iFixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe

This is the Trump phone, but it could conscionable arsenic easy beryllium an HTC. | Image: Trump Mobile

After getting its hands connected a Trump telephone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I archetypal reported backmost successful February: the T1 Phone is an astir nonstop duplicate of the HTC U24 Pro.

iFixit partnered with NBC to get clasp of the network's media sample of the Trump phone, on with a U24 Pro. They ran the phones done a CT scanner, tore them down to parts, and adjacent enactment them backmost unneurotic into a functional Frankenstein telephone with the U24 Pro's committee wrong the T1 Phone's chassis, confirming on the mode that the 2 phones are functionally identical.

There are insignificant differences: the flash has been moved slightly, the talker grille was …

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