I held the Trump phone

我拿到了“特朗普手机”

It’s a midrange Android phone, alright. 这确实是一款中端安卓手机，没跑了。

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. We don’t have the phones we preordered yet, but this week included an unexpected in-person encounter with the T1. “特朗普手机”到底在哪儿？我们将每周持续关注。我们像往常一样联系了相关方，询问这款手机的下落。虽然我们预订的手机还没到货，但本周我意外地亲手接触到了这款 T1 手机。

You see a lot of interesting phones when you’re among tech journalists. I’m thinking of two in particular that I held this past week: One was solid gold, with ornate engravings. It was elaborately embellished, heavy — an actual work of art. The other was the Trump phone. 身处科技记者圈，你总能见到各种有趣的手机。我想到上周我拿过的两款手机：一款是纯金打造，上面有华丽的雕刻。它装饰精美，分量十足——简直是一件艺术品。而另一款就是“特朗普手机”。

I know. The Trump phone. The one announced almost a year ago that has shipped to almost nobody. But when you associate with tech enthusiasts from all over the country, you find some rare things. And suffice to say that someone managed to get this incredibly rare device. They weren’t supposed to be showing it around, but they let me hold it for a few minutes recently. 我知道，就是那款“特朗普手机”。它在一年前宣布推出，但几乎没人收到货。不过，当你与全国各地的科技爱好者交流时，总能发现一些稀罕物。可以说，有人确实搞到了这台极其罕见的设备。虽然他们本不该到处展示，但最近还是让我拿在手里把玩了几分钟。

The Trump phone is fairly light, with all the earmarks of a midrange Android device. It has curved sides reminiscent of Motorola Edge phones from previous years and a plastic back panel. The American flag and Trump Mobile inscription are gigantic and impossible to miss. The gold color treatment reads as, I’m sorry to say, pee-ish in certain lighting. It comes with a small, printed user manual in the box, which is sort of adorable. “特朗普手机”相当轻，具备了中端安卓设备的所有特征。它的侧面弧度让人想起几年前的摩托罗拉 Edge 系列，背板则是塑料材质。美国国旗和“Trump Mobile”的字样非常巨大，让人无法忽视。遗憾的是，在某些光线下，这种金色涂装看起来有点像尿液的颜色。包装盒里附带了一本小巧的印刷版用户手册，这倒显得有几分可爱。

This week, iFixit confirmed what we all knew deep in our hearts: The Trump phone is just a midrange HTC phone with a gold color treatment. Aside from coming with Truth Social predownloaded (you can uninstall it), it looks and feels exactly how I would expect a phone of that ilk to look and feel. 本周，iFixit 证实了我们内心深处的猜测：所谓的“特朗普手机”不过是一款换了金色涂装的中端 HTC 手机。除了预装了 Truth Social 应用（可以卸载）之外，它的外观和手感完全符合我对这类手机的预期。

As it happens, I met a tech YouTuber who goes by Technical Guruji in the same week, who also had a gold phone. But this wasn’t just a gold paint job. It was solid gold, custom engraved with an image of the Hindu god Ram and his devotee Hanuman. I can’t say I live a solid gold iPhone kind of lifestyle, but running my fingers over the elaborate engravings it was obvious how much painstaking work went into making it. 巧合的是，同一周我遇到了一位名叫 Technical Guruji 的科技博主，他手里也有一部金色的手机。但这不仅仅是镀金，而是纯金打造，上面定制雕刻了印度教神祇罗摩（Ram）及其信徒哈奴曼（Hanuman）的图案。我虽然过不上那种用纯金 iPhone 的生活，但当我用手指抚摸那些精细的雕刻时，能明显感觉到制作过程倾注了多少心血。

The gold iPhone that I held is one in a series of one. The Trump phone is one of… some? It seems that only a handful of reporters and influencers have gotten the phone, which was supposed to start shipping to customers last month. We haven’t gotten the phone that we preordered almost exactly a year ago. Neither have most other paying customers. The Trump phone is sort of close to being real, but for now, it’s only slightly easier to come by than an actual solid gold phone. 我拿到的那部金 iPhone 是独一无二的孤品。而“特朗普手机”呢？似乎只有少数记者和网红拿到了这款本应在上个月就开始向客户发货的手机。我们在一年前预订的手机至今未收到，大多数付费客户也一样。这款“特朗普手机”虽然离“真实存在”近了一步，但目前看来，它比真正的纯金手机也只是稍微容易搞到一点点而已。