I\u2019ve got bad news if you\u2019ve been impatiently awaiting the release of the Trump Mobile T1: it looks like the gold-tinted, bargain basement smartphone with \u201cAmerican values\u201d is running late. It was initially meant to launch in September, but with only a few hours of the month left, that\u2019s looking increasingly unlikely.<\/p>\n
The T1 was announced in June, along with the launch of Trump Mobile\u2019s $47.45 monthly service plan<\/a>. The release date was always a little unclear \u2014 the Trump Organization\u2019s press release<\/a> promised the phone would arrive in August, while the Trump Mobile website claimed September \u2014 but either way, it hasn\u2019t happened. That means any buyers who actually stumped up the $100 deposit for the hardware still have nothing to show for it.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve known this was coming for a while. Within weeks of the phone\u2019s announcement, the Trump Mobile website was quietly updated to remove mentions of that September release \u2014 the phone\u2019s store page<\/a> now promises it will arrive \u201clater this year.\u201d The Trump Organization didn\u2019t respond to our request for comment on the reason for the delay or when the phone is expected to arrive.<\/p>\n The launch date isn\u2019t the only detail about the phone that\u2019s changed. The T1 is now supposed to have a 6.25-inch screen rather than 6.78-inch, and the spec sheet no longer features the confusing, but strangely endearing, promise of a \u201c5000mAh long life camera.\u201d Despite the smaller size, the low quality render above remains our only glimpse yet of the T1\u2019s design outside a few ads featuring badly edited images of iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones<\/a>.<\/p>\n