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 Samsung Galaxy S III I9300 Official Thread V27, Best Smartphone of the year 2012 by GSMA

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zat_90s
post Feb 15 2013, 04:41 AM

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i thinking of buying Samsung Galaxy S3 2nd hand but scared to be cheated by seller....

and i saw a clone s3 in this link clone s3
the phone is more than 90% same outlook... n seriously i cant tell the difference as i never use s3 before...

glad if someone help me how to ensure the phone is original and not clone... tq! icon_question.gif icon_question.gif

dont want to spend 1.3k++ for clone unit... sad.gif
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post Feb 15 2013, 05:14 AM

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you guys see the AnTuTu banchmark 1st... it is taken from original phone or that clone.... its just too "original" for me...

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post Feb 15 2013, 12:46 PM

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QUOTE(waveweaver @ Feb 15 2013, 09:44 AM)
Call Samsung Careline and quote them the phone imei number. They can tell you if the phone is SME or AP or non-existant (clone)
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they can even differentiate AP and clone? i thought they only know original only... tq for the info... notworthy.gif
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post Feb 15 2013, 12:55 PM

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QUOTE(Andrewtst @ Feb 15 2013, 12:11 PM)
Buy from Samsung origin retailer shop (or telco shop) is the safer way, or bring someone really known about phone and better with one having real S III unit. Also always remember don't greedy on cheaper price, nothing in world is FOC or far far cheaper than suppose price.

Some tips:
The link you show me, I can immediate tell it was clone as they is two SIM card slot, one regular, one microSIM, no manufacture will ever do such, also bear in mind no manufacture will ever do dual SIM also for high end phone. (Only those clone will ever do that).

Beside this, search more internet review and photos, especially GSMArena and PhoneArena, then you can easier rectified it was origin or clone. From the OS screen, the pull down notification is the most obvious to tell it was not origin. The status bar clock & battery icon also in wrong ICS blue color, Samsung still using green battery icon and the S III clock was in white grey.

The setting menu in origin Android look tell this was clone as well.

Also the Accuweather was the old design (from S II) also immediate tell this was not the origin.
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tq for those tips... really helpful... thumbup.gif thumbup.gif

about the price i agree... just that i thought maybe cheater can sell the clone hp as same as original..(just to be seems like ori)

after check the benchmark there, i was suprise about the details... what do u think about it? its just too real right? any different with your original s3?



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