I spent a week using the Trump phone — it sucks

What happened

According to The Verge’s linked source, I spent a week using the Trump phone — it sucks, The Trump phone was never a serious phone. Not when it was announced last June, in dodgy renders and with an incoherent spec sheet. Nor when Trump Mobile admitted - just two weeks later - that it wouldn’t be made in the US. Not even when the company revealed the final phone, first to me […] I used the Trump phone for a week so that you don’t have to. The Trump phone was never a serious phone. Not when it was announced last June , in dodgy renders and with an incoherent spec sheet. Nor when Trump Mobile admitted - just two weeks later - that it wouldn’t be made in the US. Not even when the company revealed the final phone, first to me over a video call in February and then to the world in April through a short commercial with the slick sheen of AI. It’s now on sale for $499, past the days of its tenuous, ever-shifting release dates. A few buyers even have the phone, The Verge among

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