The website failed, went to an error page, and then charged my credit card the wrong amount of $64.70. I received a confirmation email saying I’ll receive a confirmation when my order has been shipped, but I haven’t provided a shipping address or paid the full $499 price tag. It is the worst experience I’ve ever faced buying a consumer electronic product and I have no idea whether or how I’ll receive the phone.
I look forward to learning more about how terrible these phones turn out.
I look forward to learning more about how terrible these phones turn out.
It will be a bog standard white label china phone with android, a custom wallpaper and maybe some cover/protector like you can get on temu. It’s not like they develop their own hardware configuration, apps or phone os.
But the world’s best professional bullshitter wrote on Truth that it’s built in the USA, it’s not a China phone
Which American companies actually manufacture displays, ram, CPUs, batteries etc. for cellphones in America?
Trumps companies if you believe him and disregard the ‘made in china’ sticker
Can’t say I feel bad for you buddy. Count yourself lucky if your cc info isn’t abused.
You are literally dealing with known felons.
It’s a 404 Media journalist, he did it on purpose to point out how stupid it is.
Even as a ‘lets see what this grift is all about’…why the hell would anyone order this horseshit…beyond stupid.
For the same reason they put bandages on their ears: they’re fucking morons.
…because the author is an investigative journalist?
We all know it’s a scam, but it’s their job is to prove it. To prove it you have to (attempt to) buy it.
I agree any actual people trying to buy it are morons.
It seems a lot of people have forgotten that proper journalism is more than repeating what someone tweets
Journalism budget.
This person buying it might convince persuade others to not to buy it.
To rip it apart on a software and hardware level to find the backdoors and spyware. We need to know how hardcore we are being spied on when the guy near us has one.
Most low cost phone resellers have no idea what software is even running on their phones. They just compile some samples from the manufacturers SDK, slap their own logo on top and ship it.
I’m positively surprised it’s supposed to come out with android 15. Barely one major version behind.
Youtubers going for content.
Conceptually, it’ll make one f of a collectors item one day there’s no way enough will sell to make them common.
Yeah, I guarantee the people who collect it will also have a sizeable collection of nazi memorabilia too.
Def seems to be a crossover between the two.
“I just find the civil war fascinating.”
And claim they’re just history buffs
IDK about that, the Saudis have like a million units sitting in a warehouse somewhere.
In much the same way that Confederate memorabilia is collectable.
As in, “You should avoid anyone who collects this shit. They’re probably a white nationalist.”
Or you can spray paint your old iPhone with gold coloring, slap a Trump logo on it and sell it on ebay to some unsuspecting MAGA fan for $2,000.
It’s not hard to copy Trump’s signature … you could throw that on the phone and charge $5,000 and tell everyone that you bought it at a MAGA rally where Trump signed it in 2024.
If they can grift … we can all grift harder
He did gut any dept of gov that would go after grifters or hold them accountable.
Something tells me that won’t stop someone from getting in trouble for misusing his name. Straight to deportation with you!
Sounds like an easy way out of this hell hole.
As much of a hell hole as this country is and will become, there are other levels to hell that are worse.
In that case, someone should come out with a quality phone and just slap Trump logos all over the damned thing and charge $2,000 for a $500 phone. Run the business until someone tells you to stop.
Sell Trump crap … it’s all crap anyway … make money on it if people are dumb enough to pay for this shit.
Not where I was going for that, more like museum pieces. He’s really done a bunch of shit we absolutely should NOT have allowed. A president, releasing a phone, while in office for a grift. Our great grandkids (hopefully) will be walking through the Smithsonian going what the FUCK was going on in the 20’s, and one of these e-waste POS will be sitting there staring back at them.
Well hopefully he does a charge back on his card if he’s smart. I wouldn’t give his ass a dime.
Journalism doing things the right way would try this out. You investigate one thing, learn about another, and inform.
It’s like that Trump watch with the T missing. “I was expecting something with the integrity of the President”. Yeah, you got that.
Of course the phone is gold. Does it come with a stylus shaped like a golf club and diaper as well? Or are those extra?
Edit: Looked the specs. It has a headphone jack and expandable memory. How can Trump get that right and most phone manufacturers can’t?
Because it’s almost certainly an old, low spec device that they’ve bought a job lot of on clearance.
That’s an impressive amount of optimism you have there. My guess is, you can kiss that money goodbye, but I hope everything somehow works out anyway.
This is what a software developer would call a con-action error.
These are gonna be worse than the DethKlok phone, and that thing has spikes that stab your face when you use it.
Fucking solid reference
Dunkin Hills approved
It also could be used as a weapon.
There is hidden significance and symbolism throughout the device for those dedicated trumpies to uncover. For example, one easter egg is that the length of the screen is exactly 4x the length of trump’s dick.
And they prolly didn’t measure it diagonally either. Only straight. As God intended or something.
Lol, did whoever set to the shop configure it in Australian dollars? 100 AUD are just about 65 USD. Given the currency fluctuation, that could just about work out.
well i’m definitely shocked that the guy banned from operating a charity in new york because he scammed children with cancer would operate a shoddy business.
Usually he’s not even involved in running the business, they’re licensing deals where some scammer pays a few million up front to use the Trump name, which is then used to scam his followers.
With a track record like that, he’s the first person I would trust. /s
Unfortunately true. Worth reading that snopes article just to see how much fucked up stuff was actually happening though. It’s not a mischaracterization to say they stole from kids with cancer through self dealing.
Is this one of the ways that Palantir plans to do mass surveillance? I would not be surprised.
Is this the new
Latest sneak peak of the phone in action:
Parets
Maybe they meant parrot parents?
Clearly the wrong price; should be going for $86.47.
For those OOTL (like I was):
https://time.com/7285796/james-comey-86-47-trump-threat-investigation-instagram-post-fbi/
I don’t get it
86 is a term used in restaurants to tell the staff when a product is no longer available. 47 means the 47th president of the US
Americans say “86 [thing]” to mean “get rid of [thing]”
I’m an American and I rarely if ever hear this
It’s something Americans say.
On the upside, its good to see the Fam wasting grift money on business that are doomed to fail.
