{"id":385671,"date":"2026-01-03T13:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/385671\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:45:19","slug":"its-now-2026-and-i-still-dont-have-my-trump-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/385671\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s now 2026, and I still don’t have my Trump phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year! I hope you got into 2026 safely, and I sincerely hope this is your best year ever. While I can make a lot of predictions about this year \u2014 Samsung will launch a Galaxy S26<\/a>, Apple will launch a foldable iPhone<\/a>, and the AI bubble will probably burst \u2014 one thing I can\u2019t predict is when I\u2019ll actually get the Trump phone I pre-ordered back in June. It\u2019s been nearly seven months since I put down my deposit, and I\u2019ve got literally nothing to show for it.<\/p>\n

Three months after I placed the pre-order, I wrote an article<\/a> summarizing what had happened since I hit \u201cCheckout\u201d at the Trump Mobile website. I highly encourage you to read that to get up to speed.<\/p>\n

Since publishing that article, not much has changed. However, I do have a brief update from Trump Mobile on why it\u2019s been so quiet about its first phone.<\/p>\n

Do you think the Trump phone is a scam?<\/p>\n

351 votes<\/p>\n

No; the phone will eventually ship<\/p>\n

11%<\/p>\n

Yes; this is a scam, and the phone won’t ship<\/p>\n

89%<\/p>\n

When am I going to get my Trump phone?<\/p>\n

\"Trump<\/p>\n

As with last time I checked in on the $100 deposit I put down on the T1 Phone, I called up 1-888-TRUMP45 to see if there were any updates. Not much has changed with the customer service aspect of Trump Mobile: I still had to select English as my language (why is Trump Mobile even offering a Spanish option? This is America!), and I was quickly connected with a rep who ostensibly lives in Missouri.<\/p>\n

I asked the rep when I could expect my T1 Phone to ship. They told me the government shutdown delayed the phone shipments. This was an interesting excuse for a few reasons. First, Trump Mobile is a private, US-based company run by Trump\u2019s two eldest sons, neither of whom is part of the United States government. Why did the shutdown affect the phone\u2019s release?<\/p>\n

A Trump Mobile customer service rep told me the phone could come at the end of January, but even they didn’t know what was going on.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible the phone still needed FCC approval, which wouldn\u2019t have been possible during the shutdown (we saw this very thing happen with the OnePlus 15<\/a>). However, that timeline wouldn\u2019t align either, because the previous rep I spoke with in September said the phone would ship at the end of October. Unless that rep was misinformed, the FCC approval process should have been either concluded or well on its way to concluding by then.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the most recent customer service rep also seemed confused about the whole situation. They told me they don\u2019t know why Trump Mobile hasn\u2019t sent emails to update customers about the delay. They also didn\u2019t know why phone shipments didn\u2019t begin as soon as the shutdown ended. All they could tell me was that I should expect the phone by the end of January, which is the new timeline they\u2019ve been told to give to inquiring customers.<\/p>\n

Wait a minute \u2014 the last time I called was in September, and the rep told me the phone would ship at the end of the following month. Now I\u2019ve called in December, and the rep has told me the phone will ship at the end of the following month. Is that all we\u2019re doing? Just saying it will launch in a month every time someone calls?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll wait as long as it takes<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Joe Maring \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n

When I placed my pre-order for the Trump phone in June, I knew what I was signing up for. I knew that, at best, I would get a shoddy, terrible device delivered to me. At worst, I would be scammed out of my $100 deposit. So far, it\u2019s looking like I\u2019m going to see the latter more than the former.<\/p>\n

So what happens now? I\u2019m going to keep waiting. I put $100 down on a Trump T1 Phone, and I will continue to write these articles until I am either allowed to buy the phone at its full $499 price or get a refund. Honestly, I hope the phone actually lands. I would love to review it. Hell, I would love to just see it, considering the phone started out as a Chinese iPhone clone, became an actual iPhone, and then morphed into a Galaxy S25 Ultra for some reason<\/a>. What does the phone look like? What comes in the box? Is the box gold? How many Android upgrades will it get? How\u2019s the camera? I can\u2019t wait to dive in.<\/p>\n

But hey, I\u2019m also a realist, and I fully expect to a) never get a phone, and b) never see my $100 deposit again. I\u2019ll see you all in three months with another update!<\/p>\n

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