Could Trump’s phone be a good phone?

We’ve long had doubts about Trump’s phone. Since its debut, the device — technically called the Trump Mobile T1 Phone 8002 — has It is impossible to implement completely As advertised. The Trump Mobile team has also spent the past eight months moving goalposts and rapidly changing specifications and manufacturing Increasingly vague promises Regarding the fact that the phone is American made. We’ve wondered many times if there was a Trump phone at all.

on This episode of vertcastWe talk to one of… Only people who have seen one. This person is Edge‘s Dominic Prestonwho has been covering Trump’s phone for months and who took a virtual look at the device last week. Dom joins the show to tell us about the surprise reveal, what we now know about the phone itself, and whether the thing will actually ship.

after that, Edge‘s Haydenfield Explains how OpenClaw and Moltbook were able to capture several Silicon Valley AI fantasies at once. OpenClaw seems like a big deal right awaya powerful and dangerous way to enable AI agents to operate with all the access and knowledge they need to be truly useful. (And again, really dangerous.) Moltbook, on the surface Only the AI ​​agent handles RedditSeems like modernity. However, it is still there He is Something cool about watching robots interact with each other.

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