{"id":729972,"date":"2026-06-11T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729972\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:10:10","slug":"ifixit-trump-phone-teardown-confirms-its-an-htc-dupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729972\/","title":{"rendered":"iFixit Trump phone teardown confirms it\u2019s an HTC dupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">After getting its hands on a Trump phone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/886135\/trump-mobile-t1-phone-htc-u24-pro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported back in February<\/a>: the T1 Phone is an almost exact duplicate of the HTC U24 Pro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/deeplink?id=nOD\/rLJHOac&amp;mid=53746&amp;murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifixit.com%2FNews%2F117789%2Fteardown-confirms-the-trump-phone-is-a-gold-painted-htc-u24-pro\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iFixit<\/a> partnered with NBC to get hold of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/933202\/nbc-just-got-the-trump-phone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">network\u2019s media sample<\/a> of the Trump phone, along with a U24 Pro. They ran the phones through a CT scanner, tore them down to parts, and even put them back together into a functional Frankenstein phone with the U24 Pro\u2019s board inside the T1 Phone\u2019s chassis, confirming along the way that the two phones are functionally identical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">There are minor differences: The flash has been moved slightly, the speaker grille was tweaked, and the chipset package \u2014 while the same in specs \u2014 was supplied by Micron for the Trump phone, and SK Hynix for the HTC. The bigger change is to the battery: The Trump phone\u2019s cell is slightly larger and made in the Philippines rather than China, though supports slower 30W charging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">We\u2019d long suspected that the T1 Phone matched the U24 Pro, given both phones share a distinctive chassis design, almost identical specs, and matching headphone jacks and microSD card slots. iFixit\u2019s work here just about confirms that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">HTC previously told The Verge that it \u201cdoes not design or manufacture phones for third parties,\u201d but wouldn\u2019t confirm any details about the manufacturing of the U24 Pro. Given that HTC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/9\/20\/16340108\/google-htc-smartphone-team-acquisition-announced\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sold most of its smartphone business to Google<\/a> in 2017, it seems likely that it contracted a third-party company to design and manufacture the U24 Pro, and Trump Mobile turned to the same company for its T1 Phone. And as I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/943852\/trump-phone-made-in-the-usa-ftc-assembled-china\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported last week<\/a>, the U24 Pro was made in China. Place your bets now on where the Trump phone is made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Got inside information on Trump Mobile or the Trump phone? Reach out securely from a personal device to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/948262\/mailto:tips@theverge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">tips@theverge.com<\/a>, or see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/c\/tech\/22579076\/how-to-tip-the-verge-email-signal-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How to Tip Us<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After getting its hands on a Trump phone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,195,43445,190,10523,2100,714,64,61],"class_list":["post-729972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gadgets","tag-htc","tag-mobile","tag-phones","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}