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Last week I Issue a reminder Trump Mobile’s T1 Phone doesn’t exist, and may never exist, despite the fact that the company Show me the phone Trying to convince me otherwise. Instead, today I bring reason for optimism for Trump phone believers: it appears to have been approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
FCC listings. The smartphones bearing the brand name “T1” show that it was tested late last year, and received certification from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in January. This is in line with what two Trump Mobile executives told me last month when I saw the phone, when they claimed it had already been certified.
The documents in the listing have been redacted, which is typical for public FCC listings, and therefore do not include any pictures or photographs of the phone. It also doesn’t confirm many interesting specifications, other than Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6E support. They didn’t mention Trump, Trump Mobile, or even the carrier’s parent company Liberty Mobile, which is why it’s taken me until now to find them. Instead, the phone was submitted for testing by another company entirely: Smart Gadgets Global, LLC. and this Why am I so confident this is Trump’s phone.
Global smart gadgets Website It promises to “manufacture high quality electronics for your customer!” It claims to offer “product development, material sourcing, and production all the way through to the final packaging of your product or private labeling of one of our products.” The site is as old and bug-ridden as any other Trump Mobile site I’ve found so far, with a blank “Store” section, a “Terms and Conditions” page consisting only of instructions on how to write terms and conditions, and a privacy policy listed as “Coming Soon.” There’s also a chatbot, but it couldn’t tell me anything at all about the T1 phone, where Smart Gadgets Global makes its products, or even what the company actually does.
Smart Gadgets Global may be a new name to me, but its CEO is not: Eric Thomas, one of the two Trump Mobile executives I spoke to last month. I needed to make sure this was it same Eric Thomas But that proved easy enough: Smart Gadgets Global’s FCC documents list an address in Ogden, Utah — exactly the same address listed as a PO Box for building and Prospecting Companies owned by Eric Thomas who I met. Then there’s the one product identifiable on the Smart Gadgets Global website among a sea of generic offerings: a branded health tracker Vimed Mobile. It appears to be manufactured before SMART TOOLS LIMITED.a company headquartered in Shenzhen, China, claims to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vmedical, Inc. – Where Thomas holds the position of CEO.
I reached out to Thomas and Trump Mobile, and neither responded. I tried Thomas at the Smart Gadgets Global email address listed in the FCC documents as well, but did not receive a response there either, nor did I receive a response to a request I made using Smart Gadgets Global’s contact form. I also tried calling the number listed as Thomas’ number on the FCC applications, but after I told the automated call screening software my identity, whoever was on the other side of that number decided not to answer my call. I have also contacted Eurofins, the testing laboratory listed in some of the documents, but have not received a response. For good measure, T-Mobile tried again, to see if it had finished certifying the T1 phone, but the company declined to comment.
The FCC certification does not guarantee that Trump’s phone will be released soon, or at all. But the most evidence is that Trump Mobile is at least attempt To manufacture and launch a type of phone. The jury is still out on whether or not it will actually work.
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