WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.760 Apple products have long been seen as being more than they are. 00:00:09.760 --> 00:00:14.640 This isn't just a phone, and this isn't just a laptop. 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:21.040 They're status symbols. And wherever there's a status symbol, there's a knockoff. 00:00:21.040 --> 00:00:25.000 I'm sure you've seen them online, much cheaper than an iPhone, thinking maybe it's just 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:28.880 as good. Well, that would require buying one. 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:32.560 And so we did. Clearly, there's something to this. 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:38.760 It's frankly iconic. But at some point, you're going to have to use this thing. 00:00:38.760 --> 00:00:46.320 And that's real pay. Whoa, here it is. 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:50.480 So this box looks an awful lot like the iPhone box. 00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:58.280 Okay, on the back, we have a high digital camera, face recognition. 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:01.840 This is definitely not packaged as nicely as an Apple device. 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:09.000 Apple famously doesn't use any plastic in their packaging, whereas this uses a lot. 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.120 Whoa, a headphone jack? 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:15.600 Apple would never include that. Whoa, a screen protector? 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:18.680 That's amazing. Apple would never include that. 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:22.560 Whoa, USB-C? Apple only just included that. 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:29.280 And then we have a three-camera bump just like the iPhone. Wow, it is uncanny. 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.400 How terrible this looks. Whoa, it runs Android. 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:36.320 Keep the moving pieces is open the camera, switch to video mode. 00:01:36.320 --> 00:01:40.480 We make moving pieces here. That's what Mac Address is most known for. 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:44.200 This is the slowest phone I've ever used. 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:49.880 While this is loading, you might notice that there is a notch dynamic island. 00:01:49.880 --> 00:01:54.520 It's literally just a blank, blank thing printed onto the glass. 00:01:54.520 --> 00:02:00.760 Why would you do that? Speakers horrible. 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:05.440 That's it. Let's open up the camera. Now there's three lenses on here. 00:02:05.440 --> 00:02:12.000 Unfortunately, system UI has stopped. 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:16.840 This is infuriating. Let's try foreshutting this off. 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:22.600 This reminds me of how slow that iMac we bought, that refurbished iMac, with a spinning internal 00:02:22.600 --> 00:02:28.040 drive. So we were trying to figure out the camera. 00:02:28.040 --> 00:02:33.480 That's what we were trying to do. Man, it takes so long to load things in this, you literally forget what you're doing. 00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:39.360 This is very strange. The selfie camera looks kind of good. 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:48.480 There's no zoom. There's no, this, I, the cameras are fake. 00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:53.080 Let's go to the Apple website. Oh, there we go. 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:56.880 You know, when it devices this slow, you kind of start second guessing yourself. 00:02:56.880 --> 00:03:08.360 Did I really click on the internet browser? Oh, it's loading. 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:10.880 The browser isn't responding. Do you want to close it? 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:15.240 Okay. I wanted to look at this website. 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:19.640 This phone is terrible. I've never used it. But you have to use it. 00:03:19.640 --> 00:03:22.640 No. No? I did have to use the thing. 00:03:22.640 --> 00:03:28.000 And boy, do we find secrets lurking underneath, unlike a real iPhone, correct? 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.640 From the product page, it looks like they've upgraded the iPhone since we've bought it. 00:03:31.640 --> 00:03:36.160 But even our old model advertised specs that meet or exceed what you'll find on the 00:03:36.160 --> 00:03:44.840 real iPhone 14 Pro. One terabyte of internal storage, dual SIM card support, a 6.7 inch 1440p AMOLED display, 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:51.560 16 gigabytes of RAM, and a very strong 6,800 milliamp hours battery. 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:58.840 These aren't specs to scoff at. And on paper make it seem like it's worth far more than the $300 asking price. 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:02.640 And yet, the longer you use this phone, the more you hate it. 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:07.080 I put a SIM card in here, intending to use it as an actual phone for a bit. 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:10.600 That plan was quickly dashed, though, when it kept telling me there was no SIM card 00:04:10.600 --> 00:04:13.840 inserted. Did I put them in backwards? 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:17.800 Or would detect the SIM card and then tell me I have no service. 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:24.280 No service, no service. And it frequently switches between these states without any rhyme or reason. 00:04:24.280 --> 00:04:28.360 This is something that persisted across both slots, making it entirely useless as an actual 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:35.440 phone. But hey, it's still got Wi-Fi, which would be great if that worked reliably. 00:04:35.440 --> 00:04:38.920 Like the SIM card, I could get this to connect to Wi-Fi. 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:43.920 It took about a dozen attempts across several networks, but it did eventually work. 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:48.720 However, even if the shockingly unresponsive home screen decided to cooperate and launch 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:53.920 an app, it would often show a connection error or load indefinitely, assuming the phone hadn't 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:58.960 disconnected from the Wi-Fi of its own volition by this point. 00:04:58.960 --> 00:05:05.560 Using this thing is a test of patience. For example, I have not been able to download any apps onto the phone because the Play Store 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:12.360 rarely loads. And even when it does, it becomes so unresponsive, it's basically useless. 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:16.280 And good luck force closing an app to try and get things moving again, since the navigation 00:05:16.280 --> 00:05:22.960 bar at the bottom often disappears without reason. Even if you can get to the app manager, it too will often freeze. 00:05:22.960 --> 00:05:27.760 The web browser works surprisingly well compared to everything else on here, though it's far 00:05:27.760 --> 00:05:34.240 from an ideal experience, with janky scrolling and web pages awkwardly scaling. 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:39.040 The other thing I noticed on here is that the browser, the notification shade, even the 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:48.640 settings page look kind of old. In fact, I swear this looks like Android 7, which is peculiar because this device claims 00:05:48.640 --> 00:05:54.760 that it's running Android 12. Since I clearly can't trust any of the claimed specs, I set out to test them. 00:05:54.760 --> 00:05:59.680 So for example, I wanted to test the one terabyte storage by copying a bunch of videos onto 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.480 the drive. This is going to take forever. 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:11.080 I can't believe this cable is working. It's a big surprise because we've all month haven't been able to get any cables to work. 00:06:11.080 --> 00:06:16.200 No matter what cable and power source we used, it wouldn't charge or show up as a connected 00:06:16.200 --> 00:06:28.800 device. The only way we could even charge it was through a USB current tester. 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:34.040 We also couldn't download any music or videos since we can't download any apps. 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:40.080 We even resorted to Bluetooth file transfer, which also failed and would have taken forever. 00:06:40.080 --> 00:06:44.720 And did you catch when I said it doesn't charge? It doesn't charge using this charge port. 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:51.840 But don't worry because the iPhone 14 Pro does come with wireless charging through MagSafe. 00:06:51.840 --> 00:06:56.600 I guess that means if I want to test the battery capacity, I'm going to have to do it by tearing 00:06:56.600 --> 00:06:59.720 it down. Let's see what mysteries we can uncover. 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:02.920 Are you able to tell me what is exactly in here? 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:10.320 Of course I can. Let's do it. What we're going to get is an ADB device connection so that we can talk to the system without 00:07:10.320 --> 00:07:13.560 listening to all the lies that it's telling us on there. 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:17.160 There's a lot. This is Android 6. Here we go. 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:24.800 Hardware. SP7731GEA. That is a spread trim CPU. 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:29.560 So spread trim is a Chinese SOC manufacturer. 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:33.400 So it's a quad core 1.2 gigahertz spread trim SOC. 00:07:33.400 --> 00:07:38.080 Yeah. How many cores do you say this was supposed to have? I think it was just like eight core. 00:07:38.080 --> 00:07:41.440 Ooh. LCD density is not looking good. 00:07:41.440 --> 00:07:47.160 240. That seems accurate actually. Well, the display is only 480 by 1014. 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:51.240 What? Yep. It said it was more than that. 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:55.120 I'm sure it did. That's not 1080p. It's not. 00:07:55.120 --> 00:08:00.520 Hey Brandon. What's up? Does this have an AMOLED screen? 00:08:00.520 --> 00:08:05.760 Um, no. You could see the blacks from the screen versus the phone. 00:08:05.760 --> 00:08:08.760 Not nearly as dark. So I would like to. Uh, sure. 00:08:08.760 --> 00:08:12.960 Okay. How much RAM? 00:08:12.960 --> 00:08:15.960 1 Gigabyte. What? Of RAM. 00:08:15.960 --> 00:08:21.960 It has 1 gig of RAM but it said it had 8 and the phone, if you look, it says it has 16. 00:08:21.960 --> 00:08:27.120 You can see down at the bottom, the VM allocation total is saying 16. 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:30.920 But it actually only has one. 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:34.880 So what's going on with the other 15? It doesn't exist. 00:08:34.880 --> 00:08:39.840 This phone has been so slow. It's because it's trying to fill up memory it doesn't have. 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:44.520 So what about the storage? It's 16 gigabytes total. 00:08:44.520 --> 00:08:48.880 So essentially it has the amount of storage that it claims it has in RAM. 00:08:48.880 --> 00:08:56.160 Correct. It's full of lies. So I think the last thing we need to find out is the battery because it says it has 00:08:56.160 --> 00:09:00.560 like an over 6000mAh battery. How can we do that? 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:08.880 We take it apart. Let's get it all nice and toasty. 00:09:08.880 --> 00:09:12.680 There is not much in this phone. It doesn't even fill the space. 00:09:12.680 --> 00:09:17.240 They've got a very large gap around the battery. Maybe that's just in case it swells up. 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:21.480 Despite our best efforts, we were completely unable to unearth the truth about the battery's 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:27.760 capacity. Even when inputting the battery model number in Google, we got zero results. 00:09:27.760 --> 00:09:35.320 So we actually don't know how bad the battery is. No. Safe to say, this thing disappointed in pretty much every way imaginable. 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.240 But the most shocking part is how much this costs. It's what? 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:42.440 $300. 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:46.880 At that price, it costs far more than many budget Android phones from the likes of Samsung 00:09:46.880 --> 00:09:54.120 and Nokia. And frankly, while it may look like an iPhone at a distance, I mean, you could get a used 00:09:54.120 --> 00:10:04.040 real iPhone from a few years ago for similar money and that'd be way better. 00:10:04.040 --> 00:10:07.200 This thing is in every single way a scam. 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:12.400 It is the worst knockoff product I've ever seen used or could even imagine. 00:10:12.400 --> 00:10:17.280 And literally burning $300 would be more useful than buying this. 00:10:17.280 --> 00:10:21.520 Probably better for the environment too. Thanks for faking this Mac Address. 00:10:21.520 --> 00:10:25.120 If you've owned any knockoff products yourself, give this video a like. 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:28.520 And if you want to learn more about real products, then you might as well subscribe. 00:10:28.520 --> 00:10:35.080 I'm curious in the comments below what knockoff products that look like Apple devices you've 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:39.000 bought and how that experience was. This is as bad as this. 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.520 This is even worse than I could have ever imagined.