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trumps gold phone (proudly american) is a htc u24 pro (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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https://mastodon.social/@iFixit/116733274225942555

https://www.ifixit.com/News/117789/teardown-confirms-the-trump-phone-is-a-gold-painted-htc-u24-pro

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[–] 164 points 4 months ago

"CT scanners are woke" - Trump supporters, probably

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    [–] 90 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Does this count as drop shipping?

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Did someone say pants shitting?
    I do the best shitting of pants, tremendous. Big men come up to me with tears in their eyes -from the stench- and they say "sir," they all call me sir, they say, "sir, that's the best pants shitting I've ever smelt. The sound is like a volcano erupting. Please, do it again".
    Some people say that they've never seen pants being shit on so vigorously. Yet it's something I do multiple times a day!!

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    • [+] 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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    • [–] 47 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    they moved the position of the light LED nearby the camera. That's a surprising amount of effort for something that even has the wrong number of stripes on the american flag

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  • [–] 40 points 4 months ago

    It's worse than having the wrong number of stripes. There's the right number of stripes on there, because he's using his name as the bottom stripe.

    He's basically saying that he's more important than Georgia.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm probably just going blind, but I can't see this moved LED light. The layout of the two images looks identical to me.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    If you compare the photo of the back, it looks like the flash light and the noise reduction microphone swapped positions between the two phones. On the scan they look identical because the LED and the microphone are in the same spot, just inverted.

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    • [–] 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    what Trump is a scammer??

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    • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Trump supporters after getting scammed by the Nth time: "I still back Trump!"

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    After buying the cheap made in China hats...

    After buying the cheap made in China flags...

    After buying the shitty scam shoes...

    After buying the gas-station quality knife...

    After buying knockoff watch...

    After buying preordering the phone...

    After preordering the cOmMeMoRaTiVe gold and silver coins...

    Them: "The next one will be legit!"

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    And they’ll even admit it. They’ll admit to how bad things are and still do it. Conservatives are requisite morons and no, being “educated” has nothing to do with being or not being a moron.

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    • [–] 78 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    How do we know that HTC didn't just rip off the immaculately designed Trump Phone?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Many very important people are saying so...

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    You know, they say. And they all say, "Crooked Xi has stolen the design" because he ONLY steals from THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, the USA, made GREAT AGAIN by me, Donald J TRUMP. And they say, "he stole the design to mock us", and he did, but look at his phone. It's NOT GOLDEN, which everybody knows. Every expert can tell you, you know, if it's not GOLDEN then it's not as good as the TRUMP MOBILE. Gold actually makes it faster, like our ships in the STRAIT OF HORMUZ. You know, the ships that will TERMINATE IRAN and lower Oil Prices so that the TRUMP PHONE becomes CHEAPER. Thank you for your attention to This Matter, DONALD J. TRUMP

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    • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    This technique is like an average bootleg phone you can buy from mainland China

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    • [–] 47 points 4 months ago (16 children)

    So far, the ONLY benefit I've seen about this phone is that of you go into the developer options, you can immediate jail break it.

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  • [–] 61 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    Obtaining root isn't jailbreaking, it’s just taking full control of your linux-based system :)

    Jailbreaking is so called because you have to escape the walled garden (jail) of apple products, which is a challenge because they wrote their own code. Not a problem you really have with android to begin with. You don’t even need root for most of what you want to do with android.

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  • [–] 61 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    You don’t even need root for most of what you want to do with android.

    I want to install an app in September

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You don't need root for that. Just use a third party rom, like Graphene, Lineage, etc..

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Jailbreaking does not only refer to apple products. It just means overcoming software limitations set by the manufacturer. Rooting an android phone is also jailbreaking

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    It just means overcoming software limitations set by the manufacturer.

    With you so far.

    Rooting an android phone is also jailbreaking

    Not if the method to do so consists entirely of steps that the manufacturer allows and documents.

    Depending on the manufacturer and model, unlockable bootloaders mean that custom software can be installed without a jail to break out of.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    rooting and unlocking the bootloader are not the same thing. if the manufacturer provides steps to unlock the bootloader, then i agree that that is not jailbreaking

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Sure, but the method of rooting that I'm familiar with (and one I suspect is the most popular) is to unlock the bootloader and modify a boot image that you can freely download from Google's website in accordance with their license, and then load and run that boot image onto your device.

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    • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's kinda crazy. HTC stopped making phones then kinda sorta started again but not in the US

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    • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    Kinda sucks because I am legitimately interested in a gold HTC phone.

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    This creates an interesting question.

    How much cheaper than the base price would it have to be for you to willingly carry around a Trump branded phone that's so immediately recognizable that everyone you meet will know what you're using?

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    What if you bought an HTC phone and printed a case with Gold TPU?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    *cries in Bowden tube*

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    You can do it. I designed and printed my phone case in TPU on an Ender 3.

    It even used two materials. PLA for the hard outer face, and TPU from there up giving a soft interface and bumper edge.

    TPU does generally suck on a Bowden machine. Stringing galore!

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    I just now realized I could do this easily with my U1. It might be time for me to make a phone case 2.0

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I printed mine with (4) 15×2mm magnets embedded which allowed me to easily attach it to a variety of desk and auto mounts.

    I did this about 2 weeks before the iPhone started doing that, so I felt special for about that long. But it was extremely handy.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Embedded?! Like inside, under a layer? Or tucked in a divot?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, inside the case, under a layer. I printed the PLA layers, paused the print to insert the magnets and change to TPU filament, then resumed.

    I had to extend a bump outside of the case a bit to accommodate the depth, but the bump worked nicely as a coping to seat the phone tightly in the mount so it didn't come loose with e.g. road bumps in the car.

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    • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Wait, wasn't HTC banned from US sales due to security concerns about Chinese devices?

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You're thinking of Huawei. HTC is a Taiwanese company that used to be a major player among Android OEMs, but their business dried up and they exited the global market. I didn't even know they were still making phones, to be honest.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    I think I'm thinking of ZTE, the change was like 2016-2017.

    I had a ZUK phone at the time, and it was amazing. Lenovo bought them and incorporated them, and my Lenovo phone was also excellent but useless in the States due to using different bands/lack of software for the West.

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    • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    The image has no label, but I suppose the Trump phone is the left one, since the other is cooler

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    Whats the price difference?

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    And say what you will about the T1, but let’s give credit where it’s due. Trump Mobile aren’t gouging their fanbase…not yet anyway. Against all expectations, the T1 is actually well priced when compared to the equivalently specced 512GB U24 Pro, and the only things you give up are the 60W fast charging and your dignity.

    That's from the iFixit article. I checked the website and they're currently listing it for $499, whereas Amazon has the U24 Pro 512gb (which I think is what they're saying is the equivalent?) for $699. So maybe it's actually cheaper? But I wouldn't buy either one at this point anyway. The U24 Pro released in July 2024 with the promise of two years of security updates, meaning it'll be out of support in a month. I can't imagine this "new" version will get any support at all.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Im guessing it comes preloaded with spyware anyway. I mean, they all do, but...

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Don't forget the chance that he could upload his CP to your phone to blackmail you or frame you for his own crimes at any moment.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    How long ago did people order these ago, and what was the cost then? The price surge on RAM and storage due to AI has already caused the prices of many mobile devices to go up, especially the ones with larger capacities.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    No idea.

    Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if these were manufactured in 2024, and Trump Mobile got a deal on them as unsold inventory of an end-of-life product. But that's pure speculation.

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    • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    How much is this trump phone?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Well they're charging $500 but it's anyone's guess whether you'll actually get the phone or not as far as I understand it the only people that have seen it so far are tech reviewers

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    • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Hell yeah, iFixit is based

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

    OK but isn't HTC's reputation pretty good? Or maybe used to be...

    So far I always heard the T1 would be some even cheaper no-brand from China.

    OTOH, it could still be exactly that - a no-name rip-off of the HTC U24 Pro. The article actually supports that: the boards are the same but not identical. Like somebody used the same plans, not the same factory.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Does it matter? This phones like 2 years old lol

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I know 8yo phones that still receive updates.

    I wonder how the Trump phone will handle this. Not at all, I suspect.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Its not about that, its about this "new trump phone" being some old phone being sold as new

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    GSMArena lists it as being available on the market.

    The T1 is not exactly this device; from the article I get the impression it's built from the same plans, but in a different factory.

    It's fairly common for any smaller batches produced mobile devices to be a bit slow to develop & hit the market.

    It's still a grift and a rip-off, but the phone having been on the market for just under 2 years is not the worst part.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I'm going back to an old LG phone after my current phone dies. There really has not been much real progress in hardware or software, more like loss of features and controls with new updates these days.

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    • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Chyna phone.

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