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Trump Mobile will take your $499 right now
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Trump Mobile will take your $499 right now
The T1 Phone no longer requires a $100 deposit — but the company still hasn’t shipped our preorders.
The T1 Phone no longer requires a $100 deposit — but the company still hasn’t shipped our preorders.
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Yours for $499 (plus tax and an indeterminate amount of time for processing and shipping).
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_Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week_. We still don’t have the phones we preordered yet, but this week the T1 hit open sale, no deposit required.
Trump Mobile’s T1 Phone is now available for anyone to buy directly. The phone has previously trickled out to a small number of preorder customers — though The Verge is still waiting for both of its handsets — but now you can claim your own without having to place a $100 deposit.
Android Authority spotted the change to the Trump Mobile website, which now lets you pay $499 directly for the phone, rather than paying $100 first. In true Trump Mobile fashion, they’ve half-assed the website update: One page on the site still says you can “join the waitlist” for the phone, while the homepage encourages you to “get in line now,” and still mentions the now-deprecated $100 deposit.
It’s not clear how fast you’ll actually get the phone. There’s limited evidence that Trump Mobile has shipped more than a handful of phones to customers so far, and it’s possible that anyone ordering today would still have to wait for the company to process existing orders first. Or not! This company is weird.
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If for some reason you want to buy a T1 Phone today, it’ll set you back $499 plus tax. Trump Mobile still describes this as “promotional pricing,” though as of yet there’s no sign of the price rise that executives told me was coming back in February.
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