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This 15 year old FAKE iPhone is incredible(ly bad)

Luke Miani
2024 ж. 7 Мам.
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The world of fake iPhones is definitely a fun one, and honestly in recent years fake makers have gotten pretty clever! They've improved dramatically since the old days... speaking of which I managed to buy a couple FAKE iPhone 3GS- really early replicas from the late 2000s! So what exactly can you do with a 15 year old fake iPhone? let's see!
time stamps
0:00 intro
2:51 unbox time
4:57 silly user manual
7:17 using this thing is impossible
8:52 finally getting somewhere
10:15 trying apps
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  • This little thing is so bad 😂 Your browser is holding you back. Level up with Opera here: opr.as/Opera-browser-LukeMiani

    @lukemiani@lukemiani7 ай бұрын

    • 3 minutes ago

      @Tamay.@Tamay.7 ай бұрын

    • 1 hour ago

      @nprpps@nprpps7 ай бұрын

    • no.

      @brandon_nope@brandon_nope7 ай бұрын

    • I would like to have one

      @yifanxu0428@yifanxu04287 ай бұрын

    • even my Opera Browser for Nokia 15 Years ago still working better than this e-waste

      @slvr_l7732@slvr_l77327 ай бұрын

  • Genuinely impressed it reads the 128gb card. I expected it to have a max of... 2 or so.

    @rollingtroll@rollingtroll7 ай бұрын

    • Me too. It identifies it as half its actual size, but that's much more than I expected. I believed it would not even read it since it, like most modern cards, is XC type, and that was virtually nonexistent on the market in 2009 (it was released that same year but one can imagine most devices did not support it yet, let alone a piece of china junk like this).

      @BilisNegra@BilisNegra7 ай бұрын

  • I worked in a cell phone store at that time. The amount of fake iPhones I saw at that time was ridiculous. Mainly because there were genuinely a lot of people who believed they were the real thing.

    @AMDista@AMDista7 ай бұрын

  • Ain't no way he called it "Oprah one" 😭

    @echaglund@echaglund7 ай бұрын

    • For a nice night out, I recommend going to see an “Oprah”

      @EFCONNECT@EFCONNECT7 ай бұрын

    • Since when did Oprah get a web browser

      @Dark_Umbre@Dark_Umbre7 ай бұрын

    • Hahahaha

      @techspin2130@techspin21307 ай бұрын

    • It’s Oprah because he’s giving away phones. You get a fake iPhone! You get a fake iPhone! And you get a fake iPhone!

      @techspin2130@techspin21307 ай бұрын

    • Oprah time

      @aomregcik@aomregcik6 ай бұрын

  • Luke: Buys 12 fake iPhones Seller: We finally sold some of our stock!

    @IsaiahBuildStuff@IsaiahBuildStuff7 ай бұрын

    • Lmao

      @JRBowling1997@JRBowling19977 ай бұрын

    • Oprah paid for them!

      @anidnmeno@anidnmeno7 ай бұрын

  • I laughed so hard every time the music came up 🤣🤣

    @TopEvt@TopEvt7 ай бұрын

  • You could try using the 3GP file format as it might be compatible.

    @sameerakarunanayake2106@sameerakarunanayake21067 ай бұрын

    • YES!

      @TommyLie@TommyLie7 ай бұрын

    • Exactly what I was going to comment!

      @azelusnova@azelusnova6 ай бұрын

  • I remember walking around NYC back in the day and seeing street vendors and pan handlers selling fake phones like this.

    @mattb9664@mattb96647 ай бұрын

  • Luke, you're a champ for taking one for the team and testing these out. Can't wait to see who gets to inherit these vintage treasures

    @JustAPersonWhoComments@JustAPersonWhoComments7 ай бұрын

    • Please no!

      @ernstoud@ernstoud7 ай бұрын

  • I'm from Argentina and I got the SAME phone when I was a teenager 😂 My dad bought it during a trip to Paraguay and I honestly hated it but it was a gift so I couldn't say anything 😅

    @carzeta9846@carzeta98467 ай бұрын

    • Lucky!

      @mexidraw@mexidraw7 ай бұрын

    • Lo sigues teniendo? jajaja

      @CiRdy34@CiRdy346 ай бұрын

  • Ok but the way it somehow has handwriting recognition actually boggles my mind

    @ConceptCentral@ConceptCentral7 ай бұрын

    • bruh i didnt expect you to show up on the comments

      @NoFoCatYT@NoFoCatYT7 ай бұрын

    • if it's meant to be old i'm not sure if that even makes sense in the first place :P

      @catto24@catto247 ай бұрын

  • I remember buying a very similar (if not the same) fake. This was before subsidies made it possible for me to afford a real iphone. I knew it wouldn't be viable to seriously use but the whole touch screen thing was so cool and futuristic I could not resist.

    @sarcasmallover8999@sarcasmallover89997 ай бұрын

    • “Could not resist”…I’d say I see what you did there, but I’m not sure it was intentional 😏😃

      @ebubeawachie@ebubeawachie7 ай бұрын

  • The phone language is in Indonesian, I think they were supposed to be for the Indonesian market where some people like the feel of having an iPhone without actually buying an iPhone

    @alifpr@alifpr7 ай бұрын

    • was about to say the same thing...

      @flammableman528@flammableman5287 ай бұрын

    • why would they like the feel of having an iphone without buying one?

      @sunekichi@sunekichi6 ай бұрын

  • Hi , You need to talk about the heating of the iPhone 15 Pro Max, I was in a conversation that lasted more than 5 minutes and the iPhone started to get really hot, I couldn't touch it until it cooled down! I had to return it ! First time in my life that I returned an Apple product! And I'm really shocked by the situation!

    @ef439@ef4397 ай бұрын

  • Oprah Winfrey giving these away? She makes a good browser huh?

    @xenon9887@xenon98877 ай бұрын

  • Luke, if you´ll set this lovely jingle as your Ringtone, I´ll give you 50 Bucks...

    @JDCarnin@JDCarnin7 ай бұрын

  • Fakes were and will be here, forever…

    @CarPelg@CarPelg7 ай бұрын

  • Oprah one: *You get a fake iPhone! And you get a fake iPhone! Everyone gets a fake iPhone!*

    @TimurTripp2@TimurTripp27 ай бұрын

  • I love how you called it Oprah instead of Opera lmao

    @Sn0wman_308@Sn0wman_3087 ай бұрын

  • Back in, I think, 2007 or 2008, I got what was called a iClone phone. It had a stylus that resembled this one and I was able to put dual SIMs in it if I wanted to. I was actually able to get online and such with it. No App Store support but at that time, that wasn't a big deal. After I did get a different phone I actually still used it as a MP3 player lol.

    @terrywarnold@terrywarnold7 ай бұрын

  • It seems to have a JAVA based OS having the almost same UI as most companies did at the time, but this company at least tried to mimic the apps as in iOS (iPhoneOS) back then 😅

    @vedanshchn@vedanshchn7 ай бұрын

    • the os is from mediatek and not all models can run java, it's called nucleus rtos

      @namesurname4666@namesurname46667 ай бұрын

    • If it is Nucleus, makes me wonder what processor is running inside of it@@namesurname4666

      @TylerFurrison@TylerFurrison6 ай бұрын

  • Did he say Oprah 1? Did they get bought by Oprah Winfrey?😂

    @DanZimmerli@DanZimmerli7 ай бұрын

  • Those aren't "focus modes". They are exactly what they're called - user profiles. Which is a feature even the Nokia 3310 from the year 2000 had.

    @jannedbal9336@jannedbal93366 ай бұрын

  • I love how you kept playing that sound. This needs to be a recurring meme, I love it 😂

    @anianii@anianii7 ай бұрын

  • I love your work man! This is one of your best videos!

    @kennyjayhardy@kennyjayhardy7 ай бұрын

  • Why his face looks always so concerned? Like “oh my god I’m so happy” with a crazy frown

    @drujbanu@drujbanu6 ай бұрын

  • The fact that the hand writting actually works is something truly amazing judging by the quality of both the hardware and software xd

    @jonathanlara1297@jonathanlara12977 ай бұрын

    • xd

      @mexidraw@mexidraw6 ай бұрын

  • Wait, the Opera Browser is pronounced like “Oprah” the TV host, not like “opera”, the musical/dramatic art form?

    @furmanarrangements@furmanarrangements7 ай бұрын

    • No he's just saying it wrong lol

      @StuartGelin@StuartGelin7 ай бұрын

  • It has a user-replaceable battery, dual SIM, handwriting recognition, and an SD card slot. In those ways, it's better than a modern Iphone.

    @Alpha8713@Alpha87137 ай бұрын

    • We have all of these except for replaceable battery and SD card

      @Blindperson38@Blindperson386 ай бұрын

  • I remember my first ever phone in like 2009 also had profiles, the "meeting" profile was just a fancy silent mode which would still turn on the screen for notifications but wouldn't vibrate or sound and so on, I also remember there resistive touch screen were just keypad phones with a terrible touch screen running Java based OS's

    @agusorellana5551@agusorellana55517 ай бұрын

  • The handwriting recognition reminds me of the Simpsons episode featuring the Newton. 🤣

    @GundarkHunter@GundarkHunter7 ай бұрын

  • Id love to have one of those I love to collect old tech even if it’s fake

    @detailmafia1750@detailmafia17507 ай бұрын

  • I saw a listing for the same phone on taobao, the listing shows maybe like over 50 units,brand new (seems to be unsold inventory) and the price seems to be like 30 yuan I believe. As for the manual, the reason why the it’s different is because it was used for another clone called the “SCIPhone”.

    @RuixuanRetroPhoneArchive@RuixuanRetroPhoneArchive7 ай бұрын

  • if its pre-2010 100% it's 3gp for videos, probably max 360p

    @chikinrasshu@chikinrasshu7 ай бұрын

  • Ashens had a video either talking about this or a very similar iPhone clone back in 09 or 2010. Had exactly the same calculator. Those knock-offs were EVERYWHERE in southern Europe.

    @porteiromendes8466@porteiromendes84666 ай бұрын

  • This was painful to watch. I imagine it was even more painful for you to make. Respect ✊

    @midzdotdev@midzdotdev7 ай бұрын

  • Great video as usual

    @khalinrao6089@khalinrao60897 ай бұрын

  • Did... did that thing just work with a 128GB sdcard? A lot of old digital cameras SHIT themselves if you put something larger then 2GB in them. Why is the logical block addressing on this thing so good?

    @qwertykeyboard5901@qwertykeyboard59017 ай бұрын

    • From what I saw approximately only half the capacity was recognised and used

      @iainhughes4630@iainhughes46307 ай бұрын

    • @@iainhughes4630 I did kinda notice that, but hey, it actually did something! The phone didn't crash or corrupt the filesystem!

      @qwertykeyboard5901@qwertykeyboard59017 ай бұрын

  • Please can we get a hi quality recording of that startup sound!

    @mattgough3856@mattgough38567 ай бұрын

  • LOL this is fun stuff Luke

    @camikiller@camikiller7 ай бұрын

  • at least Fake iPhone is in 2027 regulations about removable battery

    @ronlevin2339@ronlevin23397 ай бұрын

  • Love the videos

    @Geometryman2232@Geometryman22327 ай бұрын

  • No way those are worth the soul selling of getting on Twitter.

    @slightlynuts@slightlynuts7 ай бұрын

  • That boot music be stuck in my head now XD

    @SomeWolf@SomeWolf7 ай бұрын

  • thank you for genuinely putting the phone ringtone of these fake iPhones in my head 😂

    @cloudy_xDD@cloudy_xDD7 ай бұрын

  • Luke, you're probably the only person in the entire world who bought more than 1 of these And you're definitely the only person to buy 12...

    @Just_Lou722@Just_Lou7227 ай бұрын

  • I found out dual sims are big in a lot of countries. My birth country for example its like a downgrade to a lot of people if it doesn't have dual sim. Dual sim is far more important to a lot of people there than speed for example especially nowadays where the speed is acceptable to most people on most phones

    @AnesuC@AnesuC7 ай бұрын

  • I bet if you put a 3gp video file it will play it. It was the standard video format for feature phones back then.

    @crashbandicoot4everr@crashbandicoot4everr7 ай бұрын

  • I have one of these in my collection. It even has analog TV inside. With telescopic TV antenna you can pull out of its back.

    @andrasszabo7386@andrasszabo73867 ай бұрын

  • Love this videos 😂

    @MateusHacker5048@MateusHacker5048Ай бұрын

  • I actually owned and used a Sciphone i68+ (iPhone 2G clone, very similar to those ones) back from june to september 2009: it was a real nightmare, but it was somehow - yet barely - usable.

    @TheCinaedus@TheCinaedus7 ай бұрын

  • I'd love to spend a decent amount of time with the phone just to see if I could get anything working😂

    @christianadamo@christianadamo7 ай бұрын

  • New drinking game! Drink every time Luke says "dude" 😆

    @tad1996@tad19967 ай бұрын

  • Very good video and very entertaining. This was fun, but I would be afraid of those phones...LOL.

    @Allinfun6789@Allinfun67897 ай бұрын

  • I unhealthily love these. I need one to slip into my iPhone collection 😂

    @a.mgaming3418@a.mgaming34187 ай бұрын

  • I love everything about this, it's so cute and I love it

    @Sammyml@Sammyml7 ай бұрын

  • in the big sea of fake "Welcome" devices, this is for sure a breath of fresh air

    @zer0366@zer03667 ай бұрын

  • You will have to pay us to take these phones off your hands.

    @IThrowSticks@IThrowSticks7 ай бұрын

  • Can you please review the kuycon G27x an Apple studio replica with the same display. thanks!

    @IlumiNervGaming@IlumiNervGaming7 ай бұрын

  • Nice. They made an iPhone Mini much before Apple did.

    @arkantochiron@arkantochiron7 ай бұрын

    • apple never made one in the first place

      @countryland69@countryland697 ай бұрын

    • ​@@countryland69iPhone 12 Mini?

      @smashkommentiert@smashkommentiert6 ай бұрын

    • @@smashkommentiert i meant mini mini

      @countryland69@countryland696 ай бұрын

  • Nah. Instant e-waste.

    @xsleep1@xsleep17 ай бұрын

  • Literally watching this on Opera and had been using it for like 10 years now

    @Offie-et7zp@Offie-et7zp7 ай бұрын

    • *Oprah 😂😂😂

      @StuartGelin@StuartGelin7 ай бұрын

  • Oprah sponsored the video?

    @emmanuelwood8702@emmanuelwood87027 ай бұрын

  • I watch so much DankPods that just immediately assumed Luke was gonna blow those headphones up

    @Eryc001@Eryc0017 ай бұрын

  • id love to have one of those, i love collecting old phones😋

    @TJDownchurch@TJDownchurch7 ай бұрын

  • Love ya Luke, but how do I enter the give away to win NOT getting one of those?!

    @soupdancer17@soupdancer177 ай бұрын

  • Some of them seem to use Indonesian Language. Maybe some are from Indonesia... (note they have lots of scam phones from Shopee and Tokopedia)

    @ethanisaiahmanumpil9408@ethanisaiahmanumpil94087 ай бұрын

  • That booting sound will hunt me in my dreams

    @hansmuller5165@hansmuller51657 ай бұрын

  • That was my second "smartphone" such a waste of money xd

    @sebasdco@sebasdco7 ай бұрын

  • My cousin had that same exact phone for some weird reason a long time ago! Omg I haven’t seen it in ages 😂😂

    @notspacedarlings@notspacedarlings7 ай бұрын

  • How do you not know 3gp video format? I had a similar phone in 2008. But it was a candy bar with same software

    @teginder0771@teginder07716 ай бұрын

  • I listened to DRK Mode, and I'm doing my part by watching this video.

    @Rabbit_AF@Rabbit_AF7 ай бұрын

  • I remember these fake phones very well

    @zaremol2779@zaremol27797 ай бұрын

  • Being that it is old, the video format could be wmv or maybe mp2.

    @thumbtak123@thumbtak1237 ай бұрын

  • Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you played with a PDA

    @richardbudzynski2798@richardbudzynski27987 ай бұрын

  • what was the listing called?

    @Cart1416@Cart14167 ай бұрын

  • I want that boot sound

    @mrcyborg9216@mrcyborg92167 ай бұрын

  • I think that startup melody is actually from a Chinese song sang by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. Could not recall the name of the song though.

    @tecnic4@tecnic47 ай бұрын

    • ok

      @iskrassupercoolchannel@iskrassupercoolchannel7 ай бұрын

  • I remember buying a fake ipod touch that was just as horrible to operate, so it didn't last me long.

    @rubenkalmbach@rubenkalmbach7 ай бұрын

  • Thats crazy bruh

    @alexpetrov8312@alexpetrov83127 ай бұрын

  • you should put the boot music to outro :D

    @Programierer93@Programierer937 ай бұрын

  • Awful for sure, but at least the fake has replaceable batteries!

    @cjc363636@cjc3636367 ай бұрын

    • And stylus!

      @cjc363636@cjc3636367 ай бұрын

  • I've seen lots of these fakes back in the day. Almost all of them had different features, from stylus to retractable TV antenna, but one thing all of them had in common - every single one of them was incredibly bad. Like - absolutely terrible. Unresponsive touchscreens, badly made java UI, phone signal reception that was so bad, you had to walk around to find a signal, Horrendous speakers, lack of any bit of build quality - everything was there. Also - two sims, and a camera lottery, meaning that roughly 6 times out of 10 you had really bad camera (remember, kids, iphone cameras also were awful until iPhone 5S or so, but this was wholly another level of awful) and 4 out of 10 it wouldn't even work. Guess that's how it was back in the day. Nowadays you can get cheap good iphone that is still relevant, or get a good android phone for the same price.

    @OmegaEnvych@OmegaEnvych7 ай бұрын

  • Wooow I love the old Chinese iPhones videos!

    @GioFo@GioFo7 ай бұрын

  • Hahah I love that you actually got 12 of them :D

    @andi@andi7 ай бұрын

  • It is new but old stock probably didn't sold very well lol i used to have one during cambodia vacation 😊

    @epthproduction6052@epthproduction60527 ай бұрын

  • Which operation system does it use?

    @jeffyu8854@jeffyu88547 ай бұрын

  • Nice phone dude 😂 , awesome video ❤

    @azmedz@azmedz7 ай бұрын

  • That music though! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    @drewbin101@drewbin1017 ай бұрын

  • The boot song tho 😂

    @POLI-TECHS@POLI-TECHS7 ай бұрын

  • God... that boot music... LOL

    @ariahjade34@ariahjade347 ай бұрын

  • At least they got the battery size right.

    @Halsdran@Halsdran7 ай бұрын

  • Reminds of earlier sony phones like the 990i but at least they worked OK.

    @frazerweb@frazerweb7 ай бұрын

  • i wonder if it uses 3GP for the video Codec u can convert a mp4 to the lowest 3gp 3GP file format supports the following codecs: Video. MPEG-4 Part 2. H.263. MPEG-4 Part 10 (AVC/H.264) Audio. AMR-WB. AMR-WB+ AMR-NB. AAC-LC. HE-AAC v1. HE-AAC v2 (Enhanced aacPlus)

    @AnthonyChopra@AnthonyChopra7 ай бұрын

  • I need this!

    @presidentialcampaignads@presidentialcampaignads7 ай бұрын

  • When I was 10 Ashens really sold me on the fake IPhone 4’s GooPhone and AirPhone4 😭😂 at 10 years old and for £50 when I just got birthday money it all sounded too good

    @ethanlittle776@ethanlittle7767 ай бұрын

  • I really want one lol Only for the funny music lol Maybe some other funny tweaks

    @lukastechtips@lukastechtips7 ай бұрын

  • Did you try putting an mpeg2 video file in it?

    @kblam1001@kblam10016 ай бұрын

  • "Vintage fake iPhone" yeah, I'm getting old

    @anidnmeno@anidnmeno7 ай бұрын

  • Honestly, I had one of these fake iPhones, bit more sophisticated than this, I remember the touch screen you have to use your fingernails and pinch on it to work😂

    @scottsun345@scottsun3457 ай бұрын
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