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I spent a week using the Trump phone — it sucks

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The T1 is a marketing stunt, not a serious phone. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Trump phone was never a serious phone. Not when it was announced last June, in dodgy renders and with an incoherent spec sheet. Nor when Trump Mobile admitted — just two weeks later — that it wouldn’t be made in the US. Not even when the company revealed the final phone, first to me over a video call in February and then to the world in April through a short commercial with the slick sheen of AI. It’s now on sale for $499, past the days of its tenuous, ever-shifting release dates. A few buyers even have the phone, The Verge among them, though more still seem not to. It’s clear now that the T1 is a real phone, but that doesn’t mean it’s a serious one. Still, for the next thousand words or so, I will t

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Google Play opens to third-party app stores on 22 July

This article was published on July 16, 2026 Google will start carrying third-party app stores inside Google Play on 22 July, after it and Epic dropped a bid to soften the court's order. It is a first for the US. Android has always let…

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Google Play opens to third-party app stores on 22 July

This article was published on July 16, 2026 Google will start carrying third-party app stores inside Google Play on 22 July, after it and Epic dropped a bid to soften the court's order. It is a first for the US. Android…

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It’s that time again: giveaway time.

Everyone asks Verge reviewers if we get to keep the gadgets, and the answer is no — but I can give them to you! Our third Today I’m Toying With giveaway is live, and I’m making it a regular Wednesday thing. You have to…

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I spent a week using the Trump phone — it sucks

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This article was published on July 16, 2026 Google will start carrying third-party app stores inside Google Play on 22 July, after it and Epic dropped a bid to soften the court's order. It is a first for the US. Android has always let…

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T2 · Outlet reportThe VergeJul 15, 2026

Everyone asks Verge reviewers if we get to keep the gadgets, and the answer is no — but I can give them to you! Our third Today I’m Toying With giveaway is live, and I’m making it a regular Wednesday thing. You have to enter to win each…

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