The Trump phone has been making headlines again over the past week, after iFixit tore it down and found it was nearly identical to the HTC U24 Pro, a Taiwanese phone released in mid-2024. I reviewed the T1 phone last month, and while it worked fine as a middle-of-the-road phone, we do have some relevant insights here.
iFixit's findings match up with CNET's benchmark testing, first of all, which also suggested a very close matchup with the HTC phone:
Geekbench v.6.0 T1 Trump Mobile Phone 1,195 3,443 HTC U24 Pro 5G 1,141 3,213 Single-core
Multicore Note: Longer bars indicate better performance
The Trump phone's Geekbench results put it on par with the HTC U24 Pro 5G and also show that it has an eight-core processor, which could be the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 released in November 2023 -- Trump Mobile doesn't specify.
The specs of the Trump phone that we know also mirror the HTC phone. According to the Trump Mobile website, the T1 phone has these specs:
6.78-inch AMOLED screen
50-megapixel wide-angle camera
8-megapixel ultrawide camera
50-megapixel 2x telephoto camera
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