Counterfeit mobile phones have low reliability. They often fail during the first year of operation. To avoid acquiring such a device, you need to learn how to independently distinguish a fake.
Instructions
Step 1
The most counterfeit mobile phone brands are Nokia and iPhone. Much less often counterfeiters imitate Sony Ericsson. Blackberry, HTC, devices from other manufacturers are not counterfeited at all. A clear sign of counterfeiting is the presence of a suspiciously low price of an elite brand phone (Vertu, Mobiado).
Step 2
The surest signs of a fake phone are the presence of a touch screen and the ability to work with two SIM cards in the event that the original does not have such functions. The same applies to the possibility of receiving analogue TV broadcasting (such phones are equipped with large retractable antennas, which are not present in these devices of this model).
Step 3
If a phone with a Nokia logo under the screen has several icons printed directly on the front glass, and the logo itself is clearly different from the rest of the inscriptions on the device in the way of application, then you have a device from the Chinese company Haier, on which Nokia was laser-marked.
Step 4
In older fake models, the memory card was attached with glue. Nowadays it is impossible to distinguish a fake phone on this basis, since such devices have also begun to supply slots for memory cards. Often, however, counterfeit phones are equipped with slots for memory cards that differ from those used in the original.
Step 5
If the original has GPS, 3G and WiFi functions, all or part of them may be missing from the fake. In a fake phone, which lacks GPS, when you click on the icon of the mapping application, it simulates its loading, and then a stationary fragment of the map is displayed, which cannot be enlarged or moved.
Step 6
If the original phone runs on Android, Symbian, iPhone OS or Windows Phone, then the counterfeit only imitates the interface of these OS. Multitasking, even if present in the original, is usually absent. Very often there is not even Java. Clicking on the OVI or Abdroid Market icon on the fake device can open the Chinese content store Mrp Store.
Step 7
Often, counterfeit manufacturers not only make deliberate misprints in their trademarks, but also combine the marks of companies that are not related to each other. For example, a phone that is a fake Nokia may have the VAIO logo on the back, which, as you know, does not belong to Nokia at all, but Sony, and is used by them in relation not to phones, but to laptops. eye decoration, placing, for example, the first twenty digits of the number π on the back wall of the apparatus.
Step 8
Check how your phone camera works. A camera issued, say, for a 12-megapixel one, in a fake device may turn out to be 0.3-megapixel and without autofocus, a xenon flash - LED.
Step 9
A counterfeit phone may contain typing errors in the menu, including those caused by machine translation.
Step 10
By counterfeiting devices that have an OLED display and a capacitive touch sensor, counterfeit manufacturers can use conventional LCD displays and resistive sensors in their products. The latter react not to a light touch, but to a fairly strong pressure. True, a resistive sensor is not always a sign of a fake, for example, it is used in a real Huawei Ideos phone.
Step 11
By purchasing a used phone, you are almost completely insured against counterfeiting, since counterfeit phones quickly fail before they get to the store shelf again. However, you should buy a used phone from a trusted seller so as not to run into a stolen phone. Buying a used original phone is often cheaper than a new fake one, and it will last longer.
