How to distinguish the real from the fake iPhone

The development of technology gives us not only a cool iPhone, but also a lot of copies, which are sometimes difficult to distinguish from the original. Not to be trapped, it is better to buy the iPhone only from authorized dealers. So it will be more expensive, but safer.

If you overpay still do not want to, you can try their luck and look for better prices from vendors gray. Only to start armed with recommendations that will not run into a fake.

There are two ways to distinguish the real from the Chinese copy of the iPhone: simple and complicated. Let's begin with a simple.

Method 1: A simple

If a person at least once in his hands a real iPhone, it will almost certainly be able to distinguish it from counterfeits.

Life hacking is to find such a man, or, at worst, to go to a regular store and the like should be considered iPhoneWho are going to buy. Materials, components appearance, software - everything is immediately evident, if you know where to look.

You do not know what to look for? No problem! Who will teach.

Method 2: more difficult

The man with the trained eye will be able to distinguish a fake, not only including the iPhone, but without opening the box. There are a few faithful take to help immediately identify the clone. Here they are.

Box

Apple has a very reverent attitude to the details, and it is expressed in everything that comes to iPhone, starting with the package. This box should be of thick coated board with straight edges and logo embossing method. At the bottom of the necessarily present a sticker with model name, serial number, IMEI, and storage capacity. But the main thing - it is, of course, the contents of the box.

Accessories and equipment

Included with each iPhone necessarily comes charging cable, earphone, the USB-adapter, as well as an envelope with the documentation, stickers, and a paper clip to eject the SIM card tray. All accessories should be carefully rolled up and packed in transparent film. Original cables, unlike the fakes, much softer and plastic on their connectors perfectly smooth and has no burrs or sag. Of course, everything has to be laid in their places in perfect order.

Appearance iPhone

Sam smartphone should create an impression of quality stuff: I feel the weight of the metal cools nice hand. All modern iPhone manufactured from aluminum, in the same housing material fakes can be any, up to a colored plastic.

In this iPhone parts fit tightly to each other and have minimum clearances. Buttons and toggle silent mode should clearly respond to the pressing and not have backlash. On the rear cover smartphone necessarily have IMEI, which coincides with the numbers on the box and tray SIM card.

Inscriptions Assembled in China, on the contrary, do not be afraid. It is perfectly legal, because the iPhone only develop in the United States, and produced and assembled in China.

Obvious fake guts will be given the details, which are now to be iPhone simply can not. These characteristics include:

• removable rear cover and the battery;
• support for two or more SIM cards;
• memory card slot;
• connector microUSB;
• telescopic antenna.

But even if fake good quality and it looks difficult to distinguish from the original, all doubts should vanish after switching on.

Software and the internal stuffing

Times are rough translation, and characters in the menu are long gone. Now the Chinese have learned to mimic the interface and accurately repeat fonts. What they do not yet know how, it's counterfeiting features: none of Siri, nor the "Find iPhone» in clone to work, of course, will not.

And at forgery can not be a valid serial number, which will be held on the Apple site verification. Therefore, guarantees the balance checking the serial number is the simplest method to determine the present before you the iPhone or fake.

To test the need to find the serial number in the system settings (see "Main» → «This device "), make sure that it is identical to the number on the SIM card tray and the box, and then enter it into the form checks this page. If the iPhone currently, the site will give information about the model, the rest of the guarantee and other information. Otherwise, the message "Sorry, this serial number is not correct," or something like that.

Another option identification - App Store (the screenshot to the left). As you can imagine, all the clones running Android, which has its own shop Google Play app (screenshot on the right). That he will open when you click the App Store icon on the fake iPhone.

If in doubt and you can not understand what the store in front of you, try searching Apple proprietary applications like Keynote or GarageBand: on Google Play and, of course, does not and can not.

Another guaranteed rapid method of determining the authenticity of the iPhone - it sync with iTunes.

Mediakombayn automatically detects the connected device, showing all the information about him, and, as you might guess, see through a fake at times. Just take a meeting with the seller of the laptop installed with iTunes and take care of connecting to the Internet.

And you've encountered with the iPhone clones and sellers, scammers? Be sure to tell us in the comments about your experience.