"Freedom Phone" 2.0 much? 🧐

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[–] 80 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • Costs $499 or
  • Made in USA

Pick one. You can't have both.

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

    * Case made in USA, not the phone.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The awful Trump branding might be laser engraved in America.

    Everything else is guaranteed made in Taiwan or china. The US was just barely getting its semiconductor industry back under Biden.

    If these things ever ship, I can’t wait for someone to crack one open just to find a bunch of Chinese parts.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I’m in favor of anything that makes these dipshits more conspicuous. Trump bumper sticker? There’s no way I’m pulling over to help you if you’re stuck on the side of the road. MAGA hat? Then I don’t have a problem saying no to their perfectly reasonable request.

    These people are helping destroy my country, and the Constitution. By continuing to display this propaganda, they’re telling everyone that they’re proud of it. I’ll let them pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Headphone jack

    Hey, they didn't fuck everything up!

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Thats probably because these are old outdated phones that were dump for good reason.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Except that they're claiming Android 15, USB-C and 12GB of RAM.

    No existing device has that combination of features, plus a headphone jack.

    This thing is a fantasy, plain and simple. Nothing about it is real.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Another of The Tramp's scams. If it materializes, I bet it's made in China.

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

    Anyone who puts down a “deposit” on this should be declared mentally incompetent.

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    Did anyone really expect them to tell the truth? Lets see what the real specs will be. Maybe it is a repackaged Pixel 3 or 4...

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Didn't Escobar Inc. already try this?

    Looking forward to the JerryRigEverything video.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Ew why does it have trumps name all over it. He's actually such a cancer.

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

    Is this provided via T-Mobile or did he just rip off T-Mobile’s logo font?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    He ripped off the font, and some are saying it's a slightly tweaked REVVL 7 Pro 5G, which is a midrange Chinese phone T-Mobile already sells for $170 with a T on the back. Trump's T is a bit bigger. Would be fun to see T-Mobile take legal action...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Maybe it's a Samsung phone and a "Made in USA" sticker, shipped in as components and stuck together in the USA, thus fulfilling both "designed" and "made" in USA even though there are some foreign-made components (2). Then onshore those components bit by bit until the process is complete.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Samsung

    It absolutely won't be. Best case It'll be a white label from local Chinese brands like Oppo, worst case -- a no-name company selling 150$ phones on alibaba. I'd put my money on the latter, the margins will be much better.

    Great scam for a washed up celebrity with a cult following.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Trump phone is going to join escobar phone.

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  • 9 comments in c/technology@lemmy.zip view that post
    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Trump has a proven track record for releasing quality products that are exactly as advertised and always end up being wildly successful and definitely not scams or grifts. His brand is synonymous with quality and integrity. I don't know why you'd even question this.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In the scam world, sometimes it’s beneficial to leave clear indications it is a scam.

    This helps weed out people who won’t fall for it (and wastes the scammers time) from those who are good marks.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    It's AI generated slop. Creating a product that checks all the boxes that people want without any basis in reality. There was obviously no engineer involved and the mockup images are obviously a mashup of existing products just made gold and with different text on it. I mean just look at the fingerprint scanner. There's no border between it and the screen like say an iPhone 6 had, but if it's a fingerprint scanner behind the screen, why is it showing? And either way, why is the color not smooth inside the circle but is outside and it's obviously not a pixilation issue of the current image. It's because the source images were either pixelated or multiple mixed together and ended up not getting the gold color applied the same to each source image.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is this provided via T-Mobile or did he rip off T-Mobile’s logo font?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How long until this is used for mass surveillance?

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  • 2 comments in c/thevergenews@sh.itjust.works view that post
    [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We used to be able to get Chinese knockoffs for 200 dollars brand new. It’s possible

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