While HMD Global has put up a lot of resources together to reincarnate the legendary Nokia 3310 and the world is waiting for its arrival, in a new modern form, some dudes are already selling the clones.

In the earliest fake Nokia 3310 (2017) that surfaced and was sold online, it was easy to tell that the product was fake as the phone has contrast design from original 3310 (2017) and also carries a different manufacturer's name.


Earliest fake design carries S-Mobile as its manufacturer's name

But as for the new one currently being sold, it is very hard to know the phone is fake as the fake closely resembles the original. If you don't want to fall for scams, below are the ways to identify fake a Nokia3310 (2017):

How To Identify A Fake Nokia 3310 (2017)

The first pointer to spotting a fake Nokia 3310 (2017) is to look, very well, at the white outer lining that frames the screen and the three big keys (the navigation key, the option keys, and the call keys), below the screen. In the original 3310 (2017), the outer lining is elegant and radiant in colour white, while on the fake, the lining is off-white, in a dirty white colour.

Still on the lining, the white lining of the original phone doesn't occupy the whole side space beside the screen: the main colour of the phone, which runs from the back of the phone to the interspace between the alpha-numeric keypads, lines the outer edge of the white lining.



When the removable battery of the original Nokia 3310 (2017) is removed, the electronic circuit board, in colour green, of the phone is directly visible; its SIM slots and memory card slot are tucked in[/b]so that when the SIMs and the memory are inserted, only a small part of the memory card is visible, with the SIMs totally invisible, totally covered.

As for the fake model of the new 3310, the green electronic circuit board isn't visible from the back; it is covered by a layer of plastic, which doubles as the seat of the dual SIMs. The SIM slots are open and visible, not tucked in, and the memory card slot is on a slightly raised level above the SIM slots. This isn't only a way to identify a fake Nokia 3310 (2017), [b]it is a way to identify Chinese scrap phones.

Another way to identify a fake Nokia 3310 (2017) is through the LED flashlight of the phone. In the original, the flashlight is small but its light is bright when power on; in the fake the flashlight is unnecessarily big. The shape of the speaker of the 3310 (2017) is rectangular - - that of the fake is put into a perfect square, and that's a perfect way to identify the original from the fake.



Screen display on the original phone is curvy, while it is flat on the fake, and aside being flat, the fake phone also has a sort of protective glass covering its screen. A closer look at the screen display of the original and the fake phones gives more information that will help to identify a fake Nokia 3310 (2017).

For example on the original 3310 (2017), the battery icon (which shows the battery level) lies horizontally alone in the topmost right corner of the screen. The network signal bars and the names of the dual SIMs are displayed at the top left corner, SIM 1 signal bar and name lying above SIM 2 signal bar and name.



In the fake, the battery icon and the network signal bars of the two SIMs are all aligned in a single row at the top of the screen. Curiously, the fake phone maker put the SIMs names in the middle of the phone's screen.

On the keypads of the original Nokia 3310 (2017) phone, the keypads, except the three big ones in the white lining, are flat at almost at the same level as the phone's front surface. But on the fake, all the keypads are vividly raised above the surface of the phone.



To add to that, the back light of the keypads of the original 3310 (2017) is in colour white and perfectly lit all the keypads. A look at the fake model shows the back light comes in colour blue and lights beyond the keypads, spilling the light to the spaces in-between the keypads.

The final way to identify a fake Nokia 3310 (2017) is through the operating system. Nokia 3310 (2017) runs on Series 30+, while the fake model runs on a funny generic OS.

With these clear comparisons of the features of the original Nokia 3310 (2017) against the fake, I believe you should be able to identify a fake Nokia 3310 (2017), when you meet one. The phone will arrive in June for a starting price of USD 61.

Source: https://www.techrabytes.com/how-to-identify-a-fake-nokia-3310-2017/

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Phone wey just come out. I Never use eye see am sef, fake don dey.. Isorite

Copycats everywhere. Chinese guys can copy any thing.