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Trump Phone First Impressions: CNET Director of Mobile Content, Patrick Holland breaks down all the features on Trump Mobile’s flagship phone in a Live Q&A. Read more about the Trump Phone on CNET.com Trump Phone Starts Shipping This Week After 9-Month Delay 0:00 Intro 02:15 Pre-Order Context & Shipping Delays 05:30 Unboxing the Trump Phone…

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Trump Phone First Impressions: CNET Director of Mobile Content, Patrick Holland breaks down all the features on Trump Mobile’s flagship phone in a Live Q&A.

Read more about the Trump Phone on CNET.com
Trump Phone Starts Shipping This Week After 9-Month Delay

0:00 Intro
02:15 Pre-Order Context & Shipping Delays
05:30 Unboxing the Trump Phone T1
08:45 Design, Gold Aesthetic & Build Quality
12:10 Hardware Specs: Display & Snapdragon Platform
15:40 Camera System & 50MP Lens Overview
19:15 OS & Software: Android Customizations
23:00 Chat Q&A: Is it a modified REVVL 7 Pro?
27:30 Chat Q&A: Carrier Compatibility & The “47 Plan”
32:45 First Impressions Summary: Is it worth $499?
36:20 Outro & Where to Find the Full CNET Review

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121 Comments

  1. @KadeemG61

    May 21, 2026 at 3:52 pm

    It’s a scam and so does President Dump

    • @DrMoorehen

      May 21, 2026 at 5:54 pm

      how about a Biden phone?

    • @Zane_Zaminsky

      May 21, 2026 at 6:26 pm

      @DrMoorehen$1,776,000,000

    • @Roaming-ronin

      May 21, 2026 at 7:06 pm

      @DrMoorehenBiden derangement syndrome

    • @thechemise4487

      May 21, 2026 at 9:01 pm

      ​@DrMoorehenhow about anyone that know tech. There is a reason no politivian ever tried this cause they dont have a clue what they are doing and a tech with over promise and under delivery die fast

  2. @elidc8240

    May 21, 2026 at 3:54 pm

    😅

  3. @theproduct456

    May 21, 2026 at 4:00 pm

    Oh man head phone jack? Does it got expandable memory? Does the battery come out

  4. @junglebottom

    May 21, 2026 at 4:43 pm

    Orange Imbecile

  5. @YouTubeAddict50

    May 21, 2026 at 4:55 pm

    Just don’t open the folder marked ‘Epstein’.

  6. @Barsquad

    May 21, 2026 at 5:21 pm

    🔥🔥🔥🔥

  7. @Barsquad

    May 21, 2026 at 5:21 pm

    Sheeett I’d cop one

  8. @Barsquad

    May 21, 2026 at 5:21 pm

    Bunch of lame comments

    • @wmassey683

      May 21, 2026 at 5:25 pm

      Glazing on the timeline, huh?

    • @jesusmelendez9563

      May 21, 2026 at 6:42 pm

      Nope

  9. @Hollgarrtube

    May 21, 2026 at 5:26 pm

    I’m sure this will be fair and balanced 🙄

  10. @tuchpongtulyayon6343

    May 21, 2026 at 5:30 pm

    It’s the most unintentional funny phone review I’ve ever seen 😂

  11. @KaransoniS

    May 21, 2026 at 5:45 pm

    😅😅😅😅😂😂

  12. @thomasm2161

    May 21, 2026 at 6:00 pm

    Comes with preloaded pics of k!ds as wallpaper huh

  13. @Tymmz

    May 21, 2026 at 6:02 pm

    Is this satire?

  14. @extra4542

    May 21, 2026 at 6:12 pm

    Anyone that actually bought this for personal use is an absolute idiot that deserved to be scammed

  15. @emelsampah

    May 21, 2026 at 6:19 pm

    That phone looks Chinese

  16. @Headead5231

    May 21, 2026 at 6:40 pm

    Hate curved screens

  17. @jesusmelendez9563

    May 21, 2026 at 6:43 pm

    👎🏾

  18. @donaldshopland7386

    May 21, 2026 at 6:54 pm

    Why would you pay $500 for a cell phone with the exact same specs of a two year old android phone that you can buy for $125. It’s NOT made in the US and the older operating system that won’t be supported in another two years.

  19. @LakeShoreBeats

    May 21, 2026 at 6:57 pm

    Finally a phone that represents America 🇺🇸 💩

  20. @Operafiend22

    May 21, 2026 at 7:23 pm

    I’m waiting for the class action lawsuits to begin

  21. @applerunner1184

    May 21, 2026 at 7:55 pm

    If you enjoy being grifted – it’s a great phone!

  22. @applerunner1184

    May 21, 2026 at 7:56 pm

    Proudly assembled in the US. Translation – we put the sticker on the box in the US!

  23. @Headchopperr

    May 21, 2026 at 8:47 pm

    I’ve been wanting a good‑looking phone for delivery work excited to get my DoorDash and Uber Eats apps back on this monster

  24. @mariooliva1259

    May 21, 2026 at 8:55 pm

    Phone’s color should’ve been orange…

  25. @Beingfrank5726

    May 21, 2026 at 8:59 pm

    It has a plastic pull out antenna and a little crank handle for charging

  26. @Nomadicways

    May 21, 2026 at 10:09 pm

    I had tried out the Amazon phone from way back…….Can it beat that garbage of a phone?

  27. @Tackademicks

    May 21, 2026 at 10:32 pm

    GARBAGE!

  28. @taylorgiles4844

    May 21, 2026 at 10:38 pm

    exact specs as the htc phone

  29. @JeremyDeBose

    May 21, 2026 at 11:01 pm

    18:30 Trum Mobile is the final stripe on the flag so it’s not missing any. Dunno why nobody sees that. Also: this review was way more positive than I expected. Jk it went as positively as I expected.

    • @johnwagner9257

      May 21, 2026 at 11:31 pm

      Should have been a white stripe with blacked letters. It was poorly done.

  30. @mr.joshmateo

    May 22, 2026 at 12:00 am

    8:20 can it be uninstalled?

  31. @TheCurtiswachter

    May 22, 2026 at 12:20 am

    Trash

  32. @kerigpope

    May 22, 2026 at 12:40 am

    The perfect phone to give as a grift. 👍

    • @Jolien-o8r

      May 22, 2026 at 6:30 am

      😂🤣 creative..

  33. @LatvietisKristaps

    May 22, 2026 at 3:15 am

    Biden phone would have rainbow back cover with arabic text.

    • @clanholmes

      May 22, 2026 at 5:30 am

      and have no memory

  34. @artiomvv569

    May 22, 2026 at 6:00 am

    A 150$ phone that costs 500$. That’s it

  35. @cletp758

    May 22, 2026 at 6:18 am

    This is like 20016 phone. Like galaxy edge.

  36. @alteredtogo3420

    May 22, 2026 at 6:57 am

    Start the suing process for fake advertisement for an American made phone.
    I didn’t even buy it and I’m suing

  37. @trekmaus

    May 22, 2026 at 8:36 am

    Will the phone explode when you search the Ep…n files 🤨🧐

  38. @dukajoe

    May 22, 2026 at 10:05 am

    I’m with y’all, but I wish I still had a headphone jack 😄 (on a different phone). Older Samsungs had a nice dac + amp and I considered it a premium feature

  39. @lordcron

    May 22, 2026 at 10:09 am

    Does it yell the N-word when you first turn it on?

  40. @I.am_Groot

    May 22, 2026 at 10:49 am

    So it’s an older android phone sold at twice what it’s worth…and for ‘just’ $50 a month you get 20gb of data? Whoa…. shrinkflation at its most golden 😂

  41. @veryconcerningthings

    May 22, 2026 at 10:50 am

    Appreciate the review cnet

  42. @JellyFishPuddin

    May 22, 2026 at 10:58 am

    Great review!

  43. @kunjiklub

    May 22, 2026 at 11:16 am

    The phone can be hacked just like what the current administration is doing to American democracy

  44. @joelnehl

    May 22, 2026 at 11:47 am

    I can’t watch a 36 minute video about this phone, can’t you cut it down to about 6 minutes?

    • @Slicksterzz

      May 22, 2026 at 6:12 pm

      Try reading the transcript.

  45. @JustYourAverageCrusaders

    May 22, 2026 at 11:56 am

    Whyborn? More like why were you born at all? This device is dripping with evil

  46. @rellopan

    May 22, 2026 at 4:47 pm

    37 minutes of almost nothing. Instead of running Geekbench 6 (for what?) you should have installed DevCheck, CPU-Z or AIDA64. This would have given you some data to talk about and to put in the video description.
    Nobody cares about speculation anymore when the real thing is on the table.

  47. @kenjohnston1257

    May 22, 2026 at 4:49 pm

    ON FOX THEY SAID DONALDS PHONE IS BETTER THEN IPHONE AND ALL THE OTHER PHONES DEAL WITH IT LIBS!

  48. @MakanaAku

    May 22, 2026 at 6:15 pm

    It’s the PERFECT UGLY YELLOW PUKE 🤮

  49. @mikeyo5154

    May 22, 2026 at 6:28 pm

    Looks like an old POCO phone

  50. @MakanaAku

    May 22, 2026 at 6:34 pm

    🦗 Cricket repainted HTC Chinese JUNK

  51. @2003SCT

    May 23, 2026 at 1:18 am

    This phone needs just one phone speed dial contact pre-installed: Jeffrey Epstein 🙂

  52. @StyleshStorm

    May 23, 2026 at 2:16 am

    The lady laughing like she’s in on how much this is a meme on the internet I bet she watches penguin zero

  53. @hatproduction6975

    May 23, 2026 at 4:00 am

    Will never buy one

  54. @michaelearns8269

    May 23, 2026 at 9:25 am

    In the last century fascists sold books and pictures of them. Nowadays they sell phones. What an evolution.

  55. @Hotrodder-Garage

    May 23, 2026 at 9:58 am

    What a review. Its like walking on egg shells.

  56. @MissC.1460

    May 23, 2026 at 10:41 am

    8647

  57. @nayayelin-nk4hc

    May 23, 2026 at 11:53 am

    Two of you failed to supress your desire to LOL is very funny.😂😂😂❤🎉

  58. @daviddanddroid

    May 23, 2026 at 1:22 pm

    “no one deserves to be ripped off.” I’m gonna have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there.

  59. @erichansen6161

    May 23, 2026 at 1:58 pm

    Now do a review without working so hard to NOT say what you really think.

  60. @CoyTheobalt

    May 23, 2026 at 2:28 pm

    I Refuse to believe that someone so dumb and pedestrian is the face of cnet.

  61. @CoyTheobalt

    May 23, 2026 at 2:30 pm

    you think software support is based upon model and not release date? thats absolutely moronic.

  62. @CoyTheobalt

    May 23, 2026 at 2:31 pm

    have you ever spoken with people before?

  63. @kendexter

    May 23, 2026 at 4:27 pm

    its an old Android 16 alright.. nice scam..he got that lot cheap

  64. @mendellalvarado4285

    May 23, 2026 at 4:54 pm

    I understand you being very careful with your words about the phone, but it’s distracting. You’re better than that. You don’t need to be unfair or cruel, but you’re dancing around the obvious shortcomings, which is unfair to all other phones you’ve covered in the past.

  65. @richardcutts196

    May 23, 2026 at 5:40 pm

    Likely a ‘Welcome’ phone.

  66. @KalzangVlogs17

    May 23, 2026 at 6:14 pm

    Iphone looks 10 years old phone if we talk about design

  67. @C3NTAUR-h7d

    May 23, 2026 at 6:27 pm

    Things like this goes to show what they think about the [potential] target customers. I also remember the so-called “Freedom Phone”. 😁

    Quite embarrassing!

  68. @Jon-g2d5k

    May 23, 2026 at 8:19 pm

    Anyone who bought this deserved to be ripped off. They are morons.

  69. @platanopowa

    May 23, 2026 at 9:54 pm

    What happened to CNET? This videos looks from 2005. I remember when CNET was in top of the tech world… Now they produce videos that look from 1970.

  70. @ALMOSTUNITED

    May 23, 2026 at 10:01 pm

    Only the sticker “might have been printed” in the USA 😅😅

  71. @YankeesGiants

    May 23, 2026 at 10:06 pm

    Why would anyone buy a phone without knowing how many OS updates and security updates you would get. Plus no idea what processor is in the phone only fools would buy this trash.

  72. @jjo7843

    May 23, 2026 at 10:07 pm

    Are you serious? “Good to see them embracing technology of yesterday” They found the cheapest bulk deal on aged technology. Beginning and end of embrace.

  73. @steveslater7885

    May 23, 2026 at 10:15 pm

    for this being the second known T1 phone… the upload and production quality is shockingly bad.

  74. @YankeesGiants

    May 23, 2026 at 10:27 pm

    Why does it seem this guy is scared to say anything bad about trash phone.

  75. @YankeesGiants

    May 23, 2026 at 10:30 pm

    Can you customize the home screen can you uninstall apps you don’t want like Truth Social

  76. @donmagic7710

    May 23, 2026 at 11:18 pm

    wtf was that intro

    • @radiantSquare

      May 24, 2026 at 1:09 am

      Pure cinema

  77. @1mezion

    May 24, 2026 at 8:26 am

    I love how they try to delicately dance around this crap😂 people would be better off with a Samsung a series lineup

  78. @marsteden5379

    May 24, 2026 at 9:05 am

    There was maybe a sticker or at best an outside skin that maybe was put on in the US. Anyone who has bought this phone has paid at least $300 too much, just to have the tangerine turd’s name on it. Every time you get this piece of cr@p out, everyone will know what a complete IDIOT you are! You now own a Chinese midrange phone dresses in a cheesy plastic gold wrapper with a false flag on the back, that’s the US in a nutshell, shallow, vulgar and cheap!

  79. @rjggutierrez2118

    May 24, 2026 at 2:38 pm

    Yeah don’t give it too ur supporters give to the “fake news”

  80. @supaflyrvguy2768

    May 24, 2026 at 2:44 pm

    I hope NOBODY ever relies on your reviews or reviews from CNET to make electronics decisions ever again. You are either scared to say what you really feel about the phone. Or you are paid off to not say anything bad about this phone.

  81. @McdVE

    May 24, 2026 at 3:24 pm

    Bro need to speak good about this phone
    …this is the most crazy review ever….

  82. @McdVE

    May 24, 2026 at 3:24 pm

    If U say anything bad lawsuit incoming

  83. @lazchurchyard1229

    May 24, 2026 at 5:17 pm

    Piss yellow. The only golden is a shower in Russia.

  84. @1mezion

    May 24, 2026 at 6:46 pm

    Don’t think I’ve ever seen a more awkward review

  85. @zeethree

    May 25, 2026 at 12:57 am

    Is the default ringtone YMCA?

    • @dshvarts

      May 26, 2026 at 9:59 pm

      Ave Maria

  86. @Raze0Encrypted

    May 25, 2026 at 1:26 am

    taking something created by someone else and rebranding as something “he created” is the whole legacy of this presidency. very american lol.

  87. @Stan_sprinkle

    May 25, 2026 at 8:59 am

    I still don’t get the Taco Bell analogy (vs any other food where you can make substitutions)

  88. @bonginkosinkosi2152

    May 25, 2026 at 9:34 am

    Never seen so much tip toeing in a phone review

  89. @mikegeekie9125

    May 25, 2026 at 1:38 pm

    The Bottom Line: The project serves as a classic textbook case of white-labeling—taking an existing, slightly older foreign phone design, applying custom branding and gold aesthetics, and marketing it at a premium price point to a dedicated audience.

  90. @evancycles

    May 25, 2026 at 9:28 pm

    CNET tried to thread the needle without triggering an unwelcome reaction and everything that comes with it.

  91. @KTPurdy

    May 26, 2026 at 12:03 am

    Anyone guess how long before the paint wears off?

  92. @Dracauphone

    May 26, 2026 at 3:39 am

    So it’s basically a golden overpriced HTC U24 pro

  93. @peterpramshafer933

    May 26, 2026 at 4:07 am

    I’m watching this on my pixel 9a running android 17 qpr1 bata 3.

  94. @wetrucken1689

    May 26, 2026 at 4:55 am

    You mean the best person ever to help you like CBS sending you their phone!! Lol. 😂hahahaha

  95. @jonathan-6513

    May 26, 2026 at 6:02 am

    HTC typically provides a limited software lifecycle for its devices—often prioritizing only two years of security patches and no major Android version upgrades. Because the phone launched with Android 14 in mid-2024, its official OS support will likely end at Android 15

    So….😂

  96. @Memento_Disco

    May 26, 2026 at 8:39 am

    A cellular pig in a poke – shocked lol

  97. @MisterE-m9q

    May 26, 2026 at 9:29 am

    Garbage phone from a garbage president

  98. @notsodelusional

    May 26, 2026 at 1:57 pm

    TLDR. IT SUCKS

  99. @snakerb

    May 26, 2026 at 9:01 pm

    This reminds me of the Escobar phone.

  100. @Kurto2021

    May 26, 2026 at 9:56 pm

    Why the F wouldn’t you get the HTC phone and compare them.

  101. @borasok5558

    May 27, 2026 at 12:30 am

    Similar performance as Pixel 6 💀

  102. @a9ball1

    May 27, 2026 at 5:58 am

    From what I can find it’s not a bad price for a 512g phone.

    I want to know what launcher it has?
    What UI?
    I want to see a screenshot of the settings under system.

  103. @James-ke5sx

    May 27, 2026 at 6:22 am

    Plastic!

  104. @obscureinterest4319

    May 27, 2026 at 8:33 am

    If it was actually assembled in the US, theyd have media in the factories to gloat. The fact we haven’t seen that is pretty much proof they are being manipulative.

  105. @cfq.tufanuf

    May 27, 2026 at 8:33 am

    Settings.. About Phone.. Details info and specs.
    How can you not find the info???????

  106. @AnakinReallyHateSandSkywalker

    May 27, 2026 at 9:18 am

    Stripper phone, if there ever was such a thing

  107. @IsraelMorris-t8l

    May 27, 2026 at 1:48 pm

    599 for a 3 year old phone is a rip-off. 199 max .old model old software old Google operating system. Suckers buy.

  108. @Nandu_K_S_91

    May 28, 2026 at 1:11 pm

    Worst phone and review

  109. @markbauermeister5449

    May 28, 2026 at 1:46 pm

    The review is way too charitable. I know inflation is a thing and my phone is a few years old now, but I feel for 500 bucks there’s still phones with metal and glass backs.

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