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

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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!
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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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@lukemiani 10 ай бұрын

This little thing is so bad 😂 Your browser is holding you back. Level up with Opera here: opr.as/Opera-browser-LukeMiani

@Tamay. 10 ай бұрын

3 minutes ago

@nprpps 10 ай бұрын

1 hour ago

@brandon_nope 9 ай бұрын

no.

@yifanxu0428 9 ай бұрын

I would like to have one

@slvr_l7732 9 ай бұрын

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

@AMDista 10 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.

@rollingtroll 10 ай бұрын

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

@BilisNegra 10 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).

@echaglund 10 ай бұрын

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

@EFCONNECT 9 ай бұрын

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

@techspin2130 9 ай бұрын

Hahahaha

@techspin2130 9 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!

@aomregcik 9 ай бұрын

Oprah time

@sikachukuning2473 8 ай бұрын

This is the definition of torturing yourself just for content

@JustAPersonWhoComments 10 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

@ernstoud 10 ай бұрын

Please no!

@TopEvt 10 ай бұрын

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

@mattb9664 10 ай бұрын

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

@IsaiahBuildStuff 10 ай бұрын

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

@JRBowling1997 10 ай бұрын

Lmao

@anidnmeno 9 ай бұрын

Oprah paid for them!

@sameerakarunanayake2106 10 ай бұрын

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

@TommyLie 9 ай бұрын

YES!

@azelusnova 9 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was going to comment!

@the2323guy Ай бұрын

or .mpg

@sarcasmallover8999 10 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.

@ebubeawachie 10 ай бұрын

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

@carzeta9846 10 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 😅

@mexidraw 9 ай бұрын

Lucky!

@CiRdy34 9 ай бұрын

Lo sigues teniendo? jajaja

@ConceptCentral 10 ай бұрын

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

@NoFoCatYT 9 ай бұрын

bruh i didnt expect you to show up on the comments

@catto24 9 ай бұрын

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

@xenon9887 10 ай бұрын

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

@CarPelg 10 ай бұрын

Fakes were and will be here, forever…

@terrywarnold 10 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.

@JDCarnin 10 ай бұрын

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

@TimurTripp2 9 ай бұрын

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

@ef439 10 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!

@alifpr 9 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

@flammableman528 9 ай бұрын

was about to say the same thing...

@sunekichi 9 ай бұрын

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

@mcbchannel7173 16 күн бұрын

i'm indonesian and i never seen anyone use this junk, that's probably why it still sitting on the store shelf for decades.

@anianii 10 ай бұрын

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

@drujbanu 9 ай бұрын

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

@vedanshchn 10 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 😅

@namesurname4666 10 ай бұрын

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

@TylerFurrison 9 ай бұрын

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

@DanZimmerli 10 ай бұрын

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

@kennyjayhardy 10 ай бұрын

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

@Sn0wman_308 10 ай бұрын

I love how you called it Oprah instead of Opera lmao

@jannedbal9336 9 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.

@RuixuanRetroPhoneArchive 9 ай бұрын

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

@GundarkHunter 10 ай бұрын

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

@jonathanlara1297 9 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

@mexidraw 9 ай бұрын

@camikiller 10 ай бұрын

LOL this is fun stuff Luke

@MateusHacker5048 3 ай бұрын

Love this videos 😂

@Allinfun6789 10 ай бұрын

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

@detailmafia1750 10 ай бұрын

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

@mattgough3856 10 ай бұрын

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

@IThrowSticks 10 ай бұрын

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

@khalinrao6089 10 ай бұрын

Great video as usual

@agusorellana5551 10 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

@cloudy_xDD 9 ай бұрын

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

@a.mgaming3418 10 ай бұрын

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

@porteiromendes8466 9 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.

@Geometryman2232 10 ай бұрын

Love the videos

@ronlevin2339 10 ай бұрын

at least Fake iPhone is in 2027 regulations about removable battery

@tad1996 10 ай бұрын

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

@SomeWolf 10 ай бұрын

That boot music be stuck in my head now XD

@zer0366 9 ай бұрын

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

@christianadamo 10 ай бұрын

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

@Sammyml 9 ай бұрын

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

@midzdotdev 10 ай бұрын

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

@Eryc001 10 ай бұрын

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

@kevinvanwolferenkvw 9 ай бұрын

Lmao "this looks like it is rescued from the titanic 😂"

@andrasszabo7386 9 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.

@emmanuelwood8702 9 ай бұрын

Oprah sponsored the video?

@qwertykeyboard5901 10 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?

@iainhughes4630 10 ай бұрын

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

@qwertykeyboard5901 10 ай бұрын

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

@zaremol2779 9 ай бұрын

I remember these fake phones very well

@slightlynuts 10 ай бұрын

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

@iamtafara 10 ай бұрын

Yeah im looking forward to getting a fake iPhone 3

@Cart1416 9 ай бұрын

what was the listing called?

@TheCinaedus 10 ай 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.

@ariahjade34 9 ай бұрын

God... that boot music... LOL

@alexpetrov8312 10 ай бұрын

Thats crazy bruh

@Just_Lou722 10 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...

@drewbin101 10 ай бұрын

That music though! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@mrcyborg9216 10 ай бұрын

I want that boot sound

@lukastechtips 9 ай бұрын

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

@presidentialcampaignads 9 ай бұрын

I need this!

@POLI-TECHS 10 ай бұрын

The boot song tho 😂

@YaretziaGarcia 10 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 😂😂

@sebasdco 10 ай бұрын

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

@Alpha8713 10 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.

@Blindperson38 9 ай бұрын

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

@crashbandicoot4everr 10 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.

@AnesuC 10 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

@TJDownchurch 10 ай бұрын

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

@hansmuller5165 10 ай бұрын

That booting sound will hunt me in my dreams

@Rabbit_AF 9 ай бұрын

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

@blablablablabla9859 10 ай бұрын

In the name of chicken burger, I got is chicken leg piece with 2 buns covering it, can u believe that

@MorbidGod391 10 ай бұрын

9:01 confirmed that the English language keeps screen working lol 😂

@tornow1500 10 ай бұрын

“Who wants a stylus?”

@furmanarrangements 10 ай бұрын

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

@StuartGelin 10 ай бұрын

No he's just saying it wrong lol

@jeffyu8854 9 ай бұрын

Which operation system does it use?

@antonioargese1373 9 ай бұрын

The boot music is now my Ringtone

@rubenkalmbach 10 ай бұрын

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

@andi 10 ай бұрын

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

@azmedz 10 ай бұрын

Nice phone dude 😂 , awesome video ❤

@Offie-et7zp 10 ай бұрын

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

@StuartGelin 10 ай бұрын

*Oprah 😂😂😂

@chikinrasshu 10 ай бұрын

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

@ElevatorWasher5000 9 ай бұрын

I’d love to have one of those fake phones lmao

@AndersHass 10 ай бұрын

I wonder if this was recorded before the Aussie trip, lol

@lukemiani 10 ай бұрын

It was 😆

@isaacwright2247 9 ай бұрын

@@lukemiani When Aussie trip gonna end? Also, you gonna bring the iPhone 15 back to America?

@MegaDrainProductions 9 ай бұрын

The auto color calibration was going wild whenever the camera was pointed at the table

@harrisonrobins3689 9 ай бұрын

8:32 **Insert legendary startup sound here**

@AJBenninger-yx1yb 9 ай бұрын

Oprah does help my web browsing experience 😂

@arkantochiron 9 ай бұрын

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

@countryland69 9 ай бұрын

apple never made one in the first place

@smashkommentiert 9 ай бұрын

@@countryland69iPhone 12 Mini?

@countryland69 9 ай бұрын

@@smashkommentiert i meant mini mini

@Prestoneko 8 ай бұрын

You sould make that boot up sound your notification sound

@tecnic4 10 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.

@iskrassupercoolchannel 9 ай бұрын

@MrBaskins2010 10 ай бұрын

"so i bought twelve" lololol

@alexmercerind 10 ай бұрын

That music... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@ethanlittle776 9 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