How to distinguish a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 from a fake?

When Samsung began to actively fight Apple in the field of smartphone building, Korean products began to attract massive attention of counterfeiters. The more popular the model, the more often they try to copy it and pass it off as the original: the flagships were doomed, including the Galaxy Note brand - an expensive and therefore attractive device. With the development of online commerce in Russia and the emergence of the possibility of purchasing electronics on foreign sites, the question of how to distinguish Samsung Galaxy Note 3 from a fake has become especially relevant. Released in 2013, it gave way to a fellow Note 4, which made it more affordable in Russia - the cost decreased. The flagships of the past years are attractive precisely for this: the performance is still at the level, but the price is much more interesting. True, fraudsters are also revived: buyers are not so critical of the price tag, writing off the reduction in price for a while.

A fake smartphone is an expensive pleasure, although it will save several thousand rubles. Do not confuse it with a cheap replica - a copy of the appearance. A fake requires minimal differences from the original, but at the same time, lower quality materials and its own software: it should pay off in the same way as the original. With the development of technology and constant information leaks from developers, falsification becomes almost indistinguishable.

The table below lists the main signs by which you can find out whether it is a fake or an original.

Original Samsung Galaxy Note 3Fake Samsung Galaxy Note 3
S Pen stylus plastic, collapsibleStylus plastic molded or metal
Button on the stylus functionalButton on the stylus - imitation
Tip stylus plastic, hard, movable (goes into the body), thinStylus tip rubber, soft, thick
The stylus interacts with the screen until it touches (when approaching, a dot appears)The stylus only interacts with the screen when touched
Weight of the device 168 gWeight of the device is usually much less
SuperAmoled FHD screen *TFT screen *
MicroSim slotTwo or more slots for standard Sim (common, but not always)
Snapdragon 800 Quad Core 2.3 or Exynos 5 Octa 5420 [3 3]MTK processor of various versions
Operating system Android 4.3 or Android 4.4Operating system Android 4.1 or Android 4.2
The menu is fully Russified, with the exception of some names of proprietary applicationsThe menu contains symbols in English and abbreviations
It is possible to customize color profilesThemes are the same, the design elements are changed manually
Supports gesture controlDoes not support gestures
There are proprietary My Magazine applications, Samsung AppsBranded applications are replaced by third-party
There are no symbols next to the buttons on the bodyThe power button is signed
There is a Google Chrome browserThere is a Chinese browser
Samsung Kies clearly identifies a smartphone connected to a PCSamsung Kies does not understand what to work with

* SuperAmoled and TFT matrices use completely different technologies, so you can distinguish a real Samsung Galaxy Note 3 from a fake with a simple test. In a completely dark room, you need to open a black picture in your smartphone (it is often used to determine dead pixels). Even high-resolution TFT screens have backlighting, which will be noticeable. SuperAmoled does without it, using luminous pixels, so the original Note 3 with a black picture (background) opened through viewing images in the dark will not manifest itself in the dark - the screen will remain completely dark.

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