Last Updated on December 8, 2020
2. Spotting A Fake Android
Android phones suffer from more cloning, it seems, than the iPhone. This is due probably to the nature of the Android OS itself, which is open-source. For this reason, you need to be very careful before you attempt to buy a Huawei or a Samsung smartphone. In what follows, you will find a guide as to how you can identify a clone Android phone and Avoid it: A. Compare With Another Phone People keep looking for cheap phones for sale; however, they make a mistake sometimes of falling victim to deals that are too good to be true: clone phones that seem genuine and that are put for sale at a bargain price. Therefore, you always need to compare the phone you are about to buy with another Android phone that you are sure is an original phone. Pay close attention to dimensions and the nuances of design in your comparison. B. Verify Materials Used The next thing you need to do when trying to spot a fake Android phone is to check the materials used. The best Android devices are made with the best materials out there. This includes sapphire glass and carbon fiber carbon. Therefore, if an Android device seems too plasticky to the feel, then you might want to skip it altogether. C. Check IMEI A lot of phones have the Android 10 operating system. However, not all of those phones are genuine Android devices. Therefore, to make sure that those Android apps are running on a legit Android phone, you need to make sure that you run the IMEI number. It will tell you for certain whether the phone is real or merely a clone. d. Run a Benchmark Test Another thing that you can do when checking whether an Android device is a genuine one or not is to run a benchmark. The best phones on the market have great performance, which means that all the cheap phones for sale lag behind immensely, especially if the phone claims to be the genuine one when it is not. Therefore, to rest assured and to get the best out of those Android 10 features, make sure that you run a benchmark test to check the performance of your device against the published performance sheets. The apps that you can use for this task are the following: AnTuTu Benchmark or Geekbench.
