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i Fixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe
Clive Mason / Getty Images Donald Trump’s flagship MAGA phone appears to be a nearly part-for-part replica of another cellphone announced by a Taiwanese company exactly two years ago. NBC News took one of the president’s long-awaited Trump Mobile T1 phones to i Fixit, a California repair company th...
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What happenedi Fixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe.
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Clive Mason / Getty Images Donald Trump’s flagship MAGA phone appears to be a nearly part-for-part replica of another cellphone announced by a Taiwanese company exactly two years ago. NBC N...
i Fixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe
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After getting its hands on a Trump phone and tearing it apart, i Fixit has confirmed what I first reported back in February: the T1 Phone is an almost exact duplicate of the HTC U24 Pro. i...
