Anybody bear in mind the “Jesus Telephone”? It is what we known as the iPhone earlier than (and a bit after) launch. It was that particular, that essential. Consider the Trump Cell T1 telephone because the antithesis of that. It is a flagship that is been promised however by no means delivered for nearly a 12 months and has now transmogrified right into a gold-encrusted abomination of an Android 15 telephone.
Oh, and you continue to cannot get it proper now.
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Now, although, now we have a special Trump Cell T1 telephone. That is proper, the corporate quietly redesigned its website and did a sneaky swap on the telephone. It is gone from a brushed-gold telephone with flat edges and a three-camera array that resembled the iPhone 16’s setup, to, nicely, one thing totally different.
The brand new T1 seems to be prefer it’s been dipped in copper-hued gold. It options retro-curved sides, and on the again is an unpleasant black and gold, capsule-shaped vertical digital camera array. The large “T1” is gone, and the beforehand calmly etched American flag is now a deeply embossed emblem. Proper under that’s “Trump Cell”.
From a spec perspective, this may be a greater telephone. It has a barely bigger display screen (6.78in vs 6.7in) that refreshes at as much as 120Hz. And as an alternative of 1 50MP digital camera and a 2MP macro, there are actually three 50MP lenses (together with a 2X telephoto). It additionally has a Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, although the positioning doesn’t specify which one.
Even so, the telephone remains to be inexplicably operating Android 15, regardless that we’re nicely into the Android 16 product cycle and this near studying about Android 17.
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But when I step again and try this telephone, I can actually say, “blech.”
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Look, design and aesthetics are private issues. Your Corvette is my Edsel. Your Armani swimsuit is my McDonald’s clown costume. There may be, as they are saying, no accounting for style. However that is what this telephone lacks: the style and the category it so desperately wishes.
In fact, folks love Rose Gold telephones, however a gold telephone like this (even when it’s a bit coppery) is garish. What’s worse is that the Trump T1 telephone lacks modernity. It seems to be like a smartphone time-traveled from 2011 on to this Trump Cell web site.
There may be, after all, one other probability to pre-order the telephone. You set down $100, which Trump Cell guarantees to use towards the price of the T1 telephone whenever you get it. Cease laughing, I do know. I can solely think about how those that did the primary pre-order spherical really feel proper now.
Someway, Trump Cell has managed to by no means ship its promised smartphone whereas nonetheless utterly refashioning it, after which acts as if there’s nothing to see right here besides extra awesomeness. The least they might’ve executed is name it the Trump Cell T2 telephone. No shopper is that gullible, are they?
The telephone, by the best way, remains to be $499. It is an okay worth for a gold idol of a smartphone that can by no means be mistaken for a tool worthy of a deity, prophet, or simply the common American.
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