iFixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe

After getting its hands connected a Trump telephone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I first reported backmost successful February: the T1 Phone is an almost nonstop copy of the HTC U24 Pro.

iFixit collaborated pinch NBC to get clasp of the network’s media sample of the Trump phone, on pinch a U24 Pro. They ran the phones done a CT scanner, tore them down to parts, and moreover put them backmost together into a functional Frankenstein telephone pinch the U24 Pro’s committee wrong the T1 Phone’s chassis, confirming on the measurement that the 2 phones are functionally identical.

There are insignificant differences: the flash has been moved slightly, the speaker grille was tweaked, and the chipset package — while the aforesaid successful specs — was supplied by Micron for the Trump phone, and SK Hynix for the HTC. The bigger alteration is to the battery: the Trump phone’s compartment is somewhat larger, and made successful the Philippines alternatively than China, though supports slower 30W charging.

We’d agelong suspected that the T1 Phone matched the U24 Pro, fixed some phones stock a unique chassis design, almost identical specs, and matching headphone jacks and microSD paper slots. iFixit’s activity present conscionable astir confirms that.

HTC antecedently told The Verge that it “does not creation aliases manufacture phones for 3rd parties,” but wouldn’t corroborate immoderate specifications astir the manufacturing of the U24 Pro. Given that HTC sold astir of its smartphone business to Google successful 2017, it seems apt that it contracted a third-party institution to creation and manufacture the U24 Pro, and Trump Mobile turned to the aforesaid institution for its T1 Phone. And arsenic I reported past week, the U24 Pro was made successful China. Place your bets now connected wherever the Trump telephone is made.

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