Cellphone marketplace these days have turn out to be saturated with fake phones and lots of ignorant customers have been scammed into buying fake phones for the fee of an authentic one.
Fake phones especially Android phones have emerged as so rampant that one wonders if phone sellers are intentionally taking advantage of their customers.
Some of these fake telephones inside the market are the so-called ‘UK or London Used Phones’ and pretty used telephones, there also are fake new phones but they don’t appear to be as many compared to the used telephones.
Before, it was especially top brands smartphone manufacturers like TECNO, Infinix, Samsung, Nokia, iPhone, HTC, Sony, LG, Motorola, Huawei and others that had many imitations however now even smaller manufacturers such as Gionee, Innjoo and Itel are also been faked.
Most of those fake telephones fit the authentic phones almost precisely in layout and considering most smartphone shoppers aren’t tech-savvy, they are very without difficulty deceived.
Many people do not know they bought a fake phone till after a while once they possibly meet someone with the authentic version of the telephone and find large differences between their phone and the original. Even small telephones popularly referred to as ‘Torchlight telephones’ have fake variations.
1) The easiest and best way to detect if a phone is fake is by checking out its digital camera. It takes quite lots of work to build a fine smartphone camera and it appears most fake cellphone manufacturers can’t reproduce authentic cameras.
Take images with the telephone’s cameras, both back, and front cameras however specifically the back camera and analyze them closely with images captured with the same phone original camera.
The exceptional procedure to carry out this is to look online for pictures taken by the original phone, a simple Google search may be your saviour from shopping for a fake phone. Take videos also with the digital camera and compare the video pleasant with the original smartphone’s videos.
2) Another approach to detecting if a telephone is fake, although it isn’t foolproof is to check the phone name written on the phone very well, I found out that most fake phones have some misspellings, they might be hard to locate but with persistence and thorough utilization, you may locate them.
3) You must additionally take a lookout for the phone specs and features online and compare them to the phone you want to buy, if even one thing is lacking, it maximum likely manner the phone is fake, please notice that a smartphone may have several different models with little different specifications so you should be sure of the precise version you are buying.
For instance,e Samsung A3 is probably available in two versions, one may be the usage of a Snapdragon Processor and have three GB RAM and the opposite model might be the use of an Exynos Processor with 4 GB RAM so ask the seller to be sure.
4) Go with a SIM card which has internet subscription on it so that you can take a look at the telephone’s internet connectivity and potential to download, open and run apps.
Some fake phones have issues connecting to the net especially with the Airtel network, so I recommend that you use the Airtel network to test all apps and attempt downloading a few apps from the Google Play Store.
5) You also can detect if a phone is fake by means of checking its IMEI number on IMEI checking websites. If the phone is original, a search of the IMEI online must return the Phone’s version and year of manufacture and even the full specifications.
I’m not sure if that is applicable to all phone manufacturers though, I am certain it is relevant to large brands consisting of iPhone, Samsung, Sony etc.
6) For phones which have unique functions which includes Smart Assistants like Siri, Bixby, Gestures including Air Gesture, Air View, etc. Make certain you take a look at each special characteristic the original smartphone should have and ensure the capabilities are working nicely before you purchase the cellphone. For new phones, also test and test all accessories and make certain that they are entire and running nicely.
Never be in a hurry to purchase a phone, usually make comparisons. With those tips, no one ought to fall sufferer of these evil fake phone producers and sellers.
