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 we’re 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 Samsung’s 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 it’s okay to get a fake, even if its hardware is decent (its software almost certainly isn’t).

Core count stats for fake phones • Display resolutions of fake phones

The lesson here is – if the price sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Source (in Chinese)