Carcharodonna [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days agoTrump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphonewww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square36linkfedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down10cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.worldBoycottUnitedStates@europe.pub
arrow-up167arrow-down1external-linkTrump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphonewww.cnbc.comCarcharodonna [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square36linkfedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldpolitics@lemmy.worldBoycottUnitedStates@europe.pub
minus-squareOldSoulHippie [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoWhich is interesting because the idea of a free phone from the government came during the Reagan administration if I recall correctly
minus-squarefootfaults@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoYep. I think the difference was that Obama updated it to be a cellular phone instead of a landline. Ah, memories
minus-squareOldSoulHippie [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI got one sent to me in the mail completely unsolicited. When I tried to turn off the location, it wouldn’t let me so I stopped using it.
Which is interesting because the idea of a free phone from the government came during the Reagan administration if I recall correctly
Yep. I think the difference was that Obama updated it to be a cellular phone instead of a landline.
Ah, memories
I got one sent to me in the mail completely unsolicited. When I tried to turn off the location, it wouldn’t let me so I stopped using it.