Trump Mobile T1 Phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC in disguise | Infinium-tech

The Trump Mobile T1 phone was announced last year and has undergone several design changes in the meantime, but now it seems to have been finalized. The phone has started shipping to some media outlets (about nine months after it was first promised), and the actual device looks a lot like the HTC U24 Pro from 2024, just with a different color and back panel.

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A teardown has now largely confirmed this. The teardown experts at iFixit have worked their magic and revealed the fact that both devices are almost as identical as we thought they would be.

Obviously, if it is the same device, it is likely not made in the United States, as early marketing for Trump Mobile claimed. Now, they just say it’s Collect In the United States, there is no way to 100% verify that claim, which may still be true.

Before you think HTC is making this phone itself, remember that the Taiwanese company sold its mobile division to Google several years ago, and since then it has been releasing a small number of devices each year, which are only available in a few markets.

This leads us to believe that HTC is working with a Chinese ODM that originally designed and manufactured the handset for HTC. And Trump Mobile may have contracted the same ODM when choosing this model, so the design is almost identical. ODMs have catalogs, and so it’s actually quite easy to do.

Anyway, if that’s the case then we assume the Trump T1 is also powered by the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC, just like the HTC U24 Pro. Trump Mobile only lists the “Snapdragon 7 series” chip, without giving further details.