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.