Someone out-Trumped the Trump phone

Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week . We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. This week, Trump Mobile has been trumped. It’s been another long week without the Trump phone, but it’s no longer the only nonexistent phone I have to worry about. Robot vacuum manufacturer Dreame has announced its own set of phones that are unlikely to ever launch, and one of them takes the Trump phone playbook and amps it up to 11. I was alerted to the existence of Dreame’s two new phones shortly after I filed last week’s report on the T1 Phone’s PTCRB certification , though they “launched” last Thursday at a flashy event in San Francisco. They’d actually already been announced in China in March, but no one seemed to notice, not least because there was no sign of any release date, pricing, or actual specs. That makes them look an awful lot like vaporware, though in fairness that’s still preferable to a phonemaker operated by the president’s sons and accused of “false advertising and deceptive practices” by lawmakers . Another point in Dreame’s defense is that it at least had physical phones on display at its launch event, which is more than I could say for Trump Mobile so far. Its phones are ambitious too, even if that’s part of why I’m confident they’ll never truly launch. …