The Trump phone has already been very different since last week

Apparently, things change quickly in the world of the Trump phone. 10 days have passed since the Trump organization announced that it would launch the $ 499 T1 smartphone and, at that moment, there have already been a confused series of changes to a product that initially should have come as soon as August.

Now, you can only expect “by the end of the year”, according to the most recent update of Trump Mobile websiteWith any mention of “incoming” disappeared. This is not the only change. The fundamental details of the phone also seem to be a little transient, to the point that at the moment it is a kind of mystery about what would come exactly to your door if you had to put down your pre-order from $ 100 today.

The most remarkable change is the not unexpectedly unexpected pivot far from a phone that the press release said it would have been “designed and built in the United States” to one that is “put in life” in the United States, with “American values ​​in mind” and with “American hands behind each device”. As much as conveniently vague.

Eric Trump had already tried to withdraw American manufacture statements during the interviews on the first day of the announcement, stating that this was simply aspirational, something that could happen “in the end”. It seems now that the website has also admitted this, even if an employee of the Trump mobile customer service has doubled on the original request, saying to Wired “we do not yet have the name of the manufacturer, but they will be made here in America”.

The real specifications of the phone have also been mysteriously changed, Almost As if the phone that was announced for the first time was more a list of functionality desires rather than a blocked production model. T1 no longer has a 6.78 -inch screen, but one that is 6.25 inches, and now there is no promise of 12 GB RAM, or any mention.

There have also been some technical corrections that are so necessary: ​​it does not have a “5000 mAh long -lasting camera”, but a “5000 mAh battery”, and at T1 the correct legal superscript was given, changing from a “SM” service brand to a “TM” brand. Furthermore, fortunately the strange promise of the “front cameras” has now been qualified as the only “front camera”.

And it’s not just the phone itself that has seen changes. The covering map for Trump’s mobile wireless service has been completely faded from the site e now 404s. As previously reported, the now disappeared map had been borrowed from a mobile service provider called Ultra Mobile and referred to the Gulf of Mexico rather than to the favorite nomenclature “Gulf of America” ​​by Donald Trump.

The relatively cheap $ 499 price of the smartphone has been clarified as required a subscription in progress to Trump Mobile (“Recognize that you will be charged $ 100 today for your first month of mobile Trump service and shipping and activation costs. Authorities also authorize a charge of $ 399 plus the sales tax to be collected to be collected at the time when the T1 telephone is shipped.”). Legal page, in particular around the third party services offered on T1.

For now, the T1 smartphone seems to be very ongoing. Whether it is ever to do it from the pre -orders, and in which final form it materializes, if it does, all this remains to be seen. We had questions last week. If anything, we have even more now.