The Trump organization Makes headlines last week If the trump mobile launch is announced, a cell service with plans to release a gold phone in September. One of its marketing points, according to the website, is that the T1 phone is “proudly made by America,” though that is can’t see this what happens When the phone launches, Among other issues.
An independent phone-based phone-based, however, working at the nearest item on a smartphone nearby all in the US: the $ 1,999 Liberty Phone. Purism, which is before 2014, says its handset, with a 5.7-inch screen called Texas and California nearly all in production and the assembly performed at all.
The exceptions, According to its websiteInclude a chassis made of china and some chip components from China or India. The NXP’s primary processor produced by Austin-based and originally intended for cars.
According to Wall Street JournalThe phone’s battery and screen from China and the back facing camera is made in South Korea. That is likely due to existence: In case of screens, no US manufacturers currently form smartphone
In a CNET email, the founder Toded Weaver said Liberty Phone is sold with the label “made by the electriconics of the Federal Trade Commission. The Weaver declares the T1 T1 to meet the same standards.
“FTC has taken these claims that are very serious and this is my strong belief that the implementation seems to be in a timely manner,” Weaver’s letter. “No, you can’t put an American flag on a color gold cover and claim that one is gathered, and one definitely not made.”
A representative for Trump Mobile does not immediately respond to a request for commentary.
The possibility of phones made of american
Trump mobile launches have questions if it is possible to create a smartphone completely in the US and release it at a price most customers can. Almost all modern smartphones have parts gathering primarily in China or other countries including South Korea, Vietnam or India.
Wavever tells the journal That his company sells less than 100,000 at a company cost of about $ 650 each and does not expect to compete with the most recent iPhone or Samsung devices.
“On the consumer side, it is security geeks, parents who want a phone for their child, old people or people who want to avoid big tech,” Weaver says his customers. “The one who needs a wicked solid camera is not our audience.”
Some estimates suggest that if Apple makes an iPhone perfect in the US, the price of a phone can As of $ 3,500 Due to higher costs and the price of building infrastructure in production.
“We continue to believe that it does not make logicical meaning for Apple, or any other smartphone manufacturer for that item, with mass devices of Angelo Zino, an analyst of Vice and Equity Analysts to CFRA Research that tracks the data in the supply chain.
In addition to the higher labor costs and smaller US semiconductor manufacturers, Zino says the construction of what is supposed to make the highest smartphone.
“The entire world electronics ecosystem has spent decades optimized around Asia,” Zino said. To fully return the US phone production, he said, “It will require decades of decades of investment in infrastructure, and cannot be) in months.”
However, high tariffs can cause the devices that make some of their production in the United States, he said.
