The competitor iPhone 17 Trump Mobile is really made in China

Market ten years after the launch of the original presidential campaign of President Donald Trump, the organization of Trump decided to launch its own network of mobile phones. Duplicated Trump Mobile, this is a network that advances as an all -American service, and is largely based on the Trump brand.

includes US call centers, extensive services as part of the plan and the new smartphone, T1 class = “Col-SM-12″>

Trump's mobile proposal consisting of the phone and smartphone plan. No one looks especially great in terms of consumers.

Plan 47

Plan 47, named after the fact that Trump is the 47th US President, is the main offer for the network. While he offers a smartphone for sale, bread with oil for a carrier is a service.

Trump Mobile is a virtual network mobile operator (MVNO). Most likely, he will work on three main carriers of the United States, using 5G networks and AT & amp coverage; T, Verizon and T-Mobile.

that this is not so, this is a new network. It resell AT & amp; T, Verizon and T-Mobile Network Access.

$ 47.45 per month, obviously, another link to presidential numbers, is a fairly high price to the mobile service. But there are promises that go far beyond typical cellular services.

Trump Mobile claims to provide unlimited conversations, texts and data, and the first 20 GB is proposed at “high speed”. These are very common features of modern telephone plans.

Free international calls for more than 100 countries are formulated as the benefits for families that American military bases regularly call.

Trump Mobile Sim Pack Credit: Trump Mobile

falling into the sphere of advanced services, Trump Mobile also advertises “Protection of Devices”, But it does not finish saying that it is, except that it is not insurance. This is processed by a third -party provider, but again, Trump Mobile does not say that it will be.

also includes assistance on the road provided by Drive America. There are also views and recipe services that are again processed by third -party suppliers.

This is a lot for Trump to offer as part of a mobile plan, and at a nominal value it can justify a monthly fee. Nevertheless, additional services can lead to the fact that users can incur a commission if they use them outside the basic level. On the web, the complete absence of the disclosure does not have enough additional fees, so it is difficult to say how much or how often.

The site says that you can bring your own phone to the network using the SIM card supplied by the company. It is unclear whether ESIM is supported.

Since the current generation iPhone does not have a SIM card slot and rely on ESIM support in networks, this may exclude Apple users until this support is added.

at the time of the report by Trump Mobile is not indicated on the Apple ESIM support page.

T1 takes on the iPhone 17, perhaps

>Constant calls and pressure on the part of the administration of President Donald Trump for Apple to make his iPhone in the United States are well documented. Thus, it is appropriate that Trump Mobile will offer your own smartphone for consumers.

T1 is described in a mobile press release from Trump as a device that is “designed and built in the United States.” This nationalist statement is also a shot against Apple, which often uses the phrase “developed Apple in California”, but it follows that phones are collected in India or China in most cases.

, dressed in a gold casing, it is said that T1 has a 6.8-inch AmOLED display with a blow with a blow to the backlight and the “unlocked face of the AI ​​Lyceu.”

All these parts should be imported for the phone. There are no home manufacturers of Amoled -displays, and the VCSEL used to unlock the face is also produced abroad.

Trump Mobile T1-Righte Credit: Trump Mobile

Work on Android 15, it is indicated as it has 256 GB of the internal storage, extendable for memory card and 12 GBBs memory.

on the rear panel is a 50 MP, but a low-resolution depth and a 2MP macramer, but the front has a 16-megapixel selfie camer. Modules of the cameras should also be imported.

the battery capacity, as they say, is a generous 5,000 mAh, charged using USB-C with 20 W quick charging. That the USB Type-C port is also limited by the slow speeds of USB 2.0 and is connected by a 3.5 mm headphone jack. They are typical of the price.

T1 also, apparently, will be an attempt to spoil the September IPhone 17 assortment, with the Trump Mobile planning to send it by August.

The price of 499 dollars with an initial contribution of $ 100 for preliminary orders makes it an average price of an average level.

Import Reskined?

in the post X from the analyst Max Weinbach, it seems that T1 is very similar to T-Mobile Revvvl 7 Pro 5G. Specifications of the display and odd permits of the camera correspond to the T-Mobile device, as well as to other details.

Max Winbach's tweet about mobile Tram-T1-Izobrot: @maxwinebeck/X.com

This smartphone is made, belonging to the Chinese manufacturer LuxShare. It is believed that the T-Mobile version is built in China in China.

Theoretically, T1 can just be a repeated version of the Revvvl 7 Pro 5G in the new case and slightly displaced around the cameras.

Indeed, this smartphone usually costs $ 250 and even decreases to $ 169 on sale, as now on Amazon.

Although the phone can be modified in the USA, it was certainly not developed or assembled in the United States.

made in America?

The press release is specifically mentioned by T1 as “proudly designed and built in the United States.”

Mentioning a press release that T1 Trump Mobile is designed and built in the USA-Rinse: Trump Organization

in an interview, Eric Trump also mentioned the production of smartphones. “You will have phones that are made right here in the United States of America,” he said to Fox Business.

on the stage for launch, he announced: “Creating phones in America, it is time to return the products to our great country.”

Despite the potential smartphone with rethought, a repeated statement about the development of T1 and is made in the United States, which should be additionally questioned. The presented information about the smartphone is missing quite a lot of key areas and is contrary to the usual expected cost of production, if it is really a product created in the United States.

For starters, there is no description of the chip that feeds the mobile device in the list of specifications. Despite the fact that Qualcomm, the main company for the production of mobile processors in the United States, is based in the United States, it still transfers the production of chips to foreign third parties, such as TSMC in Taiwan.

TSMC has a factory in the United States, but this is still far from an adequate source of chips, even for Trump Mobile.

The obvious logic here is that the chip is ignored, because it is not a component made in the United States. This can be said about the screen, as well as the camera modules.

, which leads to another problem with the statements that it is made in the United States. As Appleinsider repeatedly discussed, Apple cannot easily deliver the iPhone production to the United States without significant expenses, as well as for many years of planning with its many partners in the supply chain.

Then the problem arises related to the creation of qualified labor in the United States, to the level of skill that is available among workers in China. Or the best robots.

All these problems that are applied to Apple are also applicable to Trump Mobile, unless it does not have a large-scale luggage apple to be dealt with to do the same.

The assembly of smartphones in the United States is possible, but on an extremely small scale. There are manufacturers such as purism that design and collect smartphones completely in the United States.

They do not receive all their details from American manufacturers. Cameras, RAM, storage, processors and screens are imported.

Thus, the assembly of a smartphone in the United States is not quite impossible, simply difficult. And by definition, this should be in low volumes.

Trump Mobile would still have to get components before collecting them in the United States. Add to the fact that these components ideally should also be obtained from the United States, and this becomes a very expensive operation.

, perhaps the one that on the plan on the smartphone will practically leave a profit from the sale price of $ 500. Given that Trump's enterprises want to make a profit, something should give to make T1 for $ 500.

We believe that the device will be assembled and developed in the USA. We do not think that this will make the deadline for organizing Trump.

, in addition, it is necessary to import details that the company will have to assemble the phone. They will be subject to tariffs that the administration used, unless a special transaction is concluded by the Trump administration, which makes the price of $ 500, which brings unlikely profit.

So if there is no real magic of supply chains, and at the moment, apparently, there is nothing, it is unlikely that it will be a smartphone created in the United States.

Trump Mobile clearly strives for the vote of Trump fans with T1. What they will receive from their money is an average device for Android devices, which does not correspond to the plastic gloss of its golden appearance.

updated June 16, 2025 at 13:04. Eastern: Added discussion Reskinning from social networks.

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