The T1 smartphone, initially delayed and criticized as vaporware, is now reportedly being sent to media reviewers and is expected to ship to customers who reserved it. Reservations cost $100 for a gold-plated “Made In America” Android phone from Tr*mp Mobile. The company’s marketing has shifted from “100% made in the USA” to language about “American values,” while the packaging states it was “proudly assembled in the USA.” A media reviewer reported receiving a bank fraud alert after attempting to reserve the phone. The reviewer also noted an American flag design with only eleven stripes and questioned whether the device is a repackaged phone, raising potential FTC concerns tied to the “Made in America” claim.
"After sending out phones to media reviewers, the T1 phone is on track to ship out to the many people who paid $100 to reserve a gold-plated, "Made In America" android from Tr*mp Mobile. Phew! That was a close one! But Tr*mp Mobile isn't out of the woods yet, because at least one of the big promises to users already appears to have been broken."
"In the beginning, Tr*mp Mobile claimed that the phones would be 100% made in the USA. Now, they've changed the language around the product, saying it was "created \"with American values in mind.\"" But made in America? Absolutely not. The box tells us that it was "proudly assembled in the USA," which is a horse of a different color."
"NBC tech correspondent Brian Cheung was one of the first media workers to be presented with a coveted T1 phone, and right off the bat, he noticed some glaring problems-one of which showed up even before the phone did, in the form of a fraud alert from his bank asking him if he really wanted to hand over $100 to reserve a scammy phone from Tr*mp Mobile. Definitely not a vote of confidence! There's also the mysterious fact that the T1's American flag design only has... eleven stripes?"
""We think this is a repackaged phone of some other sort," he explains, adding that there are FTC implications behind the "Made in America" claim that Tr*mp Mobile clearly couldn't deliver on. So what did they do instead? Seemingly just took a n"
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