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I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount (www.404media.co)
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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.

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[–] 83 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Let me guess. It's a rebranded Chinese phone that typically goes for like 50 bucks?

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  • [–] 102 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

    Yep, apparently it's a cosmetically tweaked Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro 5G, which goes for $170 under the T-Mobile brand on Amazon.

    Eric Trump admitted it was going to be made in China, so the press release's description, "designed and built in the United States," is just a lie, or actually two lies.

    'Eventually': Eric Trump admits new mobile phone isn't being made in the USA

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    But it's golden and has a convicted felon's name on it. That should make up for the rest of the value right?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He saw the Escobar phone and thought it was a good plan.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    cosmetically tweaked

    It would have to be super tweaked considering the phone you referenced has four cameras, and a notch style front camera.

    My bet is that this is a 10 second photoshop job and the actual phone will look nothing like that.

    I mean if you do a difference blend of two of the cameras, you get a perfectly black circle (minus some blending at the edges):

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    This means that the cameras are exact pixel-perfect copies of each other arranged in that order by photoshop. They don't exist on any phone.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    The Revvl is the cheapest phone T-Mobile offers last time I was in need of a replacement; they basically give it away free if you do 2 year contracts instead of normal month-to-month, contractless services. It's what my dad uses. 🤣

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    And they'll ironically lose the lawsuit about the lies and deception of this, the defense of which will be funded by donations from the idiots that buy this phone and receive messages every hour asking for more money for the legal defense fund.

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