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The website failed, went to an error page, and then charged my credit card the wrong amount of $64.70. I received a confirmation email saying I’ll receive a confirmation when my order has been shipped, but I haven’t provided a shipping address or paid the full $499 price tag. It is the worst experience I’ve ever faced buying a consumer electronic product and I have no idea whether or how I’ll receive the phone.

I look forward to learning more about how terrible these phones turn out.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Let me guess. It's a rebranded Chinese phone that typically goes for like 50 bucks?

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

Yep, apparently it's a cosmetically tweaked Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro 5G, which goes for $170 under the T-Mobile brand on Amazon.

Eric Trump admitted it was going to be made in China, so the press release's description, "designed and built in the United States," is just a lie, or actually two lies.

'Eventually': Eric Trump admits new mobile phone isn't being made in the USA

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

cosmetically tweaked

It would have to be super tweaked considering the phone you referenced has four cameras, and a notch style front camera.

My bet is that this is a 10 second photoshop job and the actual phone will look nothing like that.

I mean if you do a difference blend of two of the cameras, you get a perfectly black circle (minus some blending at the edges):

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This means that the cameras are exact pixel-perfect copies of each other arranged in that order by photoshop. They don't exist on any phone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Yes, I wouldn't assume the picture has anything to do with the phone (if any) people will actually receive.

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