Nine Months Later, The Trump Phone Still Doesn’t Exist

It’s been much than a period since 2 Trump Mobile executives showed maine what they claimed was nan T1 Phone, and successful nan clip since, there’s been… nothing. No news, nary announcements, nary phone. And nan institution has gone backmost to ignoring my emails.

When I said to Don Hendrickson and Eric Thomas successful early February, I was told that wrong “the adjacent mates of weeks” nan Trump Mobile website would beryllium updated pinch a afloat spec expanse and imagery for nan updated type of nan telephone that I was shown complete a video call. That was six weeks ago, and nan website hasn’t changed a bit.

The brace besides told maine that by mid-March they expected nan instrumentality to person cleared its certification pinch T-Mobile, nan past hurdle earlier it could officially spell connected waste and commencement shipping to buyers. We’re getting into precocious March now, truthful I emailed Hendrickson and Thomas to inquire if that certification has been completed, and received nary reply. I emailed T-Mobile too, which declined to comment.

The Trump Mobile executives wouldn’t perpetrate to a March merchandise day erstwhile we spoke, truthful possibly this isn’t rather arsenic egregious arsenic erstwhile nan T1 telephone missed its August, September, and December 2025 launches. Still, it’s now been much than 9 months since nan telephone was announced, successful which clip we’ve seen 1 bad render, 2 different spec sheets, and a blurry glimpse complete Google Meet.

If nan Trump telephone is real, it’s expected to get soon. I stay unconvinced that it will — but arsenic personification who’s dying to reappraisal it, I want to believe.

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