It’s going to be utter shite
Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone
Submitted 4 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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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Never gonna happen. Its a grift. See how you have to give them 100 dollars down now, get phone at later date,( to be announced) It’s a scam. Says phones are made in America. We don’t make phones here and all experts say it would take years to do so if we tried.
bieren@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Don’t miss the fine print.
*phones not made in the USA
JTskulk@lemmy.world 4 months ago
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 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…
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 4 months ago
$47
Too high. Tello is $25 for Unlimited in the states and is also an MVNO.
CentauriBeau@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Yet another way for Russian daddy to send him money without anyone knowing.
enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml 4 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.
iowagneiss@midwest.social 4 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.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 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.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 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
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 4 months ago
Hahahahahahaha wow this is real
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 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.
gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 4 months ago
the whole spec list and image was probably an ai prompt output
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Oh for sure. If it does actually exiat though, it’s definitely gonna be a $40 Chinese whitelabel model.
alexc@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Please, please, please, let everyone using it have the area code 666…
Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
The Kushners went into billions in debt (paid off by Saudis) just to keep ownership of 666 5th Avenue in New York. They might be proud of that.
j0ester@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Did anyone read the TOS and such? Holy shit! So many red flags.
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I know a maga grandma that will probably buy into this.
kayky@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
Ronno@feddit.nl 4 months ago
“It’s all computer”
TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 4 months ago
Trump likes to pitch crap to gullible fools.
HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
New day, new grift.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Insert parody of Raffi’s banana phone here
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 4 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.
FoolishObserver@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Can’t wait to see the Truth Social bloatware. Also, do you think the applucatiin marketplace will be called the TrAPP Store?
hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
That design looks like patent infringement to me
Grostleton@lemm.ee 4 months ago
He’s just a boy with a dream.
4grams@awful.systems 4 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.
Doorbook@lemmy.world 4 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?
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Just come out with the TeleScreen, and be done with it already.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Who’s network does it run on?
dariusj18@lemmy.world 4 months ago
T-mobile
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 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
Toes@ani.social 4 months ago
The article is pretty junk. What’s the plan offer?
Euphorazine@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Looks like standard MVNO offerings (mint, boost, cricket, fi). $47+tax for talk, text, and data. Though it does look more expensive than others.
THX1138@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Bets its not made in America? lol
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
100% guaranteed. The US does not have the manufacturing infrastructure for such products as a result of half a century of off-shoring to avoid organized labor.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 months ago
I’ll bet every dollar I have. Literally no one makes phones in America. It would take a giant company like Apple or Google billions of dollars and a decade of construction and education/recruiting, then they’d have to sell them for a competitive price out of the kindness of their hearts, because there’s no financial motivation.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Absolutely gonna be “made in America” in that the application of the gold decal to the cheap Chinese handset will be done in America.