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I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount (www.404media.co)
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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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[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fun fact, the alt right released a "Freedom Phone" after the jan 6 insurrection at the US capitol.

Spoilers: The phone was just brought from some no-brand Chinese company and then rebranded and sold for more. The "Freedom" is just called sideloading, which a Google Android phone could already do. And the CEO claim to have "build the OS" all by himself...

Like... some rich Millionaire trust fund kid with zero experience writing an entire android fork all by himself? 🤔

Its probably just spyware so the far right can monitor their cult followers. Once their leaders get into power, they'll just get purged like the brownshirts.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Very plausibly what started as a FBI monitoring tool which no longer has any staff with knowledge of the program anymore.