Unpleasant surprise. The Trump Mobile T1 phone will not “manufacture in the United States.” We know this because the Trump Mobile website silently altered the T1 language and now states that the phone will be “proud American design.”
It is an interesting turn of the phrase, and remembers how Apple describes the creation of its popular iPhone. In the packaging (he used to be on the devices), he says ‘Designed by Apple in California’. Everyone knows that products are largely assembled in other places, often in China, but more and more in India and Vietnam.
For months, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been pressing Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, to build his iPhone in the United States. Cook has offered some plans to help change the balance so that part of the work, perhaps some chip development, possibly Apple’s intelligence accommodation, can occur in the United States, but that has never been enough for Trump.
But now, maybe, just maybe, Trump will change his tone. Although the president is not directly involved with Trump Mobile or the T1 phone (it is a Trump family business), he has all the brands of a creation of Donald Trump, including the striking final of gold and that design something strange (why is it so high?). The ‘made in the United States’ claim was not an accident; That is Trump’s brand.
The new word writing on Trump’s mobile site is nothing more than entertaining:
“The T1 phone is not only powerful: it becomes a reality here in the United States. With American hands behind each device, we bring care, precision and reliable quality to every detail.”
Is that “American hands” collecting money in early orders? I doubt that it means that someone is assembling the phone in the United States. Maybe there is an American designer who has looked at all existing Android 15 smartphones and selected their favorite bits (I give them credit to include the 3.5 mm headphone connector).
‘Made for America’, more similar
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However, Trump Mobile faces the hard truth of the consumption electronics of the 21st century: almost nothing is built in the United States, and almost all the necessary components to make the phone are manufactured outside the contiguous United States.
As we reported a few weeks ago, making until the ‘made in the United States’ was a challenge, in the best case:
“In the first place,” Made in the USA “has a high bar. Professor Tinglong Dai, which teaches at the Johns Hopkins University School, told us:” The FTC [Federal Trade Commission] It has a strict standard for “made in the US.”: All or almost all pieces and processing must be national. Judging by that standard, the claim is not realistic. “
Trump will finally support that: “Yes, perhaps, it is not reasonable to demand that you build your iPhone here in the United States when I can’t even build my own phone with brand here in the United States.”
The $ 499 phone has been in Preorden for less than two weeks, but I wonder if someone who sold with the idea of a modern phone ‘made in the United States’ has requested the return of its initial payment of $ 100.
Will they do more people now until the phone is sent “at the end of this year” and so that the first reviews appear before buying? That means Trump Mobile offers the phone for review. For US technological media, that means Trump Mobile must discover how to take the phone to the United States first.
