Bad news if you didn\u2019t lock in a Trump phone at launch: It now costs $749, a $250 increase on its price at launch. The T1 Phone itself hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n
Trump Mobile didn\u2019t announce the price increase, instead quietly changing its website overnight<\/a>. This wasn\u2019t a total surprise though, especially given the phone ships with an unexpectedly generous 512GB of storage and 12GB of RAM. When I spoke to two Trump Mobile executives<\/a> earlier this year, they called the $499 launch pricing \u201cintroductory,\u201d and a few months later<\/a>, the website itself was changed to reflect that, calling it a \u201cpromotional price.\u201d That wording is now gone.<\/p>\n To my surprise, my Trump phone has received some support since it launched. There\u2019s been exactly one software update, moving it from Android\u2019s February 2026 security patch to the May 2026 version. It\u2019s still running Android 15 though, which is now two years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad news if you didn\u2019t lock in a Trump phone at launch: It now costs $749, a $250…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[166,165,3,12074,1343,111,172,74],"class_list":["post-843017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","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\/843017","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=843017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}