"At a glance, to a non-native, it looks fine. But look closer, and there's something curious: It only has 11 stripes. Last I checked, there really should be 13. The 13 stripes represent the 13 colonies that broke away from British rule to fight for independence, so you probably shouldn't just lop two of them off."
"What's stranger still is that Trump Mobile changed its logo to introduce the error. Take a closer look at the near-final version of the phone I was shown in February, with its giant T1 logo (thankfully since removed), and you'll see the flag at the bottom has the correct number of stripes. Someone at Trump Mobile chang"
"Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don't have our phone - but we do have some fresh doubts about the company's patriotic credentials."
"This has been a momentous few days for Trump Mobile, in which it defied the haters by announcing that its phones will be shipping to buyers this very week. Not that there's any sign the company has actually done that, but I digress. Because what I really want to talk about today is the American flag."
A phone design prominently features a US flag on the back. The flag appears normal at a glance, but closer inspection shows only 11 stripes. The expected number of stripes is 13, representing the 13 colonies that fought for independence. The company also changed its logo, and the stripe-count error appears to have been introduced after an earlier near-final version shown previously. In that earlier version, the flag displayed the correct number of stripes. The discrepancy suggests a mistake in the design process and triggers questions about the company’s patriotic credentials.
Read at The Verge
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