{"id":325862,"date":"2026-02-07T23:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/325862\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:18:15","slug":"trump-mobiles-t1-phone-is-apparently-still-coming-but-itll-be-uglier-and-more-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/325862\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Mobile\u2019s T1 Phone is apparently still coming, but it\u2019ll be uglier and more expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Mobile<\/a> is already failing to deliver on some early promises, according to the latest report from The Verge<\/a>. The report revealed the near-final design of the T1 smartphone and uncovered some major changes with pricing and manufacturing.<\/p>\n

The Verge spoke with Don Hendrickson and Eric Thomas, two of the three execs behind Trump Mobile<\/a>, about the company’s first smartphone, which will get a more expensive price tag and no longer boast being made in the USA. Thanks to a screenshot from the report, we can see that the latest T1 design also changed the camera array, which first resembled the iPhone’s but now has three cameras in a misaligned vertical stack.<\/p>\n

As for the price, Hendrickson told The Verge that anyone who paid the $100 deposit will still pay $499 total for the T1 as an “introductory price,” but that later customers could fork up to $999. Thomas also revealed that the T1 smartphone<\/a> will go through “final assembly” in Miami and no longer be “proudly designed and built in the United States,” as seen in the introductory press release<\/a>. Instead, the website now shows a description that says, “with American hands behind every device.” We still don’t have a release date \u2014 and now we don’t even have a final price \u2014 but the website still claims the T1 smartphone will be released “later this year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump Mobile is already failing to deliver on some early promises, according to the latest report from The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[156565,18,46143,19,155380,17,82,108688,13709],"class_list":["post-325862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-don-hendrickson","tag-eire","tag-eric-thomas","tag-ie","tag-introductory-price","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-the-verge","tag-trump-mobile"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116031907710713617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}