Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts

It won't be making smartphones great again. The long-awaited Trump-branded smartphone has finally arrived, and it appears to be exactly what many suspected: an existing handset in gold drag. Repair biz iFixit got its hands on the Trump Mobile T1 after the device became available in May, and its teardown found the model is …

[The Oncoming Scorn]

Surprised

That they didn't flag up the two missing stripes on the markings while they were at it.

"its teardown found the model is essentially an HTC U24 Pro with cosmetic tweaks and a Trump-friendly gold finish."

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Surprised

Step 1 - clear the pre-installed browser history

[Sorry that handle is already taken.]

Re: Surprised

And for some reason a number for one "Jeffrey E" is saved on it so best to delete that too.

[CrazyOldCatMan]

Re: Surprised

Step 1 - clear the pre-installed browser history

Step 2, factory-reset to get rid of the spyware that inserts "the greatestest President" whenever you type in the word Trump.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Surprised

You might as well just get a “USA, USA, USA!!” Phone case or a bottle of Gold spraypaint from Hobby-Lobby.

Don’t forget the a Trump lock screen image.

[herman]

The bigly T

I take it that the T in HTC stands for Trump.

[Ze]

Re: The bigly T

And the C stands for Con Artists

[MonkeyJuice]

Re: The bigly T

Hideous Trump Crap

[simonlb]

Re: The bigly T

HTC, you were good once. It's a shame how far you have now sunk, there is realistically no return from this.

[notyetanotherid]

Re: Surprised

> That they didn't flag up the two missing stripes on the markings while they were at it.

To be charitable to the grifter, I wonder if their marketing team thought it would be good idea for the text "TRUMP MOBILE" to be the thirteenth stripe of the flag, as a sort of brand logo...?

[STOP_FORTH]

Essential software

Trump 'phone needs a fart app.

[Fruit and Nutcase]

TACO game

Given a set of scenarios, you have to predict the point at which Trump chickens out

[Charlie Clark]

Re: TACO game

Usually on a Tuesday… wonder what he gets for lunch then?

[NXM]

Re: Essential software

And a nappy for the follow-through

[CrazyOldCatMan]

Re: Essential software

Trump 'phone needs a fart app

And a dispenser that randomly dispenses brown smelly stuff when the fart app activates.

[Guido Esperanto]

A ~~fool~~ fucking idiot and their money are soon parted.

[Anonymous Coward]

This reminds me of the Obama coins.

[Casca]

Oh look. As usual the maga hide behind AC.

[NoneSuch]

Ahh, the Obama coins that were heavily referenced in Hillary's emails.

[gosand]

In what way, exactly?

*crickets*

[Anonymous Coward]

They have value

As opposed to $trump and $melania

[RobThBay]

Assembled in Florida?

Not likely.

Probably taken from a bulk bin and put in a gold coloured box by folks at an ICE detention centre in Florida.

[retiredFool]

Re: Assembled in Florida?

What I was thinking. Maybe it wasn't a detained immigrant that put it in a box, but the only US labor was putting it in a box. I will say a bit surprised it had micron memory instead of the SK. I'll be that cost a buck more. But OMG, what a mark the average trumper is. They remind me of a cat following a laser pointer.

[blu3b3rry]

Re: Assembled in Florida?

Probably not even being put in a box in Florida. More like someone is slapping a "MADE IN USA" sticker on the China supplied and packed box.

Used to do factory work many moons ago and one job was slapping our own product label on some cheap eBay grade lab supplies, complete with "Made in UK" written on it. I think it was assumed that people wouldn't notice the "Made in China" embossed on the bottom of the plastic boxes everything was purchased in.

[PhilipN]

Re: Assembled in Florida?

The label was made in the UK - so no problem. Uh ... it was, wasn't it?

[Charlie Clark]

Re: Assembled in Florida?

They don't even pretend that anymore. I think the marketing claim is "built for America" or some such wanks. But Trumpsters eat (probably literally) this shit up like religious zealots or sports fans…

[PB90210]

Re: Assembled in Florida?

'Made in USA' stickers poorly printed in China and applied upside down

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Assembled in Florida?

>a bit surprised it had micron memory instead of the SK.

A lot of memory is commodity, next week's production may be another supplier

One assembly plant we used had lock boxes of different ram on the production line and a system ran live bids against the different manufacturers for which stock to use

[Steve Davies 3]

Re: next week's production ????

Do you think that there will be more than one week of production?

If there is, most of the second and subsequent weeks will go (to us a US term) straight to Landfill.

The [redacted] who signed up for this will be smarting from the slap in the face when they discover that they have been taken for a ride (on a gold covered train naturally)

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: next week's production ????

I read it as next week's production of HTC phones might use micron memory.

[Charlie Clark]

Re: next week's production ????

These will probably be remaindered inventory bought on the cheap as the model palette is revamped, a bit like the Mac Neos.

[Sub 20 Pilot]

Re: next week's production ????

Not sure you are correct there. It seems that there is an infinite number of fuckwit MAGA wankers willing to keep throwing their money at trump and his crooked regime.

[PB90210]

Re: Assembled in Florida?

Reminds me of someone who used to work for Express Dairies, years ago, explaining the difference between vegetarian and ordinary cheddar.

They ran 2 lines, one for a premium vegetarian cheddar that only ever used vegetarian rennet... the other using either animal rennet (from carves stomachs) or vegetarian rennet, depending on what was cheaper or simply available that day

[DJV]

Re: They remind me of a cat following a laser pointer

Hey, stop insulting cats!

[CrazyOldCatMan]

Re: Assembled in Florida?

They remind me of a cat following a laser pointer.

Objection!

Cats are cute and rule the universe. None of which applies to a Trump supporter.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Assembled in Florida?

Alligator.Auschwitz probably

[DS999]

What's really funny

Is that not only is it a midrange phone, it is what midrange was in 2024! Trump always screws his supporters. Always.

HTC probably had a lot of unsold inventory of that model and sold it to them as a discount, versus the alternative of finding a carrier dumb enough to foist them off on. Probably all that happens in the US is the old case is removed and discarded, and a new gold case is installed. Supposedly the placement of a few items like the speaker grill has been moved slightly. Not sure if that was intentional or was a screwup when they ordered the gold cases.

[PB90210]

Re: What's really funny

The speaker grille was moved because it kept getting blocked with spittle during his tirades with Bibi...

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

Good old America, where obsolete Chinese technology is marketed as "the biggest thing EVER!"

[cswilly2]

HTC is Taiwanese, not Chinese.

[Ochib]

That all depends on who your leader is

[MiguelC]

To be honest, both countries argue they're the true China.

Taiwan's official name is not Republic of China for no reason.

[Natalie Gritpants Jr]

Yeah but it's not the Peoples Republic of China. Big China is called that because there are more people there, not because it belongs to the people otherwise it would be the People's Republic of China

[blu3b3rry]

Seems fitting for the trump brand

After all, it's covered in a thin fake-looking coating.

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Special Limited Edition Cover

Faux leather, in the same shade of orange as Trump's fake tan

[Chris Gray 1]

target practice

A friend in the military was looking for useless cell phones to use for target practice by the newbies. Too bad you have to pay for them.

[Excused Boots]

I wonder how long it will take for the ‘gold’ covering to flake off?

[Someone Else]

Perhaps by November?

[Charlie Clark]

You're pretty optimistic! I reckon less than six weeks, especially because the idiots who bought them will want to flaunt them at places like the beach…

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

I find it highly amusing that "American designed" means "we sprayed fake gold on it like Trump's fake tan."

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Let's hope it's waterproof, unlike Rudy Giuliani’s hair dye at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=rudy+giuliani+hair+dye+picture

[Chz]

It's not a terrible device to use as a base. It is IP67 rated.

https://www.gsmarena.com/htc_u24_pro-13138.php

[retiredFool]

Someone else commented it is a new case, which may or may not have the same IP67 rating.

[Bebu sa Ware]

Rudy Giuliani’s hair dye at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping

I thought at the time it was his liquifying brain.

You wouldn't have thought he was a New York mayor and former US DA — obviously aspired to a two bit shyster… an ambition achieved.

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Industrial Strength

“This was not a paint job,” he declared. “This was highly sophisticated material, industrial strength, that could last for 100 years, applied by very talented people.”

Perhaps he should have got his Pool Guy to do the coating

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/washington-dc-reflecting-pool

[sebacoustic]

They didn't say "Designed in America", they said "Designed with American values in mind".

To an extent that's true because _some of_ the values held in Taiwan are similar to those in the US.

Taiwan is proud of their democratic system, and they are pretty serious about their freedoms, what with the military dictatorship being a relatively close memory for the middle-aged and above.

The US appear to be moving away from democratic values, but Taiwan isn't, so far, and long may that continue!

[DS999]

The American values he refers to are

"There's a sucker born every minute" and "a fool and his money are soon parted"

[Cruachan]

Just remember when it does that it's the fault of Biden, Clinton or Obama. Possibly all three.

[that one in the corner]

Depends how sweaty your hands are and whether you are wearing a wedding ring; although under those conditions it isn't so much flaking as turning green*. It does, however, really get a lot done on a single charge!

* Do not hold near face. Fumes may go up or down.

[david 12]

"designed in China", Map Wars!

UK "one China policy": Taiwan (home of HTC) is "China"

[MiguelC]

Re: "designed in China", Map Wars!

It is. By their own admission.

[david 12]

Re: "designed in China", Map Wars!

This isn't Wikipedia. We can laugh at how people describe themselves. How people describe themselves is sometimes less important than where and what.

[Anonymous Coward]

Available now in the Trump Grift Shop

Give generously.

Gold Bless America!

[Uh, Mike]

Be seen in public with it

I expect a few bar brawls from less stupid people ridiculing the chump phone.

[Bebu sa Ware]

Re: Be seen in public with it

> I expect a few bar brawls from less stupid people ridiculing the chump phone.

Just be subtle. Don't ridicule the Trumpiness of the phone. Instead imply that you as a real man wouldn't feel comfortable with all that flashy gold - more redolent French tart than Sean Connery… but fine for her indoors or if you are that sort of chap.

Have to remember these prats suffer from planet sized insecurity with equally massive overcompensation.

Inspired by the "Corner Gas" episode with rivalry for the ever smaller cellphones until one of the women suggested the latest tiny phone was perhaps a little effete.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Be seen in public with it

Because Mr. T was, in n your opinion, less manly than you? Lol ok. That men don't wear gold is a strange twisted take.

[ChrisC]

Re: Be seen in public with it

As is your take on the previous comment, because it doesn't make any reference to men *wearing* gold, so could just as easily be interpreted as referring to men *using* gold things, such as the tacky phone under discussion here...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Be seen in public with it

Come on now, of you are ridiculing someone else's phone, you're not less stupid.

[CrazyOldCatMan]

Re: Be seen in public with it

of you are ridiculing someone else's phone, you're not less stupid

"It's English Jim, but not as we know it"

[ChoHag]

"Tremendous" seems like rather a long word. Has it ever actually used that one?

[Bebu sa Ware]

"Tremendous" seems like rather a long word. Has it ever actually used that one?

The poor journalist couldn't get "bigly" past his spell checker

_{Actually bigly is a word and has archaic meaning: in a swelling blustering manner — figures.}

[Anonymous Coward]

Next day delivery Trump guaranteed.

Then; 72hr,

Then; two weeks

Then; another two weeks

Then; another two weeks

Then; 9 weeks

Then; you never ordered it

Then; you never wanted it anyway

Then; you don't deserve it

Then; it was a donation

Then; it never existed; fake news!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, how many did you order?

[Anonymous Coward]

39 times I've tried to do the deal so far

[Anonymous IV]

> 39 times I've tried to do the deal so far

"Three times! Three times I tried to be with you..."

Virtual congratulations for those sophisticated persons who can place its origin...

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you talking about oil/fertiliser/you name it from Iran?

[Elongated Muskrat]

I was in an "international supermarket" near me the other day. They had bags of rice from Iran; I'm willing to bet they were easier to import (and more in demand) than rice from the US, although I do note that some of the expensive "Japanese" sushi rice that is available round here is actually grown in the US.

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like a decent phone but what really sets it apart is the reactions it gets from liberals when they see it. The blood starts boiling and the veins in the face and neck stand out. Hatred is a silent killer. I just smile and think they really need to lighten up and learn to laugh. This is pretty funny really, just a phone until the name is attached and then it becomes the devil's spawn. Amazing how that works. Not just with phones either.

[ChrisC]

Less the name per se, more the fact that the name is being used in this way whilst he's still el Presidente.

If he'd still just been a reality TV show host and occasionally successful businessman, choosing to slap his name across everything like this in order to extract more cash from the gullible, then so be it. But to be doing so, knowing full well that his name currently has even more sway/power/whatever you choose to call it because of his privileged position at the top seat of US government, THAT'S the real problem IMO. He's cashing in whilst *still* in office, rather than having the decency to at least wait until his term ends before raking it in based on the still lucrative position of being a former President.

[Fruit and Nutcase]

How to cash in after office...

Tony Blair and Boris Johnson are masters of the art. Not that everything was squeaky clean whilst in office

[Charlie Clark]

Yes, mild bemusement can be nearly fatal…

FWIW the word liberal also means tolerant. Where's the dictionary icon? Ah, no point, you'll only use it to look up rude words.

[Casca]

Maga hiding behind AC as usual. Scared?

[Anonymous Coward]

You are mistaking red faces from laughing til we are breathless at the monumental idiocy of the MAGA fools. So, how many did you buy?

[Taliesinawen]

Components are manufactured in Guangdong, China.

“.. the teardown suggests Trump Mobile is simply sourcing the product from HTC, which has been spotted using a contract manufacturer in China to produce the U24 Pro.” *

‘“Put those bits of information together, and what you have is not an 'American-Proud Design' but a phone designed in China, made in China, with the vast majority of parts sourced from China. I’m failing to find any stirring of American pride within me,” Mokhtari wrote.’

[R Soul]

Re: Components are manufactured in Guangdong, China.

Not even from the Trumpian levels of shameless grift and spivvery? Those were made in America.

[CrazyOldCatMan]

Re: Components are manufactured in Guangdong, China.

I’m failing to find any stirring of American pride within me,” Mokhtari wrote.’

.. as ICE dragged him away to the Alligator Gulag..

[Chris Robinson]

They told me the Trump phone was probably, and these guys were the top experts in the US ... in fact the whole world ...., the best they had ever seen, anywhere, in fact probably of all time.

And another thing..., oh and by the way it's pure solid gold all the way through, including the battery, did you know that?

[Apprentice]

Samsung would have been the far better choice.

[Anonymous Coward]

seconds or thirds?

Or even are these phones.that failed to meet HTC quality control standards and will fail in short order, where the purchasers will discover that there is no warranty given or implied, that worse still there is no fall back after any oversight has been abolished and the supreme court rules any warranty requirement is unconstitutional/ congress exempts trump mobile on national security grounds......

[Elongated Muskrat]

Re: seconds or thirds?

HTC have quality control now?

It probably isn't seconds, it's probably either stock that was produced, but demand for HTC phones never met the supply, so it was dumped, or the production line was still set up (or has been set up cheaply in mainland China) and someone has bought the rights to manufacture the boards from HTC.

[Anonymous Coward]

iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android

> iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android

So the Trump phone has the maturity of a 2 year old?

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android

That's more than Trump

[Elongated Muskrat]

HTC phones

HTC used to make relatively decent phones (around the time of the first Android phones), and they used to be my go-to brand, but their quality declined sharply. The last ones I had would probably have been almost ten years ago, and they had serious problems with both battery life, and in once case, a corrupted OS that failed updates, even those pushed to it via ADB. Their customer service consisted of "post it to China for repairs". I'm hardly surprised that the Grifter in Chief has gone for what is probably the cheapest and nastiest hardware on the market and coated it in some gold-coloured material that 100% isn't going to actually contain any gold.

[Cruachan]

Re: HTC phones

I had several even before that, O2 XDAs running Windows Mobile were mostly rebranded HTC phones. The Touch Pro was a great business phone with the slide out keyboard

[PB90210]

Re: HTC phones

He was going to audit Fort Knox because he didn't think there was any gold there. No sign of the audit, but I'm guessing there isn't any left anymore

[NXM]

Pity

If he'd actually had it made in the usa he'd have been at the forefront of bringing manufacturing back. No need for tarrifs.

Is the screen really big so he can use it with his huge hands?

[FuzzyTheBear]

Question

Does it come wrapped in a used diaper , personally signed by the fatberg as packaging material ?

Asking for a friend .. Have a great weekend :)

[Sub 20 Pilot]

People's republic.

Reading some of the comments on here, I wonder how long before the US gets renamed the Democratic Republic of America or similar. The most ironic name possible for the regimes that normally use DR ... to mean the exact fucking opposite to democratic.