{"id":273216,"date":"2026-02-08T03:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273216\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:11:09","slug":"trump-mobiles-t1-phone-is-apparently-still-coming-but-itll-be-uglier-and-more-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273216\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Mobile\u2019s T1 Phone is apparently still coming, but it\u2019ll be uglier and more expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Mobile<\/a> is already failing to deliver on some early promises, according to the latest report from The Verge<\/a>. The report revealed the near-final design of the T1 smartphone and uncovered some major changes with pricing and manufacturing.<\/p>\n

The Verge spoke with Don Hendrickson and Eric Thomas, two of the three execs behind Trump Mobile<\/a>, about the company’s first smartphone, which will get a more expensive price tag and no longer boast being made in the USA. Thanks to a screenshot from the report, we can see that the latest T1 design also changed the camera array, which first resembled the iPhone’s but now has three cameras in a misaligned vertical stack.<\/p>\n

As for the price, Hendrickson told The Verge that anyone who paid the $100 deposit will still pay $499 total for the T1 as an “introductory price,” but that later customers could fork up to $999. Thomas also revealed that the T1 smartphone<\/a> will go through “final assembly” in Miami and no longer be “proudly designed and built in the United States,” as seen in the introductory press release<\/a>. Instead, the website now shows a description that says, “with American hands behind every device.” We still don’t have a release date \u2014 and now we don’t even have a final price \u2014 but the website still claims the T1 smartphone will be released “later this year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump Mobile is already failing to deliver on some early promises, according to the latest report from The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[154241,36920,152841,342,111,139,69,145,99868,28237],"class_list":{"0":"post-273216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-don-hendrickson","9":"tag-eric-thomas","10":"tag-introductory-price","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-the-verge","17":"tag-trump-mobile"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}