Who is really behind the Trump Mobile T1 phone?

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In lawsuit you missed it, the Trump Organization announced yesterday that it plans to merchandise a $499 Trump-branded, "built successful the United States" phone aboriginal this year. A spokesperson for the Trump Organization doubled down connected this assertion to The Wall Street Journal, saying "manufacturing for the caller telephone volition beryllium successful Alabama, California and Florida."

But unless the enactment has someway hidden an full home mobile instrumentality proviso concatenation close nether our noses, this is virtually impossible. The T1 Phone, arsenic it's called, lists immoderate decent midrange specs similar a 6.8-inch OLED 120Hz refresh complaint screen. Offering it for $500 arsenic soon arsenic this fall? That would instrumentality a miracle. Case successful point: a institution called Purism makes a instrumentality called the Liberty Phone, which sources galore of its parts from US companies and assembles it here. The cost? $2000, and you won't find thing arsenic luxurious arsenic an OLED sheet there.

More apt the T1 volition beryllium a achromatic statement instrumentality with astir oregon each of its accumulation handled by a Chinese ODM, oregon archetypal plan manufacturer. These twelve oregon truthful companies are liable for as overmuch arsenic 44 percent of smartphone shipments globally, mostly handling fund models portion OEMs …

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