The T1 Phone from the Trump Organization is essentially a gold-plated HTC U24 Pro from 2024, as a teardown by the repair platform iFixit shows. The internals of the gold-colored smartphone almost completely match the two-year-old Android device from HTC.
For the analysis, iFixit first put both phones through a CT scanner and then disassembled them. The result: identical mainboard, identical Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor, 12 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of storage. The differences are largely cosmetic: the position of the flash has been slightly shifted, and the speaker grille has different perforations. The mainboard of the HTC model ran without issues in the Trump casing during the test, iFixit documents in the teardown.
The only notable hardware difference appears to be in the battery: the T1 Phone's cell is slightly larger at 19.35 watt-hours compared to the HTC U24 Pro's 17.23 watt-hours. However, the Trump phone only charges at 30 watts instead of 60 watts like the original.
Designed and built in China
This contradicts the marketing claims behind the T1. “When you put this information together, you don't get an 'american-proud design;' you get a phone that is designed in China, and manufactured in China, and largely with parts from China,” iFixit writes. The Trump Organization initially advertised the T1 as “Made in the USA,” but softened this claim after the first pre-orders. The phone was temporarily described as designed with “American values,” for instance. The packaging now only states “Assembled in the USA”: According to the Trump Organization, the phone is assembled by a team in Florida from ten parts.
