The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible

Here is a roughly complete list of all the things we know for sure about the first phone made for the new Trump Mobile wireless provider: it's called the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version). It costs $499, and you can reserve one now with a $100 down payment. It is, according to the website, coming […]

Jun 16, 2025 - 17:20

The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible

Have you seen this phone before? No, really, I need to know.

Here is a roughly complete list of all the things we know for sure about the first phone made for the new Trump Mobile wireless provider: it's called the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version). It costs $499, and you can reserve one now with a $100 down payment. It is, according to the website, coming in September.

That's about all I feel confident saying. Beyond that, all we have is a website that was clearly put together quickly and somewhat sloppily, a promise that the phone is "designed and built in the USA" that I absolutely do not believe, a picture that appears to be nearly 100 percent Photoshopped, and a list of specs that don't make a lot of sense together. The existence of a "gold version" of the phone implies a not-gold version, but the Trump Mobile website doesn't say anything more about that.

Here are the salient specs, according to the site:

6.78-inch AMOLED display, with a punch hole for the camera
120Hz refresh rate
Three cameras on the back, including a 50MP camera, a 2MP depth sensor, and a 2MP macro lens
16MP selfie camera
a 5,000mAh battery (the Trump Mobile website actually says "5000mAh long life camera," so I'm just assuming here)
256GB of storage

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