Original Android Phone: How to check if you have a fake phone

In this guide, I’ll be showing you how to uncover if your Android Phone is original or fake, you will agree with me that the mobile phone market is very large and still booming.

There are lots of copy mobile phones and fake ones, they appear so real most of the time that it is uneasy to detect or differentiate a copy from the real thing.

So you don’t fall a victim of buying a fake android phone we have put together this guide to help you find out in a few clicks if your mobile device is Fake or Original.

This trick works for all Android phones, irrespective of the brand, be it Tecno, Infinix, Samsung, iTel, Xiaomi, Huawei, you can always check you bought the real thing.

Check Quality of the Build Material

The first method to find out that you have an original mobile phone is to check the material build of the phone. You want to find out what stuff the phone is made with.

If your phone is made with very inferior materials then it may mean that the mobile is fake, another clear-cut method to find out if the mobile is fake is to compare with another mobile phone of the same brand.

You cannot use a physical comparison to judge if your mobile phone is fake or not, this is because many of the companies that make this copied mobile phones transmit as possible to make it to Luke exactly like the original ones.

You may want to also go to the website of the original maker to find out some build properties of the device, such as the body material ice cream material are there any plastic materials and other related information.

Check the software of the device

one of the most reliable ways to find out if an Android mobile phone is fake or original is to check the software that is powering the device.

Usually, the main specification of your new Android model and brand is usually made available on the package box of the mobile phone, so what you need to do is to proceed to the settings area to check the details of the phone’s software.

To do this open up settings, navigate to the system and find the about phone menu.

If what you found out on the subscription does not match with what was inscribed on the package bus then there is a high possibility that you have an Android device made of another copy technology from China.

The major reason why phones like this flood the market is because they are super cheap and eye-catching, victims of such fake Android phones don’t take their time to check the device authenticity so they end up buying the fake thing in place of the original model.

Antutu Benchmark

You can also use third-party software or mobile application like and total benchmark which is available on the Google play store to check the specification of your mobile phone. all you need to do is to proceed to Google play store and download the application.

I want to leave a link here to do the application so you can easily navigate and have it installed on your mobile.

I want you to check up on the full specification of your device the name of the device the manufacturer of the device the speed of the device if the name and branding for the device are different from what is physically available on the mobile it may mean that you have a clone Android phone.

How to Detect Fake iPhone

iPhone users can as well use the Antutu app to check the software spec of their mobile phone, If you have a fake iPhone it will find it difficult to run the app being a Java developed app.

iPhone clones are hardly capable of running Java, the copied technology that is used to power fake iPhone devices is usually Android, then they give it iPhone furnishing on the outside to make it look like the real thing.

Another reason why fake iPhone manufacturers cannot integrate the iOS operating system on the fake device and ended up opting for an alternative OS like Android is that iOS is only exclusive to Apple Incorporation as against Android which is open-source.

Verifying the IMEI and Serial Number

The final method you can use to find out if you have an original android phone or fake iPhone is checking through IMEI details.

Every mobile phone has its own IMEI number that is peculiar to the device,  You can easily check up the IMEI of your mobile phone by opening the dialer application on your mobile or the call app, then dial *#06# and immediately a popup will be displayed on the screen of your mobile phone showing your IMEI number.

Now that you have gotten your IMEI number, what you need to do is to copy out the number and open the browser on your mobile, visit  www.imei.info. Then key in those IMEI digits into space as seen on the website, next solve the captcha, and click on submit.

The web will display your phone’s information including the full specification and all technology used to power the mobile.

These are the ways you can use to detect if you have an original Android Phone or fake iPhone.

We hope you find it useful!