Someone out-Trumped the Trump phone

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FollowSee All MobileSomeone out-Trumped the Trump phoneThe glitzy Dreame Aurora Lux is what the Trump phone wishes it was. The glitzy Dreame Aurora Lux is what the Trump phone wishes it was. by Dominic Preston Dominic PrestonNews EditorPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.

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FollowSee All by Dominic PrestonMay 8, 2026, 5:38 PM UTC These are just five of the 29 versions of the Aurora Lux that Dreame claims it will release. Screenshot: DreamePart OfWe’re still talking about the Trump phonesee all updates Dominic Preston Dominic PrestonPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. FollowSee All by Dominic Preston is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism.

He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. 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.

Industry Implications

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.

One is a modular device with detachable action cam and AI accessories, but the other is arguably stranger: the Aurora Lux is supposedly going to be available in an absurd 29 different designs, most of them coated in gems, gold, or both. They come with names as extraordinary as their designs. Axiom Shield looks like a Pixel 10 wrapped in snakeskin.

This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.