Teardown finds that the Trump phone is practically the same as an HTC handset [View all]

I'm being petty, but fuck it.

The only functional difference between the T1 and the HTC U24 Pro is the battery, iFixit discovered.

The $499 Trump phone's battery is made in the Philippines, but most of the components are from China. Looking at all the evidence, iFixit posits that "the only place the T1 could have been made in the very short time the brand has existed, in the limited quantities it's being produced, and at the same price point as the U24 Pro, is at the factories with preexisting tooling and production lines for this phone." It concluded the T1 is "a phone designed in China, made in China, with the vast majority of parts sourced from China."

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