• Dotcom@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    How do we know that HTC didn’t just rip off the immaculately designed Trump Phone?

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    1 day ago

    Anyone who knows him and his history, he’s a scam artist and narcissist. He serves himself alone. That’s been clear for decades upon decades.

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      12 hours ago

      Huh? There clearly isn’t enough evidence to make that assumption. But don’t worry, I’m sure we can decide after 12 more years of his presidency

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      And say what you will about the T1, but let’s give credit where it’s due. Trump Mobile aren’t gouging their fanbase…not yet anyway. Against all expectations, the T1 is actually well priced when compared to the equivalently specced 512GB U24 Pro, and the only things you give up are the 60W fast charging and your dignity.

      That’s from the iFixit article. I checked the website and they’re currently listing it for $499, whereas Amazon has the U24 Pro 512gb (which I think is what they’re saying is the equivalent?) for $699. So maybe it’s actually cheaper? But I wouldn’t buy either one at this point anyway. The U24 Pro released in July 2024 with the promise of two years of security updates, meaning it’ll be out of support in a month. I can’t imagine this “new” version will get any support at all.

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          Well at least its not Israel making these, they would have put bombs in them. Though are we sure Israel didn’t paint them gold?

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          11 hours ago

          Don’t forget the chance that he could upload his CP to your phone to blackmail you or frame you for his own crimes at any moment.

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            That’s an insane method.

            “How come all of these new pedos have the same 15 petabytes of CSAM? And why is it always in a folder labelled ‘Donald’s Dirties’? These sick fucks.”

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        12 hours ago

        How long ago did people order these ago, and what was the cost then? The price surge on RAM and storage due to AI has already caused the prices of many mobile devices to go up, especially the ones with larger capacities.

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    23 hours ago

    Trump supporters after getting scammed by the Nth time: “I still back Trump!”

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      15 hours ago

      After buying the cheap made in China hats…

      After buying the cheap made in China flags…

      After buying the shitty scam shoes…

      After buying the gas-station quality knife…

      After buying knockoff watch…

      After buying preordering the phone…

      After preordering the cOmMeMoRaTiVe gold and silver coins…

      Them: “The next one will be legit!”

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      13 hours ago

      And they’ll even admit it. They’ll admit to how bad things are and still do it. Conservatives are requisite morons and no, being “educated” has nothing to do with being or not being a moron.

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    1 day ago

    they moved the position of the light LED nearby the camera. That’s a surprising amount of effort for something that even has the wrong number of stripes on the american flag

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      It’s worse than having the wrong number of stripes. There’s the right number of stripes on there, because he’s using his name as the bottom stripe.

      He’s basically saying that he’s more important than Georgia.

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      I’m probably just going blind, but I can’t see this moved LED light. The layout of the two images looks identical to me.

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        21 hours ago

        If you compare the photo of the back, it looks like the flash light and the noise reduction microphone swapped positions between the two phones. On the scan they look identical because the LED and the microphone are in the same spot, just inverted.

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      21 hours ago

      Did someone say pants shitting?
      I do the best shitting of pants, tremendous. Big men come up to me with tears in their eyes -from the stench- and they say “sir,” they all call me sir, they say, “sir, that’s the best pants shitting I’ve ever smelt. The sound is like a volcano erupting. Please, do it again”.
      Some people say that they’ve never seen pants being shit on so vigorously. Yet it’s something I do multiple times a day!!

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    So far, the ONLY benefit I’ve seen about this phone is that of you go into the developer options, you can immediate jail break it.

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      Obtaining root isn’t jailbreaking, it’s just taking full control of your linux-based system :)

      Jailbreaking is so called because you have to escape the walled garden (jail) of apple products, which is a challenge because they wrote their own code. Not a problem you really have with android to begin with. You don’t even need root for most of what you want to do with android.

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    That’s kinda crazy. HTC stopped making phones then kinda sorta started again but not in the US

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    23 hours ago

    The image has no label, but I suppose the Trump phone is the left one, since the other is cooler

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    Wait, wasn’t HTC banned from US sales due to security concerns about Chinese devices?

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      You’re thinking of Huawei. HTC is a Taiwanese company that used to be a major player among Android OEMs, but their business dried up and they exited the global market. I didn’t even know they were still making phones, to be honest.

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          You are correct. I had a ZUK phone at the time, it kicked ass. Miss that little thing…

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        I think I’m thinking of ZTE, the change was like 2016-2017.

        I had a ZUK phone at the time, and it was amazing. Lenovo bought them and incorporated them, and my Lenovo phone was also excellent but useless in the States due to using different bands/lack of software for the West.

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    OK but isn’t HTC’s reputation pretty good? Or maybe used to be…

    So far I always heard the T1 would be some even cheaper no-brand from China.

    OTOH, it could still be exactly that - a no-name rip-off of the HTC U24 Pro. The article actually supports that: the boards are the same but not identical. Like somebody used the same plans, not the same factory.

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        I know 8yo phones that still receive updates.

        I wonder how the Trump phone will handle this. Not at all, I suspect.

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          Its not about that, its about this “new trump phone” being some old phone being sold as new

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            GSMArena lists it as being available on the market.

            The T1 is not exactly this device; from the article I get the impression it’s built from the same plans, but in a different factory.

            It’s fairly common for any smaller batches produced mobile devices to be a bit slow to develop & hit the market.

            It’s still a grift and a rip-off, but the phone having been on the market for just under 2 years is not the worst part.

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        I’m going back to an old LG phone after my current phone dies. There really has not been much real progress in hardware or software, more like loss of features and controls with new updates these days.