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Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.theverge.com/news/687418/trump-mobile-network-t1-trademark-application

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  • HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    New day, new grift.

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  • eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m calling it, it won’t come out. I just doubt it will happen.

    If it does, it’s a rebranded phone wrapped in fake gold leaf, like the Pablo Escobar phone. pcmag.com/…/the-phone-from-pablo-escobars-brother…

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  • bieren@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t miss the fine print.

    *phones not made in the USA

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    • JTskulk@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Came here to say this and that there is a good Free software phone that is: puri.sm

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  • j0ester@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did anyone read the TOS and such? Holy shit! So many red flags.

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  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    $47

    Too high. Tello is $25 for Unlimited in the states and is also an MVNO.

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  • 4grams@awful.systems ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why do we need celebrity owned cell carriers? This article makes it sound like a bad thing Ryan Reynolds’s exited Mint, but at least the stars of arrested development still have a cell provider.

    I mean WTF, I like that there is competition but what the fuck is wrong with us that we prefer celebrity endorsement to actual features, value, longevity, etc.

    I know it’s a bigger question than what I’m asking but this is all part of the rot that our economy is experiencing. All vibes, all promises, all scams, this country runs on nothing but grift.

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  • enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is $47 considered a good deal in the states nowadays? Before I left (2015) I was paying about $80/month.

    Now I’m in the Netherlands and I pay $7/month I don’t remember what my plan is but it’s something like 8gb data and more minutes/SMS than I could ever use.

    Cell/internet/TV plans are a total racket in the US.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I pay for a year at once, so I only pay $15 per month for unlimited talk/text and 5 GB of mobile data. Mint is the carrier I use

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    • eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah, I pay about $25 a month for unlimited talk, text, and 35 GB of high speed data before being dropped from priority. It helps its a MVNO, which is the term for companies that use the networks and infrastructure of the big 3 cellular telecomms without needing to physically maintain them.

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    • iowagneiss@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really. I’m on Visible Wireless prepay and pay $25/month for unlimited data, including unlimited hotspot (rate limited at 5 mb/s on the hotspot).

      If it’s a post-pay plan, then it might be competitive, as the rates are around what you remember for those. Since they’re talking about a $500 phone instead of “free with plan,” I’m assuming it’s prepaid where you have to buy the phone separately.

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  • tehn00bi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know a maga grandma that will probably buy into this.

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  • kayky@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Use Visible instead.

    Unlimited data for $25/month.

    www.visible.com

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  • Ronno@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “It’s all computer”

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Trump-branded T1 Phone will apparently be made in America.

    The vintage “Calling: Bullshit” meme

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    • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I laughed so hard I peed myself

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    • lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you for this gif

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      • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No problem. It’s a classic from my meme collection that is so vintage, it predates smartphones. I needed a good excuse to dust it off.

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  • CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t wait to see those people buy them and then complain about them.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Make gold gross again.

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    • EldenLord@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Biometals are way cooler anyways. Copper? Zinc? Cobalt? Molybdenum? Iron? Tin? Manganese?

      All these are essential to our life and provide actual use compared to the utter lifeless and obsolete gold that only serves greed among the ghouls chasing it.

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      • cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gold is useful! It’s unreactive and conducts electricity really well. Plus you can drink vodka with bits of it in.

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Grifters gonna grift

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  • shiroininja@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s going to have a wider back door than an onlyfans model.

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  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who’s network does it run on?

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    • dariusj18@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      T-mobile

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  • kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Doorbook@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So people who have this phone can be ordered by an AI for an organized attack if he is not declared a king?

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t wait for a month or two from now and the flood of socials screenshots of morons not understanding why their shit doesn’t work

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is this

    Phone service under the direct control of the President of the United States of America 🦋

    Small government?

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      small government

      I think they want to aerosolize it. I swear you can’t understand the ruling class without reading ‘snow crash’.

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    • IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And is this “small government” in the room with us right now?

      [Glances nervously at devices]

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      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes. Soon it will be small enough to fit inside your blood.

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think this is a great idea. Will make it easy to identify which people I should never speak to again.

    Trump really is trying to be hitler. He even invented his own “star of David” in the form of a phone.

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are numerous errors on the page, from a processor section that doesn’t list a processor

    Shit-tier Mediatek. Calling it now.

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    • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the whole spec list and image was probably an ai prompt output

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      • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh for sure. If it does actually exiat though, it’s definitely gonna be a $40 Chinese whitelabel model.

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  • FoolishObserver@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t wait to see the Truth Social bloatware. Also, do you think the applucatiin marketplace will be called the TrAPP Store?

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t wait to read from which part of China this “American built” phone is made

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    • Bwaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey, the “building” of a phone is the part where Mercans put in those tiny screws, as suggested by Administration staff. The low-tech stuff, like fabricating doublesided circuit boards and the microcircuit and mucrowave filter parts mounted on them, all that easy cheap stuff can be done by other people to support the screwers.

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    • loutr@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, if they’re not lying it will be the worse phone ever made. The US-made Purism Liberty is $2000 and has similar specs to the Asia-made, $800 Librem 5, which is already overpriced compared to Android devices.

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      • addie@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You are not joking. Comparing a $2000 Purism Liberty with eg. a $200 HMD Fusion. The Fusion has somewhat better screen and battery; much better processor and camera. More RAM, the option of more storage, has NFC. It’s also designed to be easy-to-maintain, but is somewhat thinner and lighter despite having a larger screen area. Are ‘made in USA’ and ‘open-source drivers’ worth paying 10x as much for a noticeably worse phone? (It’s not really ‘made in USA’ either - it’s a mix of US, Chinese and Indian parts assembled in the USA.)

        I think that the people who believe a US-made iPhone will also cost $2k are kidding themselves - economy of scale and all that, but it must be substantially more.

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  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dude I hope it’s popular. Imagine the selling point other networks could have:

    *New feature: Fash Block.

    We guarantee our mobile network cannot send or recieve calls to any users on Trump Mobile. *

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  • Glitterbomb@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Please God let some bug at the carrier level incessantly provision these T1s to a max of 1.5mbps because that would be so fucking funny.

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s no way this isn’t an attempt to wiretap people

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    • aaron@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The ‘smart’ phones in everybody’s pockets already are. Kind of, more or less.

      Well perhaps the intention wasn’t to wiretap everybody, but it has ended up that way.

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah lol the mic is definitely always connected to Palantir on this bad boy

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  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re fucking shitting me. I refuse to believe that’s reality and you can’t convince me otherwise.

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    • Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let me sell you a Trump steak.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks

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      • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not only am I aware but I worked for Omaha Steaks when he kicked that off.

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      • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m aware…

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  • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That design looks like patent infringement to me

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