Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby

I don't know a ton about Freddie or his communication business, so want to separate that out.

That said, the Figgers branded devices seem to be pure scamming. Chinese reclones that are outright lying about specs, from everything I've read.

I'll tell you the tale of Fred Figgers, The baby was found by trash diggers, He just wasn't wanted, The kids often taunted, But his confidence only grew bigger.

I have too much time on my hands.

I don't want to be down on the man at all either, but unfortunately what you just said very much follows from a combination of a deprived upbringing lacking in the education necessary for understanding the technology a young boy glorifies inevitably as a status symbol and a harsh socio economic dividing line, in combination with the obviously profound torment he must have felt and endured and focused into a controllable energy that was the stigma of his unfortunate circumstances of birth.

Take everything this guy says with a grain of salt. His phone business appears to be a scam.

These paragraphs caught my eye:

> The Figgers F3, which went on sale in 2019, contains a chip designed to enable wireless charging whenever the phone is within five metres of a "super base charger" - a device that has been awaiting approval by the FCC.

> The marketing of the F3 caused controversy, with some bloggers arguing that not all of the first model's features were as up-to-date as they said they had been led to believe.

Some quick Googling shows that the Figgers F3 is actually just a rebranded $200 Oukitel u23.

Figgers apparently claimed that the phone had wireless charging at a range of 5 meters (impossible), a Snapdragon 855 (it has a cheap MediaTek chipset), a 4K screen (it doesn't), and 1TB of storage (only 128GB built-in, but it has a microSD card slot).

You can also find press releases saying "Figgers F3 is first 5G smartphone made in America with 5-meter wireless charging" which is clearly untrue, as Oukitel is a Chinese company and the Oukitel u23 is made in China.

More drama with trying to pay off YouTube influencers can be found on Reddit. Supposedly Figgers tried to pay a YouTuber $34,000 to shill the phone, but the YouTubers have turned on them after realizing it was a scam: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/gtujqx/figgers_wir...

It appears this guy's phone company is a scam, regardless of the truth of his origin story.

These are outdated narratives. Network effects are much more the cause of success of such people ie where they were geographically and who they were surrounded by - https://www.nfx.com/post/your-life-network-effects/