Trump Mobile Misses T1 Phone Shipments 1 Year After Launch as $100 Deposits Keep Coming
Updated
Updated · The Verge · Jun 15
Trump Mobile Misses T1 Phone Shipments 1 Year After Launch as $100 Deposits Keep Coming
3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Jun 15
Summary
More than a month after Trump Mobile said the $499 T1 had started shipping, regular buyers still appear not to have received phones, even though media outlets and reviewers have seen sample units.
A year after the June 2025 launch, the company has repeatedly missed August, September, March and later delivery targets while quietly softening its original claim that the phone was "designed and built" in the United States.
Trump Mobile now says the device is assembled in Miami, but executives would not say where it is made beforehand; reporting tied the phone closely to HTC's U24 Pro, a model made in China.
At least $2.7 million in deposits may be tied to roughly 27,224 apparent preorder records from a website breach, far below unsupported viral claims of 600,000 orders.
The delays and murky sourcing underscore how little evidence exists that Trump Mobile has produced the T1 at scale, even after FCC and Google certifications confirmed the phone itself exists.