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The Trump organization jumped in the smartphones sector on June 16, announcing a gold shade of $ 499 phone and a mobile phone planProclaiming on the Trump Mobile website, this device would be “designed and built in the United States”. This is an assertion that many experts were skeptical. Now, a little over a week later, the site dropped this phrasing.
Instead, a new wording on Mobile Trump “American Hands” and “American Values” cottage but avoids claiming the phone, called T1, will be manufactured in the United States.
The original statement Stay unchanged on Trump.com, without offering additional details.
But given the realities of the supply chain, it was clear from the start that at least certain components of the phone should come from another country, such as China. The Trump administration focused on the fact that more manufacturing takes place in the United States, especially Push Apple to build iphones here.
A representative of Trump Mobile did not respond to a request for comments.
A banner on Trump Mobile.com who said “made in the USA” has now disappeared. But other statements proclaim that the telephone is “proudly American” as well as “designed with American values in mind”. A title reads as follows: “Americanhead design”.
“The T1SM phone is not only powerful – it is given life here in the United States. With American hands behind each device,” said the site. It is not explained what it specifically means with regard to the manufacturing of the phone.
Expert: “ completely impossible ” to make a phone completely in us
Francisco Jeronimo, vice-president of International Data Corp., last week said to CNBC Whether the phone could not be assembled or completely manufactured in the United States. “It’s quite impossible,” he said.
Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons, said at the time that the company would built phones in the United States, but not immediately.
“Finally, all phones can be built in the United States of America,” he said in an interview Quoted by Wired Magazine.
Trump Mobile will offer a service via AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile.
Meanwhile, the Trump phone put another phone, the Liberty Telephone manufactured by independent purism of the phone manufacturerunder the spotlight. The founder of Purism, Todd Weaver, told Cnet last week that Liberty Phone was sold with the label “Made in USA Electronics”, a qualified claim under the rules of the Federal Trade Commission. Weaver expressed his doubt that the Trump T1 phone will meet the same standards.
President Trump said he would impose a 25% price on all smartphones not manufactured in the United StatesWho seems to include the phone offered by his own family.
Some details are confusing
CNET editor -in -chief Mike Sorrentino noted that the Trump phone site I went to live with many errors and omissions.
He does not lists a processor. The storage and memory specifications are mixed, listing RAM as 12 GB of storage and memory as 256 GB of internal storage. The site mentions an “AMOLED screen in Punch-Hole”, which Sorrentino Note does not exist, using the term to refer to the space for the front camera. Two separate sizes are given to display the phone. The site refers to a “5,000 mAh life camera”, but that seems to mean the battery. The confusion of the battery camera has been corrected.
Meanwhile, the press release from the phone says it will be published In August, But the website initially said September. Now this has also been changed in “later this year”.
Label of the Gulf of Mexico on the map
The Mobile Trump site was launched with a card showing its coverage area, but this card was removed after people online noticed that the card had used the name of the Gulf of Mexico for the body of the Water that Trump calls the Gulf of America.
Reuters examined The website code and noted that the site seemed to use T-Mobile network data for the coverage card and that the company uses the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
The Trump mobile phone plan is at $ 47.45 per month because Donald Trump was both 45th and 47th president.
Trump announced the Change of names in the Gulf of America The day of the January inauguration. He also changed the name of Mountain Denali from Alaska to Mount McKinley. The Associated Press said that it would not use the name of the Gulf of America for the body of water.
A phone with a TV plan?
The press release promises that the telephone plan comes with “TV services, including virtual medical care, mental health support and easy order and delivery for prescription drugs”.
Don Hendrickson, a spokesperson for Trump Mobile, confirmed during the launch that the TV services were included in the plan. As New York Times notesWe do not know how a telephone plan of $ 47 per month could afford to cover visits and drugs remotely.
The Trump mobile site says the TV program will require users to register with a third -party supplier, Doctrity.
The trend of the celebrity phone
The new offers from Trump Mobile can receive a lot of advertising due to the high -level presence of the president and social media, but a wireless executive said that it was unlikely to create a major disturbance for other wireless operators.
“The wireless American market exceeds $ 300 billion a year, and this is not a zero -sum game. New entrants like Trump Mobile or Smartless generally work as mobile virtual network operators using infrastructure of the three large ones,” said US Mobile CEO Ahmed Khattak. Khattak’s company served a million wireless customers and ranked high Among CNET wireless phone plans.
“They can carve a niche based on the brand or the loyalty of the public, but that does not fundamentally change the economy or the scale of the advantages of the larger MVNOs or the three large transporters,” he said.
Khattak does not think that Trump’s new effort is a conflict of interest or presents a regulatory conflict because the president has the power to appoint the commissioners of the FCC.
“The FCC is an independent agency,” he says. “The commissioners are appointed by the president but confirmed by the Senate, and the FCC is not involved in the trade agreements or the MVNO trade launches.”
The American CEO of mobile also does not believe that the new company represents a new wave of wireless celebrities approvals.
“If anything, that time is behind us,” he said. “Mint Mobile is often considered a story by Ryan Reynolds, but the reality is that his ultra mobile parent company was already the fastest growth in America well before joining.”
Khattak added: “Most MVNOs of celebrities do not last because wireless is an intense business operational with tight margins. This is not the next tendency of tequila or podcast.”
Trump phones with instant pots, snow globes
The Trump organization is a holding company for the president’s commercial interests. According to Reuters, the president declared a value of $ 600 million in income from various transactions and projects, including Crypto Coins, a sector of activity its administration was optimistic.
Recently, the The Semafor information site reported This Instant Pot Kitchen Appliances company will offer a collaboration “45/47”, marking the articles with these figures and the Slogan “Make America Great Again” of the president. SEMAFOR also indicated that the table company and the Chinese company Lenox had offered a range of products related to Trump, including snow globes and dishes with the president’s face.
