Get yer overpriced, Chinese- made Freedom Freedumb Phone, loaded with free fascist apps and social media, brought to you by a MAGAt bitcoin millionaire:
The pro-Trump internet went wild on Wednesday for the Freedom Phone, a $500 smartphone that comes stocked with conservative apps and promises to liberate anyone else who buys it from Silicon Valley censorship. The American flag-branded phone was immediately promoted by a wide range of right-wing figures, including former Trump adviser Roger Stone, Jan. 6 rally organizer Ali Alexander, and pundit Dinesh D’Souza. [snip]
Despite being lauded by some of the right-wing media’s leading figures, though, the Freedom Phone’s buyers could be getting less than they expect for its $500 price tag. That’s because the Freedom Phone appears to be merely a more expensive rebranding of a budget Chinese phone available elsewhere for a fraction of the Freedom Phone’s price. [snip]
Freedom Phone’s website is nearly totally devoid of technical information about the device. [Creator and bitcoin millionaire Erik] Finman declares in the promotional video that the Freedom Phone is “comparable to the best smartphones on the market” and “truly is the best phone in the world.”
In fact, Freedom Phone appears to be a simple rebranding of a budget phone called the “Umidigi A9 Pro,” made by the Chinese tech company Umidigi. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Finman confirmed that the Freedom Phone was manufactured by Umidigi, but couldn’t say immediately which Umidigi phone it was based on.
The Freedom Phone’s $500 price tag would represent a substantial markup on the Umidigi A9 Pro. That phone is available on Chinese retail giant AliExpress for $120 — less than one quarter of the price of a Freedom Phone.
Well, we're certainly not opposed to MAGAts spending too much money on a cheap phone with lots of crackpot disinformation pre- loaded. Sheep exist to be shorn. We just wonder if there's anything else that may have been pre- loaded into those phones -- hmmm, like secret tracking devices, or mind- altering algorithms, or micro moonbeams -- watch out, MAGAts!1!, because they might turn out to be just another Cinco-Fone:
(Image: Get Dumb! Freedumb Phone with paid endorser?)
