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BREAKING: Wall Street Journal Says Elon Musk Showed Investors a “Secret Phone” Behind Closed Doors

The smartphone wars may restart — and a little-known $0.52 startup may have already built the exact future the tech giants are racing toward.

Wall Street Journal: SpaceX showed investors prototype of Elon Musk’s new AI device
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On July 1st, the Wall Street Journal published a report that most people scrolled right past.

They shouldn’t have.

According to the Journal’s sources, SpaceX quietly showed a small group of investors a prototype of a handset-like AI device.

Slimmer than an iPhone.

Running its own operating system.

With Grok — Elon Musk’s AI — built directly inside.

A secret device almost nobody was supposed to know about.

And here’s the part that makes this more than a rumor

This wasn’t the first clue.

Back in February, Reuters reported that SpaceX had plans for a Starlink phone. They even noted that SpaceX filed to trademark the name “Starlink Mobile.”

Two of the most respected news organizations in the world.

Two separate reports, months apart.

Both pointing at the same conclusion:

Elon Musk appears to be coming for the smartphone.

And we believe a tiny startup — with shares currently priced at just $0.52 — could be one of the biggest beneficiaries of what happens next.

We’ll get to that company in a moment.

But first, you need to understand why the phone matters so much to Elon. Because once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

The One Hole in Elon’s Empire

Elon Musk deep in thought

Think about everything Elon Musk controls today.

Rockets, with SpaceX.

Satellites, with Starlink — beaming internet down from space with no cables and no cell towers.

Artificial intelligence, with Grok.

Social media, with X.

He even pays X users real money for their posts. Think about that for a second — getting paid for your everyday online activity. Not a concept. Not a pitch. Already happening.

So Elon controls the rockets, the satellites, the internet connection, the AI, and the platform.

But there’s one giant hole in the empire.

The device in your pocket.

Every hour you spend on your phone right now flows through Apple or Google.

They control the screen.

They take the cut.

They own the relationship with billions of people.

And Elon owns none of it.

That’s why the secret prototype reports make so much sense. Look at the trail of breadcrumbs:

The Starlink direct-to-cell service with T-Mobile

The “Starlink Mobile” trademark filing

Grok, an AI assistant that needs a home screen to live on

A social platform that already pays users for their attention

Every piece points at the same missing piece.

The phone.

Elon Isn’t the Only One Racing Toward This

Here’s where the story gets bigger than one billionaire.

OpenAI — the creator of ChatGPT — hired Jony Ive, the legendary Apple designer behind the iPhone, to build their own AI device.

Stop and think about what that means.

The man who designed the device that won the first smartphone war is now building hardware for the AI era.

The biggest names in technology are all quietly converging on the same conclusion:

The smartphone wars are about to restart.

Except this time, the battle isn’t about cameras or screen sizes.

It’s about AI.

And — this is the part almost everyone is missing — it’s about who pays YOU.

What History Teaches Us About Platform Wars

Now, here’s why this matters so much for investors.

History has shown us, over and over again, that when a massive new platform war begins, it doesn’t just create one winner.

It creates an entire ecosystem of winners around it.

Consider what happened when Tesla surged and electric vehicles went mainstream.

The companies supplying that revolution exploded:

Piedmont Lithium ran from $6 to $80 — a 13x move.

Piedmont Lithium price chart
Piedmont Lithium (PLL) price history. Source: TradingView.

Modine Manufacturing went from $10 to $220 — a 22x move.

Modine Manufacturing price chart
Modine Manufacturing (MOD) price history. Source: TradingView.

Then it happened again with AI.

When Nvidia took off and artificial intelligence went mainstream:

TSSI went up 50x in just two years.

TSS Inc price chart
TSS, Inc. (TSSI) price history. Source: TradingView.

PSIX skyrocketed 30x.

Power Solutions International price chart
Power Solutions International (PSIX) price history. Source: TradingView.

One platform shift. Dozens of massive winners orbiting around it.

To be clear: those are historical examples from public markets, and past performance never guarantees future results.

But the pattern is worth studying.

Because the question every smart investor should be asking right now is simple:

If the secret prototype reports are true… if the smartphone really is the next battleground… who benefits?

Here’s the Smart Part

You don’t have to bet on whether Elon builds his own phone.

Or buys his way in.

Or partners with someone.

Because whichever way it goes, the direction is the same.

The phone is transforming from a device you pay for

Into a device that pays you.

Elon already proved the concept on X — paying people for their posts, paying people for their attention.

Now imagine that same idea applied to everything you do on your phone.

Actually, you don’t have to imagine it.

Because there’s a company that already built it.

A little-known private company that reinvented the smartphone years before the giants started circling.

Meet the Company That Built the “EarnPhone”

Mode Mobile — $325M+ earned and saved by users

Right now, the average person spends nearly 40 hours a week on their phone.

Scrolling. Streaming music. Playing games. Watching videos. Shopping.

Forty hours. Every week. That’s a full-time job.

And what do most people have to show for it?

Nothing.

The platforms get rich off your attention. You get nothing.

One company decided to change that.

They built something called the EarnPhone — a smartphone that actually pays you:

For listening to music

For charging your phone

For playing games

For watching videos

For surfing the web

In other words, for doing the things you’re already doing anyway.

And the results?

Their users have collectively earned and saved over $1 billion.

That’s not a typo. One billion dollars in total value earned and saved by users — just for using their phones.

This is the exact concept the tech giants are now chasing.

Elon pays people on X.

This company pays people on the entire phone.

They didn’t wait for the smartphone wars to restart. They started early.

The company is called Mode Mobile.

And right now, everyday investors can buy shares for just $0.52 — before a potential public listing.

The Proof Behind the Story

Mode Mobile EarnPhone — 4+ trillion hours spent globally on smartphones per year

A great story is worthless without numbers behind it. So let’s look at what Mode Mobile has actually done.

Explosive, verified growth. Mode Mobile was ranked the #1 fastest-growing software company in North America by Deloitte, with 32,481% three-year revenue growth.

Real revenue. They’ve already generated over $115 million in total revenue. This isn’t a pre-revenue idea on a napkin.

Global reach. Their products are already in 170 countries.

Major retail shelves. You can find them at Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon, and Target — the same shelves where the iPhone sits.

A Nasdaq ticker, reserved. Mode Mobile already has its ticker symbol reserved: $MODE. Think about that. A Nasdaq ticker is already waiting for them. (Reserving a ticker does not guarantee an IPO will happen, or when — but it tells you where management intends to go.)

Notable names paying attention. Kevin Harrington — one of the original Shark Tank investors — is an investor in the company. And Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, recently sat down with Mode’s CEO to discuss the future of their technology.

Let that sink in.

The man who helped build the device that started the first smartphone war…

Is keeping a close eye on a company positioned for the next one.

Turning Your Phone Into an Income-Generating Asset

Here’s the simplest way to understand what Mode Mobile is doing.

Uber turned your car into an income-generating asset.

Airbnb turned your home into an income-generating asset.

Mode Mobile is turning your phone into an income-generating asset.

And the market for that idea is staggering.

There are roughly 7 billion smartphones on Earth right now.

Mode’s technology — their EarnOS operating system — can run on Android phones today. No new hardware required.

That means every one of those billions of devices is a potential EarnPhone.

That’s a trillion-dollar market opportunity hiding in plain sight — inside the device you’re probably holding right now.

Why You Can Invest Before an IPO (When That Used to Be Impossible)

Now you might be wondering — how can regular investors even buy shares in a private company?

Up until a few years ago, they couldn’t.

Getting into a company before it went public was reserved for the rich. The insiders. The venture capitalists.

Regular investors had to wait for the IPO — by which point the insiders had often already captured the lion’s share of the gains.

But thanks to a change in U.S. securities law, everyday investors can now invest in private companies through what’s called a Regulation A+ offering.

That means anyone — not just the wealthy, not just the connected — can invest.

You. Me. Everyday people.

Getting in at the same $0.52 per share — before the rest of the market even knows this company exists.

The Question Worth Asking Yourself

Let’s run one final thought experiment.

If you had put $10,000 into Tesla’s suppliers before Tesla took off, history shows you could have turned that into $130,000, $220,000, or more.

If you had put $10,000 into TSSI before the AI boom hit, you’d be sitting on over $500,000 today.

We are not saying Mode Mobile is guaranteed to do that. Nothing in investing is guaranteed, and early-stage private investments carry real risk — including the loss of your investment.

But ask yourself this:

What’s the bigger risk?

Putting a modest amount into a company as unconventional as Mode — already growing, already backed by an original Shark Tank investor, already on shelves at Walmart and Best Buy, with a Nasdaq ticker reserved and a potential IPO on the horizon?

Or sitting on the sidelines while reports swirl about secret phone prototypes…

While the biggest names in tech race toward the exact future Mode already built…

And watching other investors get in at $0.52 a share while you waited?

How to Review the Offering

Shares of Mode Mobile are currently available to everyday investors at $0.52 per share through their Regulation A+ offering.

This opportunity — at this price — likely won’t last long.

Click the button below to review the offering and secure your position in Mode Mobile while shares are still available at $0.52.

Your future self may thank you for taking a closer look today.

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