Trump’s phone has finally arrived. Here’s what the review says.

After months of waiting, America’s Trump Mobile smartphone (AKA the Trump Mobile T1 AKA the Trump Phone) is finally in the hands of consumers — or, at least, the select few journalist reviewers who spent their hard-earned money to buy it.

Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien previously announced that the devices would begin shipping last week, and it seems that the promise was kept at least, as tech reporters started receiving the devices a few days ago.

Just a little summary: The Trump Phone was announced last June, marketed as a gold “Made In America” ​​Android device that could cost a user only $500. The company then opened a $100 pre-order for the phone. Soon after, users realized that the “Made In America” ​​label was too good to be true, and as the release deadline was pushed forward, many believed it was all going to turn out to be a scam. The terms and conditions of the device were even more mysterious, including the provision that Trump Mobile could not guarantee that the device would ever be released. It’s a completely normal thing to combine.

The Verge then reported on an official FCC listing that appeared to confirm O’Brien’s comments. A few days later, a Trump Mobile manager confirmed to the media that customer data was leaking into the open internet, thanks to a third-party platform provider.

At least the phone is there.

Unboxing Trump’s Phone

Our colleagues at CNET have completely unboxed it, and, contrary to popular belief, it’s real: A golden smartphone with an embedded American flag logo (but only 11 stripes instead of 13).

It comes in a sleek black box decorated with a minimalist flag like this one — kind of like those baseball caps your uncle wears — and it only reads “assembled in the USA,” not in the USA, so the jury’s still out on the phone’s manufacturing origins. Inside the box is a wall plug, a braided USB-C cable, and a SIM card tool, CNET reports.

The camera bump of this device is marked with the Trump Mobile logo (ie, just the words “Trump Mobile”). It’s taller than the iPhone 17, reports NBC News, and has a smaller screen bezel and a cutout for the camera. It looks, to the trained eye, almost identical to the 2024 HTC U24 Pro, similar to the mockups released earlier this year.

Trump Phone specs: Storage, performance, headphone jack?

The phone comes with 512 GB of storage and – wait a minute – a headphone jack?! That’s right; as society longs for the days of analogue technology, Trump Mobile is bringing back the jack.

The device has a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen and a 50-megapixel front-facing camera. It uses a 5,000-mAh battery and runs on the unnamed Snapdragon mobile platform.

According to the first tests done by CNET’s Patrick Holland, the phone has an 8-core processor, which he says is Snapdragon 7 Gen 3. He compares the performance of the Trump Mobile phone in standard benchmark tests with 2020-2022 Android phones, such as the Galaxy Z Fold 2.

The CNET team will be posting live updates of the phone as it tests it over the weekend. NBC’s Brian Cheung said: “It works like any other phone.”

The T1 comes with Truth Social pre-loaded. Duh.

Finally, the phone comes with a Social Reality app that is automatically downloaded to everyone’s home screen.

And that’s okay, because there’s nothing strange about the President of the United States creating his own social media platform to speak freely and putting it directly on the front of a communication device with his last name on it.