How to distinguish whether an Apple Iphone is real or fake

A lot of people ask the same question when they see an unit of Apple Iphone on ebay. The question is whether the item is real or faked. It's an legitimate question because the price difference could be more than 4 times.

Although a lot of Apple Iphone substitutes and clones have been released, there are still a lot of unique Apple Iphone features that has not yet been successfully cloned. Here is the list:

1. Apple Iphone has a GPS feature. Up till now there's no one successfully clone the GPS feature. So if the alleged apple iphone you are looking at has a functional GPS feature, more probable than not, it's the real deal.

2. Apple Iphone has full iTune support. In another word, you can say an Iphone is an Ipod with phone capacity. iTune is a patent technology of Apple. Till now, only Apple Ipod is iTune compatible. So if the alleged apple iphone you are looking at has a functional GPS feature, more probable than not, it's the real deal.

3. Apple Iphone has speaker phone feature, while most clones, surprisingly, do not have the speaker phone feature. So if the alleged apple iphone you are looking at has no speaker phone feature, you know something is wrong.

4. Apple Iphone is a quadband phone, meaning that it support 800/ 900/ 1800/ 1900 MHz while a lot, actually more than 99% of the fakes, are only triband, some are only dual band actually!!

5. Also all Apple Iphone comes with manufacturer warranty, and the serial number on the phone match that on the warranty card and the serial number on the phone box. So if serial numbers don't match, you know something is wrong. Well at least, for sure, it's not a brand new in box phone.

Simply by asking and confirmation information mentioned in the above list could screen out 99.9% of faked Apple iphone listing.

And most importantly there's no free meal and you will not be able to “steal an iphone” by placing a bid at the last minute. If you see an alleged brand new Apple Iphone for sale on ebay for less than $300USD, you know something is wrong. If the price is too good to be true, it probably is. Just be smart and you will save yourself a lot of money.

And honestly it's ten million time safer signing up a 3 year 3G phone plan at Rogers, AT & T, T-mobile, etc... to get your Apple 3G iPhone rather than gambling with your money on eBay.