Trump Mobile\u2019s T1 Phone is now available for anyone to buy directly. The phone has previously trickled out to a small number of preorder customers \u2014 though The Verge is still waiting for both of its handsets \u2014 but now you can claim your own without having to place a $100 deposit.<\/p>\n
Android Authority<\/a> spotted the change to the Trump Mobile website<\/a>, which now lets you pay $499 directly for the phone, rather than paying $100 first. In true Trump Mobile fashion, they\u2019ve half-assed the website update: One page on the site still says you can \u201cjoin the waitlist\u201d for the phone, while the homepage encourages you to \u201cget in line now,\u201d and still mentions the now-deprecated $100 deposit.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not clear how fast you\u2019ll actually get the phone. There\u2019s limited evidence that Trump Mobile has shipped more than a handful of phones to customers so far, and it\u2019s possible that anyone ordering today would still have to wait for the company to process existing orders first. Or not! This company is weird.<\/p>\n If for some reason you want to buy a T1 Phone today, it\u2019ll set you back $499 plus tax. Trump Mobile still describes this as \u201cpromotional pricing,\u201d though as of yet there\u2019s no sign of the price rise that executives told me was coming<\/a> back in February. We don\u2019t know when the T1 Phone\u2019s price will change, or how much it will eventually cost, though I was told it will be \u201cless than $1,000.\u201d<\/p>\n For those keeping track at home, I\u2019m thrilled to confirm that as of this week The Verge has paid in full for both of its phones, though we\u2019re still waiting for any confirmation that either has shipped. Any bets on when they actually turn up?<\/p>\n Got inside information on Trump Mobile or the Trump phone? Reach out securely from a personal device to tips@theverge.com<\/a>, or see our How to Tip Us<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump Mobile\u2019s T1 Phone is now available for anyone to buy directly. The phone has previously trickled out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[166,165,3,12074,1343,111,172,74],"class_list":["post-727379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gadgets","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-phones","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}