Smartphone tricks to know if one is real or fake.
SMARTPHONE TRICKS – Here are some clever ways and practical tricks in order to determine if a smartphone is fake or real.
We all want smartphones as it could give us anything coming from communicating, giving time, telling date, sending messages, capturing moments, and connecting to people. Phones can also entertain us through games installed and social media applications. However, everyone also wants to have one in a low price and yet sometimes we get the wrong ones or the knock off model.
With this, here are some clever tricks and tips in order to identify if the phone you’d like to purchase is a fake or not.
Here are some tricks:
- Identify and examine details such as the camera’s location, the screen, what it feels holding it, screen brightness, how light or how heavy, and the feels of logo if you touch it.
- Extra things on the exteriors such as an antenna or the screen far from each of the edge of the phone screams a counterfeit model.
- Blur shot of images.
- A knock off phone is heavy because of the materials used to build it.
- In original phone, the logo is soft when touched unlike the fake ones where the logo is raised.
- The fake model of a certain brand has a variety of color which is not originally mentioned by the manufacturer.
- The language of the phone. Sometimes, the counterfeit comes in bad grammar and inappropriate capitalization of letters. Take note that real brands are created by people fluent in English.
- Check the IMEI.
- When it comes to buying a new iPhone, look at the app store and see what it shows. A clear sign of it being fake is that when you open the app, it leads you to Google Play instead of its original IOS as software.
- Through the battery, the brand should be correctly spelled and printed on it. Also, an original will contain all the information needed and the language is based on your current location. If you are in US, the language should be in English and not in Chinese.
- Give the camera a test before buying it because real phones has great cameras.
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Source: Bright Side