Apple products have long been seen as being more than they are.
This isn't just a phone, and this isn't just a laptop.
They're status symbols. And wherever there's a status symbol, there's a knockoff.
I'm sure you've seen them online, much cheaper than an iPhone, thinking maybe it's just
as good. Well, that would require buying one.
And so we did. Clearly, there's something to this.
It's frankly iconic. But at some point, you're going to have to use this thing.
And that's real pay. Whoa, here it is.
So this box looks an awful lot like the iPhone box.
Okay, on the back, we have a high digital camera, face recognition.
This is definitely not packaged as nicely as an Apple device.
Apple famously doesn't use any plastic in their packaging, whereas this uses a lot.
Whoa, a headphone jack?
Apple would never include that. Whoa, a screen protector?
That's amazing. Apple would never include that.
Whoa, USB-C? Apple only just included that.
And then we have a three-camera bump just like the iPhone. Wow, it is uncanny.
How terrible this looks. Whoa, it runs Android.
Keep the moving pieces is open the camera, switch to video mode.
We make moving pieces here. That's what Mac Address is most known for.
This is the slowest phone I've ever used.
While this is loading, you might notice that there is a notch dynamic island.
It's literally just a blank, blank thing printed onto the glass.
Why would you do that? Speakers horrible.
That's it. Let's open up the camera. Now there's three lenses on here.
Unfortunately, system UI has stopped.
This is infuriating. Let's try foreshutting this off.
This reminds me of how slow that iMac we bought, that refurbished iMac, with a spinning internal
drive. So we were trying to figure out the camera.
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.
This is very strange. The selfie camera looks kind of good.
There's no zoom. There's no, this, I, the cameras are fake.
Let's go to the Apple website. Oh, there we go.
You know, when it devices this slow, you kind of start second guessing yourself.
Did I really click on the internet browser? Oh, it's loading.
The browser isn't responding. Do you want to close it?
Okay. I wanted to look at this website.
This phone is terrible. I've never used it. But you have to use it.
No. No? I did have to use the thing.
And boy, do we find secrets lurking underneath, unlike a real iPhone, correct?
From the product page, it looks like they've upgraded the iPhone since we've bought it.
But even our old model advertised specs that meet or exceed what you'll find on the
real iPhone 14 Pro. One terabyte of internal storage, dual SIM card support, a 6.7 inch 1440p AMOLED display,
16 gigabytes of RAM, and a very strong 6,800 milliamp hours battery.
These aren't specs to scoff at. And on paper make it seem like it's worth far more than the $300 asking price.
And yet, the longer you use this phone, the more you hate it.
I put a SIM card in here, intending to use it as an actual phone for a bit.
That plan was quickly dashed, though, when it kept telling me there was no SIM card
inserted. Did I put them in backwards?
Or would detect the SIM card and then tell me I have no service.
No service, no service. And it frequently switches between these states without any rhyme or reason.
This is something that persisted across both slots, making it entirely useless as an actual
phone. But hey, it's still got Wi-Fi, which would be great if that worked reliably.
Like the SIM card, I could get this to connect to Wi-Fi.
It took about a dozen attempts across several networks, but it did eventually work.
However, even if the shockingly unresponsive home screen decided to cooperate and launch
an app, it would often show a connection error or load indefinitely, assuming the phone hadn't
disconnected from the Wi-Fi of its own volition by this point.
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
rarely loads. And even when it does, it becomes so unresponsive, it's basically useless.
And good luck force closing an app to try and get things moving again, since the navigation
bar at the bottom often disappears without reason. Even if you can get to the app manager, it too will often freeze.
The web browser works surprisingly well compared to everything else on here, though it's far
from an ideal experience, with janky scrolling and web pages awkwardly scaling.
The other thing I noticed on here is that the browser, the notification shade, even the
settings page look kind of old. In fact, I swear this looks like Android 7, which is peculiar because this device claims
that it's running Android 12. Since I clearly can't trust any of the claimed specs, I set out to test them.
So for example, I wanted to test the one terabyte storage by copying a bunch of videos onto
the drive. This is going to take forever.
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.
No matter what cable and power source we used, it wouldn't charge or show up as a connected
device. The only way we could even charge it was through a USB current tester.
We also couldn't download any music or videos since we can't download any apps.
We even resorted to Bluetooth file transfer, which also failed and would have taken forever.
And did you catch when I said it doesn't charge? It doesn't charge using this charge port.
But don't worry because the iPhone 14 Pro does come with wireless charging through MagSafe.
I guess that means if I want to test the battery capacity, I'm going to have to do it by tearing
it down. Let's see what mysteries we can uncover.
Are you able to tell me what is exactly in here?
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
listening to all the lies that it's telling us on there.
There's a lot. This is Android 6. Here we go.
Hardware. SP7731GEA. That is a spread trim CPU.
So spread trim is a Chinese SOC manufacturer.
So it's a quad core 1.2 gigahertz spread trim SOC.
Yeah. How many cores do you say this was supposed to have? I think it was just like eight core.
Ooh. LCD density is not looking good.
240. That seems accurate actually. Well, the display is only 480 by 1014.
What? Yep. It said it was more than that.
I'm sure it did. That's not 1080p. It's not.
Hey Brandon. What's up? Does this have an AMOLED screen?
Um, no. You could see the blacks from the screen versus the phone.
Not nearly as dark. So I would like to. Uh, sure.
Okay. How much RAM?
1 Gigabyte. What? Of RAM.
It has 1 gig of RAM but it said it had 8 and the phone, if you look, it says it has 16.
You can see down at the bottom, the VM allocation total is saying 16.
But it actually only has one.
So what's going on with the other 15? It doesn't exist.
This phone has been so slow. It's because it's trying to fill up memory it doesn't have.
So what about the storage? It's 16 gigabytes total.
So essentially it has the amount of storage that it claims it has in RAM.
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
like an over 6000mAh battery. How can we do that?
We take it apart. Let's get it all nice and toasty.
There is not much in this phone. It doesn't even fill the space.
They've got a very large gap around the battery. Maybe that's just in case it swells up.
Despite our best efforts, we were completely unable to unearth the truth about the battery's
capacity. Even when inputting the battery model number in Google, we got zero results.
So we actually don't know how bad the battery is. No. Safe to say, this thing disappointed in pretty much every way imaginable.
But the most shocking part is how much this costs. It's what?
$300.
At that price, it costs far more than many budget Android phones from the likes of Samsung
and Nokia. And frankly, while it may look like an iPhone at a distance, I mean, you could get a used
real iPhone from a few years ago for similar money and that'd be way better.
This thing is in every single way a scam.
It is the worst knockoff product I've ever seen used or could even imagine.
And literally burning $300 would be more useful than buying this.
Probably better for the environment too. Thanks for faking this Mac Address.
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I'm curious in the comments below what knockoff products that look like Apple devices you've
bought and how that experience was. This is as bad as this.
This is even worse than I could have ever imagined.