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iFixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe

iFixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe
The Verge Thursday 11 June 2026, 10:40 UTC By Dominic Preston 1 min read
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This is the Trump phone, but it could just as easily be an HTC. | Image: Trump Mobile After getting its hands on a Trump phone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I first reported back in February: the T1 Phone is an almost exact duplicate of the HTC U24 Pro.

This is the Trump phone, but it could just as easily be an HTC. | Image: Trump Mobile

After getting its hands on a Trump phone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I first reported back in February: the T1 Phone is an almost exact duplicate of the HTC U24 Pro.

iFixit partnered with NBC to get hold of the network's media sample of the Trump phone, along with a U24 Pro. They ran the phones through a CT scanner, tore them down to parts, and even put them back together into a functional Frankenstein phone with the U24 Pro's board inside the T1 Phone's chassis, confirming along the way that the two phones are functionally identical.

There are minor differences: the flash has been moved slightly, the speaker grille was …

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