Trump Mobile made a $ 499 smartphone in the United States during this summer with some specifications that exceed high -end Apple iPhones, and for a price fraction, they have industry experts who call it foolish gold.
The telephone T1 presented by President Eric and Donald Trump Jr. It will have an AMOLED screen of 6.8 inches, 256 GB of storage with expandable memory and a matrix of subsequent cameras of 50 megapixels, according to its website.
The Apple 16 Pro Max iPhone, mainly in China, also offers a 6.8 -inch screen and 256 storage gigabytes, but the rear camera is based on 48 megapixels, and costs $ 1,199.
“There is absolutely no way to do the screen, obtain this memory, camera, drums, everything” in the United States, Tinglong Dai, a business professor at Johns Hopkins University, told the Wall Street Journal.
He estimated that it would take “at least five years” to build the necessary infrastructure for the production of domestic smartphones.
Eric Trump even found that the T1 will be manufactured and mounted completely in the United States with the scheduled August launch date during an interview on Monday with Podcaster Benny Johnson.
Keeping what a golden iPhone looked like, said: “You can build these phones in the United States. Finally, all phones can be built in the United States of America. We need to return to manufacture here.”
The company said in a statement that Android -based telephone would be “proudly designed and built in the United States.”
Trump Mobile has not revealed where the first wave of T1 phones will be built or which suppliers will provide the components.
The publication has sought comments from Trump Mobile.
“If the Trump telephone promises a $ 499 price label with home manufacturing, this ad seems to be of classic fumes,” said Todd Weaver, CEO of Purism, in reference to the unlikely that a phone manufactured in the United States is available at this price.
Given the technical specifications and the price point of $ 499, analysts believe that early units could cause Chinese manufacturers such as Xiaomi or OPPOs, who have the ability to produce android premium phones at this cost.
Smartphones occur through a complex global supply chain.
Key components such as processors are normally designed in the United States and are manufactured in Taiwan, screens come from South Korea, Japan camera sensors (SONY) and several other parts of suppliers in China, Europe and South -East Asian.
The final assembly is usually in China, India or Vietnam in massive contracts manufacturers such as Foxconn, Pegatron or Compal.
Dai said that the current industrial focus in the United States is to regain leadership in semiconductors and other critical technologies, not in the assembly of smartphones.
Last month, President Trump threatened Apple with a 25% rate for any iPhone sold, but not in the United States, making a new pressure on CEO Tim Cook to move Asia’s manufacture.
One of the areas where a fast launch is more feasible is Trump Mobile’s wireless service.
Like other MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators), Trump Mobile can lease the capacity of existing carriers and offer their own brand plans, just as Mint Mobile did so before being acquired by T-Mobile.
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