Spending just a single day with the Trump Phone T1 at a World Cup game wasn't enough to fully test it. That’s why I’ve been living with this $499 phone for over two weeks now, using it to try and capture Fourth of July fireworks and asking people what they thought about it.
It’s no secret that I like the phone's $499 price tag because it certainly puts it in contention for a best cheap phone contender, but it needs more than a low starting price to prove it’s worth buying. Once I began to look beyond its lustrous design and actually compare it to other phones I’ve been testing, I soon realized its shortcomings and why it's actually overpriced.