Few things fill as much excitement as having the opportunity to purchase a new "high-end" mobile phone. Unfortunately, the scammers know this and take advantage of the buyer's illusion and excitement to sell pirated equipment. Piracy has gone a long way, today thousands of are sold stolen, refurbished or used cell phones.
Almost the same price or slightly less than the original or the new one, this undoubtedly worries many consumers. But not only those who buy cell phones, the shops where the originals are sold have also been affected. All of this leads us to look for ways to check if the equipment that we are going to buy is what we want.
How to check if the mobile is new
There are several ways to know if the mobile they offer us it really is a new one device. The most used we can suggest is IMEI verification, the unique registration number for each mobile. It is an identification assigned to each Smartphone and is universal and can be verified from anywhere in the world.
We will mention three quick and easy ways so that you can know the IMEI of the equipment you want to buy. Usually this appears in the equipment box on one of the sides, it also appears inside. In this case, if you can remove the phone cover, you can see the IMEI next to the battery.
Finally, we can also advise you to use a simpler method, which is to enter a code on the same computer. To do this, open the Call Dialer App, enter the following code: * # 06 # immediately the IMEI of the equipment will appear. Now we can check if the IMEI of the box is the same as it appears on the screen. If they are not the same, we can already deduce that something is wrong with this mobile phone, it may even have been stolen.
When a mobile phone is stolen, the most common and recommended thing is that they report it as soon as possible. In this way they can block the IMEI of the mobile, for this reason thieves change the IMEI of the equipment. That is why it is important to follow the steps we recommend for check the IMEI of the mobile phone you want to buy.
How to know if a mobile phone has been refurbished?
Another way to know if the mobile phone is new, stolen or refurbished is to perform a performance test. To perform this test we must use the benchmarking tools available in the App created for this purpose. Through these apps we can determine if the mobile phone meets the requirements of its range or not.
If when using one of these benchmarking apps the team gives us different performance than they should. Most likely, we are dealing with one reconditioned team, that is, with modified components, a pirate team.
There are other ways to specifically determine if the mobile phone offered to us has or not i its original components. Someone may have doubts about the components of the equipment, especially if the equipment is high-end. It is very common, for example, that Iphone models are modified to be sold at slightly lower prices.
To specifically determine if components have changed, we can use the app created to determine component performance. These Apps allow you to control essential components such as the processor, GPU and battery which are usually replaced.
Another way to determine if the mobile phone is new or used is to check its warranty. The warranties are proof of the authenticity of the equipment and by checking them we can determine if it is new or not.
Their verification varies depending on the brand of the phone, some have online technical support. As in the case of Huawei which has a site with support for itself it is original.
Other brands like Sony, LG, and Samsung don't have a direct tool, but you can call their tech service. Thanks to all these tools mentioned, the illusion of buy a new cell phone it won't turn into a nightmare.
