How Do You Know a Fraud Samsung Verses a Real Samsung

Fake Milky way S21 Ultra vs Real Galaxy S21 Ultra

Samsung's Galaxy S21 Ultra is arguably the best smartphone in the world right now — in fact, we take it topping our Best Android and Best smartphone camera lists. But due to its relatively high iv-digit price tag, the telephone is out of achieve for many consumers. That has opened up the door for dishonest manufacturers to brand fakes.

Seeing every bit how information technology's a slow calendar month for telephone releases and all, XDA Television decided to pick ane of these clones upwardly to encounter how close (or non close) they compare to the real thing.

We came beyond this S21 Ultra ripoff earlier in the week while browsing through Facebook Marketplace and saw a "Galaxy S21 Ultra" listed for 800 Hong Kong dollars — equivalent to about $102 US.

The Fake S21 Ultra (left) and the real S21 Ultra.

Even considering the low cost, the telephone is an absolute scam. While the dorsum of the telephone looks prissy — the plastic is coated to give off a convincing brushed metallic experience — and shut enough to the real thing to potentially fool the average consumer. flipping the phone over makes it obvious that this is a budget phone and not Samsung'south premium flagship.

The fake S21 Ultra (left) has a flat LCD panel while the real S21 Ultra has a curved OLED panel.

For one there's a waterdrop notch and a sizable mentum bezel, and the screen is conspicuously not an OLED panel. Booting up the phone brings more deception — whoever made this went through the hassle of aping Samsung's kick-up animation, and once started upwardly, the phone uses one of Samsung's default wallpapers and has app icons that are similar to Ane UI. Even the on-screen navigation buttons resemble Samsung's, down to the weird (wrong) placement of the back button on the right side of the home button.

The clone even went alee and created a false Bixby Home screen that sits on the left of the home screen. But the folio is conspicuously imitation and tapping on it does nothing.

While the fake S21 Ultra can brand telephone calls, has functional WiFi and Bluetooth, and a working unmarried bottom-firing speaker, everything else about it is faked. The phone's settings page claims to have 6GB of RAM with 256GB of internal storage, for example, simply that'south a blatant prevarication because the phone is ridiculously tedious. Booting upwards YouTube took xl seconds and at that place'due south keyboard input lag when you type.

We downloaded tertiary-party apps to bank check the real components used and it shows the clone phone has only 1GB of LPDDR2 RAM and 2GB of internal storage. The latter meant only one to two apps can be installed out of the box, whatsoever more and the phone will be out of storage.

At least the clone phone does non claim to be powered past the Snapdragon 888 anywhere in the packaging or in settings, because the SoC here is a MediaTek MT6782, a 28nm SoC produced in 2013. Information technology doesn't fifty-fifty support 4G networks.

Even that good-looking back compromises of a agglomeration of lies. The photographic camera module looks relatively shut to the real S21 Ultra's camera module, simply it only houses i 3MP camera, the residual of the "lenses" are false. In fact, await closely at the supposedly ultra-wide camera and you lot tin meet the lens is just a piece of cardboard that has shifted inside and looks kleptomaniacal.

The upper left camera module has a "lens" that's made of cardboard and is about to fall out of identify.

The 3MP camera sucks, of course. Below are some samples captured past the false S21 Ultra and the existent S21 Ultra.

With just 1GB of RAM and 2GB of storage and only 3G connectivity, this telephone is unusable for virtually people. The way we meet it, this ripoff faux Galaxy S21 Ultra has ii intended audiences: people who bought this knowing it'due south fake (maybe they were simply curious like us or wanted a laugh); or people who unfortunately can't tell it's a fake and thought they're getting a steal of a deal. We really hope most people are in the erstwhile army camp because anyone who paid for this thinking it'southward a real Samsung device will have been majorly scammed.

About author

Ben Sin

I'thousand a senior editor at XDA Developers. I have been a journalist for a decade, the final five years roofing the mobile tech scene closely, reviewing just about every phone and attention merchandise shows and launches. I too run a gadget review aqueduct on YouTube.

parkerbrerefrommen93.blogspot.com

Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/fake-galaxy-s21-ultra-vs-real-galaxy-s21-ultra/

Share this post