You will have to pay $749 for a Trump phone.
Trump Mobile’s gold T1 phone now costs $749. That’s a $250 price hike from $499, making the T1 more expensive than the iPhone 17e. The price hike was first reported by The edgewho also noted that the provider had not made an announcement on the matter and had simply quietly updated its website.
Although Trump Mobile hasn’t explained why the T1 now costs significantly more, tech companies have recently raised prices on their products across the board due to skyrocketing RAM costs. No one is safe from RAMageddon, what people call the memory chip shortage problem currently plaguing the electronics industry due to the massive development of AI. In fact, Apple just raised prices on older iPhones by $100, nearly three months after raising prices on iPads (up to $200), MacBooks (up to $500), and its Mac Studio computer (up to $1,300).
In addition, the increase in the price of T1 seems expected. Trump Mobile executives previously said the $499 price was just an introductory price and that buyers could pay $999 in the future. Note that an iFixit teardown revealed that the phone is not made in the United States, as Trump Mobile initially claimed, and is instead a reskinned version of an HTC phone.
