Trump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone

[Beachnutt]

cnbc
The Trump Organization on Monday unveiled a mobile phone plan and a $499 smartphone that is set to launch in September.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/trump-mobile-phone-plan.html

More grifting from the con.

[EarlG]

1. In what is surely completely unrelated news...

A smuggled North Korean smartphone reveals how the regime censors information, including screenshotting users activities every five minutes

The phone, which was smuggled out of the country late last year by a Seoul-based media organization, Daily NK, and later obtained by the BBC, was programmed to censor certain language and record screenshots of the user’s activity. The smartphone does not have access to the internet as North Korea blocks information from outside the country.

According to a BBC report, the smartphone takes screenshots of the user’s actions every five minutes and saves them in a file the user can see but not open. Only the North Korean authorities can open the files, allowing them to review what users are looking at.

Popular South Korean words like “oppa,” which literally translates to big brother but has become South Korean slang for a boyfriend, are automatically replaced with the word “comrade.” Users also receive a warning; in this example, it said: “This word can only be used to describe your siblings.”

The Korean word for “South Korea” is also replaced with “puppet state.”

https://fortune.com/2025/06/04/north-korea-smartphone-censorship-screenshots-every-five-minutes/

[Historic NY]

2. Are they coming from Israel....

I heard they had some left overs from GAZA.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/27/middleeast/israel-pager-attack-hezbollah-lebanon-invs-intl]

[newdeal2]

3. Crickets from Congress

At least it will be easier to spot the closet MAGAts out in public.

[gab13by13]

4. The price of the phone isn't what gets you,

Verizon will give me a new phone along with upping my internet service.

[hatrack]

5. So, pay $500 for the phone, get an email that it will arrive in two weeks . . . .

Then, crickets.

[Brainfodder]

6. He won't be personally spying on your intimate moments and texts and it won't come loaded with spyware?

THEN WHAT A DEAL, and if you act now 10% off bibles and shoes?

Every 1000000 buyers will get a concept of possible fist pump scenario with the President in the White during his very busy schedule?

If you buy 10+ offers you get a photo, random one, might even be of your favorite President, only $200 for shipping!?!

[ananda]

7. Yep. First question: qui bono?

And I think we know who?