{"id":192505,"date":"2025-12-19T05:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192505\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:08:09","slug":"trump-mobiles-t1-still-doesnt-exist-but-the-company-is-now-selling-refurbished-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192505\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Mobile&#8217;s T1 still doesn&#8217;t exist, but the company is now selling refurbished phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The T1 smartphone from Trump Mobile remains <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/smartphones\/trump-mobile-is-promoting-its-smartphone-with-terribly-edited-photos-of-other-brands-products-222940375.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:non-existent vaporware;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">non-existent vaporware<\/a>, but the company is still finding new ways to take people&#8217;s money. Anyone who desperately wants to fund this sham can now buy a refurbished phone from the company. The business&#8217;s website has listings for &#8220;Renewed&#8221; models of the Samsung S24 and S23 and the iPhone 15 and 14. Gizmodo <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-trump-phone-delivers-on-its-promise-of-being-complete-and-utter-bullshit-2000701261\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:noticed;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">noticed<\/a> that Trump Mobile is selling these other brands&#8217; phones for the same cost, or sometimes more, than the same refurbs from other retailers.\u00a0Seems pretty par for the course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">NBC News opted to order one of the T1 phones in August to track its development. &#8220;After confirming with the credit card company that the transaction was not fraudulent, NBC News received a confirmation email verifying the order,&#8221; the publication said in a <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/trump-mobile-phone-customers-left-waiting-months-delay-rcna245035\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:report;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">report<\/a> last month. However, it has not received much communication from the company on why the phone still has not shipped. &#8220;Neither Trump Mobile nor the Trump Organization responded to NBC News\u2019 multiple requests for comment on when the phone would be released and why it\u2019s delayed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">In case you missed the previous acts of sketchiness from Trump Mobile, the company insisted at its debut that the phone was made in the US. That seemed like <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/the-golden-trump-phone-is-almost-certainly-not-made-in-the-us-174536590.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:a dubious claim;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a dubious claim<\/a> and the &#8220;made in the USA&#8221; language was <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/mobile\/smartphones\/trump-mobile-drops-its-made-in-the-usa-claims-193917169.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:quietly removed;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quietly removed<\/a> from the website shortly after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The T1 smartphone from Trump Mobile remains non-existent vaporware, but the company is still finding new ways to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[110049,85,46,321,7381,125,22353],"class_list":{"0":"post-192505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-credit-card-company","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-nbc-news","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-trump-mobile"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}