $25/month.

https://www.visible.com/

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I know a maga grandma that will probably buy into this.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 20 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

The Trump-branded T1 Phone will apparently be made in America.

The vintage "Calling: Bullshit" meme

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 points 30 minutes ago

I laughed so hard I peed myself

[–] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Thank you for this gif

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 3 points 6 hours ago

"It's all computer"

[–] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 24 points 13 hours ago

I can't wait to see those people buy them and then complain about them.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 40 points 15 hours ago

That’s going to have a wider back door than an onlyfans model.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 21 points 14 hours ago

Make gold gross again.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 48 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Is this

Phone service under the direct control of the President of the United States of America 🦋

Small government?

small government

I think they want to aerosolize it. I swear you can't understand the ruling class without reading 'snow crash'.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And is this "small government" in the room with us right now?

[Glances nervously at devices]

Yes. Soon it will be small enough to fit inside your blood.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 19 points 14 hours ago

Grifters gonna grift

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 48 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Can't wait to read from which part of China this "American built" phone is made

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, if they're not lying it will be the worse phone ever made. The US-made Purism Liberty is $2000 and has similar specs to the Asia-made, $800 Librem 5, which is already overpriced compared to Android devices.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 17 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

You are not joking. Comparing a $2000 Purism Liberty with eg. a $200 HMD Fusion. The Fusion has somewhat better screen and battery; much better processor and camera. More RAM, the option of more storage, has NFC. It's also designed to be easy-to-maintain, but is somewhat thinner and lighter despite having a larger screen area. Are 'made in USA' and 'open-source drivers' worth paying 10x as much for a noticeably worse phone? (It's not really 'made in USA' either - it's a mix of US, Chinese and Indian parts assembled in the USA.)

I think that the people who believe a US-made iPhone will also cost $2k are kidding themselves - economy of scale and all that, but it must be substantially more.

3 years of security updates, ships with Android 14 and gets two version upgrades, to Android 16, which is the version being released right now. I feel that isn't the solution either.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

Open source drivers means the manufacturers might not backdoor rootkit. Imagine how much money they're leaving on the table not being able to sell spying on you?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 75 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

Looking at the webpage, it's obviously a 100% Chinese product licensing the Trump name.

There are numerous errors on the page, from a processor section that doesn’t list a processor, RAM that’s described as storage, and the boast of a “5000mAh long life camera,” when it presumably means the battery.

If you ever thought the Trumps weren't grifters, this should clear it up:

“Trump Mobile is going to revolutionize cellphones, mobile calling,” Eric Trump told Fox News

There's absolutely nothing revolutionary here. It's a cheap Chinese phone in a tacky case and an overpriced very-not-new MVNO phone service.

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 6 points 12 hours ago

I'm other words, it's just another example of how not to do business that all the rubes will throw money at.

Awesome.

[–] blackbarn@lemmy.zip 21 points 16 hours ago

That's all he's ever done. License his name. Trump steaks. Trump water. Trump University. List goes on

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago

It’s stunning how these people can say this stupid shit with a straight face. 😂

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 117 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This would be REALLY Corrupt if he was President who ALSO Ran every and ALL Agencies that REGULATED this thing! FORTUNATELY Trump is ONLY the President who has Lackeys who Run ALL the Agencies that Regulate this and do LITERALLY WHATEVER he says! So it's NOT Corrupt!

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 23 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Looking forward to a map produced next year by some thinly veiled US-supported NGO that shows corruption in the world and America will still be not corrupt but America's enemies will be very corrupt.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Hungary already kind of did that.

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[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 133 points 21 hours ago

Eeeewww! I have never seen anything tackier in my entire life, and I'm Balkan!

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 15 hours ago
[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 32 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Dude I hope it's popular. Imagine the selling point other networks could have:

New feature: Fash Block.

We guarantee our mobile network cannot send or recieve calls to any users on Trump Mobile.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 63 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

But it has "5000mAh long life camera". Seems good to me.

[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 36 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, my phone doesn't have that.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago

Hearing you can download as much RAM as you need on this phone too. CHECKMATE LIBS

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[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Next: Watch the Trump administration try to force the big national carriers to give preferential treatment to Trump Mobile on their radio hardware

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

I think he'll try bigger and simply try to nationalize or end licensing for the big 4.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 35 points 20 hours ago

It’s available to preorder now with a $100 deposit

and might actually not even be real because he's a con man

[–] Usually_Lurker@lemmy.world 42 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Who is still buying all these crappy products? Is it all just bribes from foreign countries?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 50 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

There are at least 70 million weapons-grade mentally-ill people in the USA, radicalized and stupified with decades of psychological warfare.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 27 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

trump could sell bowls of diarrhea with his name on it for $1000, and his sucker cultist followers would take out loans to buy it

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[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

I think this is a great idea. Will make it easy to identify which people I should never speak to again.

Trump really is trying to be hitler. He even invented his own “star of David” in the form of a phone.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 36 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

eventually it will be illegal to use anything but Trump products

and at some point Trump to want to be the calendar, too.

edit: and that phone will prolly turn off if you record the police; and I can't imagine the amount of spying on users that that phone must do.

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[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 21 points 19 hours ago

The first 100 customers will be added to the next war plans group chat.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 24 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

“a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States.”

Alright, so clearly this is a bald-face lie? How the hell can they claim this? What kind of made in america SOC are they using?

[–] AZX3RIC@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

It depends on how they define "built."

The Moto X was touted as being built in the US, it was assembled in Texas with parts made in Asia.

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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 26 points 21 hours ago
[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 18 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

No discussion in the article about fraud or conflict of interest.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

There's no way this isn't an attempt to wiretap people

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