AnTuTu: Samsung is most copied brand by fake phone makers
There are fake devices out there data by AnTuTu shows that 2.64% of results in its database were posted by a copycat device. Note that were not talking about one phone copying a design feature from another phone, this is about replica devices sold as the real thing.
Samsung is the most popular brand to clone 36.23% of fake phones were pretending to be a Galaxy. Just the Galaxy S7 edge clones account for 8% of the fakes. The smaller S7 is high on the list too and surprisingly! - so are Samsungs flip phones.
Fake Apple phones hold 7.72% of the bogus market, lead by iPhone 7 Plus lookalikes they are in the Top 5 with 2.67%. Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus and Huawei are all affected as well. The Other category is huge too, over 40%.
As AnTuTu reports, these fakes are pretty low quality. Nearly 60% of them have quad-core processors to save on cost, only 30% got octa-core CPUs. The illegitimate makers cheap out on screens too, most devices get a 720p or 1080p panel. Not that its okay to get a fake, even if its hardware is decent (its software almost certainly isnt).
The lesson here is if the price sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Source (in Chinese)
Reader comments
Yeah... fact that they are banned in lots of countries inclusing USA says it all...
- 24 Jan 2018
- 3qF
- Anonymous
Yea, because the Mate 10 Pro is so low end.. Learn something about phones before commenting.
- 24 Jan 2018
- Nx3
LOL who copies Xiaomi, Oppo and Huawei? Those are low quality chinese phones anyway, can't imagine how are their copies like. Either really crappy even for a copy or the same as original.
- 24 Jan 2018
- 3q5