- JerryRigEverything puts the Trump Mobile T1 through scratch, bend, and teardown tests, with the phone surviving the physical punishment.
- The teardown reveals internals identical to the two-year-old HTC U24 Pro, reinforcing earlier findings from an iFixit investigation.
- Swapping the motherboards between the two phones leaves both fully functional, further proving their shared hardware origins.
Buying a phone is one thing. Watching someone scratch, bend, and rip it apart is an entirely different kind of satisfaction. The Trump Mobile T1 Phone has finally received that treatment from JerryRigEverything, and while it holds up surprisingly well against physical abuse, its insides tell a far less flattering story.
YouTuber Zack Nelson put the gold-colored handset through his usual durability tests, starting with the display, which scratches at level six on the Mohs hardness scale, with deeper grooves appearing at level seven. That’s fairly standard for a modern smartphone. The metal frame also checks out, and despite attempts to bend the device from both directions, the T1 Phone survives without snapping or suffering an obvious structural failure.
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