{"id":562,"date":"2025-06-20T17:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/truth-lies-and-the-trump-phone\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T17:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:11:29","slug":"truth-lies-and-the-trump-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/truth-lies-and-the-trump-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth, lies, and the Trump Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The idea behind Trump Mobile is relatively straightforward<\/a>. It’s easy to launch a mobile carrier these days, and it can be extremely lucrative – just ask Ryan Reynolds<\/a>! You should know, though, that Trump Mobile is a pretty bad deal<\/a>. And the network’s supposed flagship phone? We’re willing to bet that this $500, made-in-America, coming-soon device will end up being hardly any of those things<\/a>. If it exists at all.<\/p>\n

On this episode of The Vergecast<\/em><\/a>, Nilay’s off doing business meetings or whatever, so David and Jake are joined by The Verge<\/em>‘s Dominic Preston<\/a> to talk about all things Trump Mobile. They talk about the phones that resemble<\/a> the Trump Mobile T1 Phone 8002, and whether any of them are a good deal in 2025. They talk about the rise in MVNOs, the many ways you can define \u00ab\u00a0made in the USA,\u00a0\u00bb and whether there’s an inkling of a good thing behind this obvious grift of a product.<\/p>\n

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After that, David and Jake talk through some big news in the TV world: namely, that TV is dying faster than anyone expected<\/a>. They discuss the ongoing rise of both Netflix and YouTube<\/a>, the underrated success of FAST networks, an \u2026<\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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