Good thing Hugh can solve the Rubik's cube and unlock technology that world has actually never even seen or heard of before. I think he got a good deal on an S40 Ultra, haters gunna say it's fake, but my boy Hugh is just smarter than they are.
These fake phones are always so funny, they try so hard on the box but then when you open it it's like a child drew what they thought the phone looked like 🤣
What a joke🤣 I have a real Samsung S22 Ultra straight from Samsung..Thanks for an amusing video..Guess you aren't getting your money back anytime soon.😉
@@anitad243 lmao the fake one looks and feels exactly like the real one. You got robbed if you really wanted an droid you could have had this since there real and fake are same lol
You can make a really cheap glass back if you don't need it to be durable. What i find more surprising in these fake phones is the usually milled aluminium fake camera frame. It's not the best milling i ever saw, i'd say it's even rather close to the opposite, but it still seems like a completely needless expense.
AliExpress wouldn't allow me to open a case against the seller as it had been more than 15 days. So opened a PayPal case and got all my money back excluding return shipping which was about $20. The sellers page has since been removed
Thanks for letting us know that you got your money back. Too often I see videos from other channels that have purchased fake devices similar to this one and they never mention if they got their money back. Even if the channel makes their money back from RU-vid, it is still a win for the scammer who gets away with that money and us viewers are indirectly supporting those scammers by watching those videos.
Even the Touch ID in the Apple devices and in-display fingerprint in very expensive Android phones are still far behind this phone technology. It's a superior technology we'll see in 2050
It has to be advanced if you're using 1 uncalibrated sensor to calibrate a second uncalibrated sensor on a different part of the phone and also uses a different kind of technology to track variables.
The W in the camera options actually stands for 万 (wan) in Chinese and it means ten thousand. So basically, 4800W is 48MP, 1200W is 12MP and so on. But overclocking cameras to 6400Watts sure is fun!
Curiously, the pronunciation of "万/wàn" in Chinese mandarin is almost identical to "one" in English. And if you devide the pixel counts they are claiming by 10000, the result you get shouldn't be too far from the truth.
THANKS for the explanation, I've got some security cameras in the past that showed 100W on the box. I thought they're faking the IR light wattage, but sure enough, 1MP.
I feel sorry for the factory workers at a company like this. If they lie to and cheat the customers there's a good chance the workers aren't treated too well either.
@@SemiDoge The 1993 Company Law required all companies based in China, both foreign and domestic, to allow the establishment of units to "carry out the activities of the party," and to provide "necessary conditions" for these units to function.
It's funny yet terrifying to think that there's a group of people trying to scam others with this much effort put into.. imagine someone with no technology knowledge bought this and thought it was real..
When I was in high school my dad was so proud that he bought me a "great" phone for just 40$ (it's not that we couldn't afford low range phones from reputable brands , he was just oblivious) from ali express ,what a piece of shit that phone was ,slow as hell , I caught it a couple of times sending sms by itself to chinese numbers , after 2 or 3 months of use , I woke up pulled it out of my pocket and noticed a huge bulge on the back from the battery expanding , I instantly stopped it and never touched it again , guess I was lucky it didn't explode in my pocket.
@@martin518441 It probably wasn't going to explode. At the time when the battery expands like that, its capacity is pretty much zero, it won't take up any energy and it won't release much any. It's simply gone.
@@SianaGearz it's not about the capacity of there was a rupture in the casing the oxygen reacts with something in there to start a violent exothermic reaction
The funny thing is that I literally just got a new phone (at the time of commenting) and at the same time a relative gave me a Rubik's cube. So I guess you could say that my phone actually has Rubik's cube technology... lol.
@@hihellothere9569 eBay and refurbishers (through Amazon renewed and BackMarket) offer extended warranties if you've got the change to spare. As for looks, I predict all slabs will look dated in a couple years when foldables become the norm. I'm sending this from an LG Velvet I got a year ago for $180. I think it does the part at blending in
Thank you for fighting for a refund. Losing money is exactly what these scammers deserve and the only thing that might stop them (if they lose so much money to refunds that their business doesn't work anymore).
Its not too far from the truth if you understand how camera chips work. In effect you have an array of light sensors on the chip. Each is technically a camera How many on this ? . Who knows .
Oh god, one of my customers bought one of these. It always would say it had 512gb in on device and SD storage, even without an SD card, but would also pop up "phone full" warnings every few seconds.
Certain APKs fail to install because the system architecture (armv7, v8 etc.) is different to the one the package is compiled for. In this case, the phone has an armv7 chipset and the APK was most likely compiled for armv8 or newer. edit: this is related to the tiktok install fail
Yeah, most of the fake phone are using the Mediatek MT6580 that is already very old. They are forced to load the newer operating system installed inside the very old hardware
Another reason for the TikTok APK failing to install was the Android system picking up on them being packaged by different vendors (i.e. if the app was signed with a key generated by someone who modified the app, you cant install the real app without uninstalling the fake first)
@@braders5192 Its still not justified. You make like 10x more waste when you buy the power adapter separately and they are also changing the charging speed every year or 2, so upgrading from an S9 or S10 to an S22, you will probably have to buy a higher wattage adapter to take advantage of the faster charging. Its the same as the headphone jack. They arent doing it for you, they are doing it to save money. Its greedy as hell. I just want my damn headphone jack back.
Chinese Seller 1: "Hugh Jefferies? That names sounds familiar." Chinese Seller 2: "Didn't we sell him some parts 7 months ago? Should've been there by now....."
I wish there would be more people like you mate.., I like your way of thinking at the end “No Scammer Deserves My Money” We should all think like that always! Thanks for that informative video. Kudos!
Fake phone manufacturer: We use the Rubik’s cube technology. 69TB Of storage. 64 million cameras. A fingerprint sensor that dosen’t exist. And a good display. Only 60$
From 1gb of memory to 32gb real quick, it's like downloading more ram. I really hope that the seller just lets you keep it and then maybe salvage some of it's parts....
5:05 - The APK failing to install means that the currently installed app is signed with a different certificate & key, meaning that it is likely tampered with. You can verify this by trying to install w/ ADB and looking at the error code it gives.
The fake phone makers might just be doing it for the memes now. They know that most people will not buy a phone with that many typos in the description, but they do know that curious youtubers will buy the phones.
5:22 the actual Chrome app requests the same permissions, though it doesn't crash when you deny them. And it makes sense, since there's APIs that allow websites to use that kind of functionality. Video calls come to mind.
@@francescoceladini Not exactly, there's two different types of permissions with Chrome. You are thinking of per-site permissions which Chrome itself handles but the app itself still needs the OS-level permissions granted cause otherwise, it wouldn't have the data to pass to a site even if the site-level ones were enabled. Because Google requires Chrome to be installed on every Android device, it automatically gets all OS permissions enabled by default, the exact same ones Browser in this video prompted for. This browser asking on launch is simply because they screwed up the trusted apps basically that get auto-granted all permissions when pre-installed PLUS the fact it's the ancient AOSP (Android Open Source Project) browser that hasn't been updated in like a decade so it never got updated to support Android 6 Marshmallow's new permission system. So it's not sketchy at all that the browser in the video is asking for them at launch as that's just how older pre-6 apps work.
@@BrandonGiesing and ironically enough that same ancient browser is also built in on low end tablets and phones in Australia (usually less then a hundred dollars and sold in supermarkets
That's a very poorly coded browser app on this fake phone since it asks for all permissions at startup. The contacts permission is quite odd though, I don't think I remember the last time I used an Android browser that interfaced with my contacts.
@@R_Forde but i bet they're charging their cars a premium to compensate for it. It would be a big gamble for phone manufacturers since they're spending more money putting high specs on phones that they will have to sell very cheaply to justify the spec-locking "feature" instead of just selling a cheap low spec phone... I doubt people will buy a phone that will downgrades their spec unless they pay up instead of buying a normal phone.
Thank you man, you did a great job and submitted a detailed report on the useless commercial devices. Thank you for your effort to buy the phone, give a detailed report, open it and detect commercial fraud.....etc.
Whoo, what a powerhouse! Cortex A7 cores! Four of them! An entire gig of RAM! Eight times that in storage! Who needs any more?? Real question: are those frickin…three other cameras just painted on under the clear plastic lenses?
Yup, a lot of those knock-off products tend to have multiple decorative, dummy cameras. Sometimes not to conceive customers, but to conceive relatives of said customers. You know, for "social status" and what not.
The fake ones are just plastic molds. They even created a rectangle paint on the cover for the periscope lens but still has a circular one underneath that looks wrong lol
Interesting to see that the app that fakes the spec is actually installed on the phone. When I played with one of these clown phones I downloaded a system spec app that reported the correct specs.
I am really afraid about the privacy this phone delivers. With everything masked and modified (like storage capacity, ram etc) I don't know what this phone will draw out of our data's to phishing and scam centers to make some bucks. Should be regulated a lot.
@@edster8416 Well then what are those who confused this phone with a real phone and dont have a laptop supposed to do then? Magically summon a laptop or another phone?
Years ago, my exes daughter wanted me to give her $100 to buy her friends old smart phone. (2009-ish) I asked to see the phone. It was supposed to be an iphone but had no markings to prove that and it was 30% thicker than any I've seen. It had a 'touch' screen but after a little messing around I figured out it wasn't a touch screen. All the 'apps' were laid out similarly, to take advantage of pressure switches under the fake screen. It was like a kids toy from the 90's. I said no, she got pissed, another of their friend ended up with it and none of them are friends anymore because the fake phone ruined their friendship. And I got to keep my $100
Many phones like this will bake the fake specs into the kernel. I found this out when I managed to compile TWRP for an older S Series clone and port various ROMs for it. The ROMs I ported came from various devs and I trusted them to not tinker with fake specs. Of course, as part of any port, you have to use your existing kernel if you don't want to compile a new one, and thus even with a completely different ROM, the phone still showed fake RAM and storage. There is also a build file which as an XML file that you can edit if rooted to change what shows in System Settings. Although it has been a while since I played with this sort of stuff. Some things may have changed. Despite how expensive they are they all have essentially the same chip, there is not a premium version of the fake with possibility of some select brand's fake iPhones, as they can have prices ranging in the 400-600 range. Most of the fakes also have very poor cellular frequency support, so chances are you will be stuck with a phone that can only use China's mobile services.
0:55 - I think we're about a good 50 years away from 32 million cameras on a single phone. I would genuinely be interested to know how this could be pulled off.
I mean we literally have millions of tiny transistors in our CPUs. Why not millions of tiny cameras? And Insect eyes actually kinda works like that too.
In a 'Real' phone, the browser does asks for permission to camera, because there's some sites using it for video chat fe. Contacts however, that's solid data stealing.
Normal browsers only ask for permission when needed. For example it only asks for the camera permission when you first choose to upload a picture. Contacts permission can be legit too. The permission to add accounts or use existing accounts (those "accounts" that shows up in system settings, like Google accounts) falls under the "contacts" category. If you decline that for Chrome you won't be able to use Chrome sync.
@@jacquelineliu2641 Oh sry, i didnt knew Chrome already utilized contacts. And yea, good point most browsers asks permission only when first needed, but still i can accept if a smaller browser asks in first lauch too, to not be an unconvinience later-on. But that's just me, its skecthy still to do.
@@jacquelineliu2641 Yup, they ask when needed. I have a couple apps where I disabled some permissions, because I don't see why it would need them, but if they do need the permissions at some point, they obviously ask for them again.
1:15 you can always spot these fake reviews, they use the same photos for different reviews, or the same hands, sometimes even the same serial number on the pictures
A customer who came to my at&t store brought that phone on alley express for 180$ it was some old lady telling me that she got a good deal on it🤣 it didnt work with our network and she was like wtf lol like yea ofc it doesnt work the imei is sketchy🤣
I lost it when it said 32 million cameras… I think it’s supposed to say 32 megapixels…. And that Rubik’s cube technology will have pro cubers going nuts.
Well now I know how these companies modify their specifications to show specs that are not true. I would personally change the specs to the correct ones that the phone actually has. I'd also ask for a refund, as well.
In some way it's very ironic that the cameras in phones keep going for more and more resolution, when that is only part of what makes a good camera. Good lenses and software are also part of it. Just adding more MP is like back in the day when Intel was big on selling their chips on GHz, while the competition managed to make faster chips with less clock.
Omg 32 Million Camera? I can finally show my friend a photo of Santa taking a shit after eating taco bell behind the neptune with my 32 million camera.
who cares about the type of the charging port the most important thing is that it charges the phone and transfers files I have a micro-usb one too and there's no complaints
@@JamezP my gripe with micro USB is the fact that it isn't reversible. So say if I want to plug my phone when I'm not sober (i.e. when I'm just waking up), I have to try a few times to plug it in, whereas with USB-C, I can just plug it in whatever way around, no problem. Edit: if you don't get it, it's all about convenience. Yeah it functions fine, but it's inconvenient
Had a s22 sent to me with an after market screen fitted exactly the same shape as this. Customer hated it and wanted it change for a genuine display, it looked so bad compared to the OLED panel Samsung use 🙈
