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The Trump Organization teases the $499 "T1 Phone", a "sleek, gold" phone "designed and built" in the US, and Trump Mobile, based on AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/trum

Trump Mobile: President's Company Unveils 5G Wireless Service
President Trump and his family are getting into the wireless business, in partnership with the three major U.S. carriers.

I'm now getting several political spam texts a day. This is a recent escalation and I've done my best to keep my cell phone number a secret for several years now. Politicians are ruining text messaging, just like they ruined phone lines.
So far my Google Pixel is doing a pretty good job blocking most of them as spam. But that's going to be a losing battle.

"NFC is getting a range boost"
Sure, what could go wrong?
https://www.theverge.com/news/689281/nfc-15-update-tap-to-pay-range-boost

Posted here the other day about getting a #pinephone, so I guess I should update. As I was half-expecting, it's not usable for me as a main phone (though I should still try LineageOS before giving up completely).
I had the Linux skills to hack through a lot of the problems that came up, but the shaky state of Android emulation meant I'd never be able to run key apps I wanted to, and the battery life is abysmal due to fundamental OS issues (plus probably some hardware stuff).
Still a super interesting platform and I've got ideas for uses besides being my main phone.

@… The whole AOSP management is exhausting, isn’t it?
That’s good to know. My iPhone is 5 years old and still works fine… I could see myself getting a new phone for GrapheneOS and keeping this one around.

After 2 years and 9 months, the health of my phone's battery is getting poor. So in 30 seconds time, I ordered a new one. That is about 3x the amount of time it will take me to replace the old one with it. #Fairphone