You may be thinking of getting a new mobile phone, and one that is also from the Samsung brand. In this case, you have decided to take advantage of a second-hand sale at a good price and you do not know how to know if a Samsung is original. Well, you have not got the wrong article because we are going to tell you different tricks or methods so that you have the certainty that the Samsung you want to buy is original. Because yes, unfortunately you have to be very careful with the second-hand market today.
Don't worry about anything, knowing what you pay for is the most logical thing in the world. And although it may seem something very technical, from here we tell you that at all, that you will be able to do it when you finish reading this little post. These are basic tips that you can apply one by one to know if you are really going to pay for an original mobile phone or if on the contrary, they were trying to scam you.
In the end, if you know two or three methods, you will have enough to know if it is original or not. For example, we will show you what the IMEI number is and where to find it. In any case and first of all, it should be said that if you discover that this phone is not original you should report it to the police by means of a complaint. I said, we do not make you wait longer than your Samsung if it is waiting for you. We go there with the list of basic tips to know if a Samsung is original or not.
How to know if a Samsung is original: basic methods to follow
Monitor the IMEI code of the mobile phone
To give you the idea if you have never heard of the IMEI code before, it is like the ID of mobile phones. That is, the code that identifies the phone and cannot be duplicated. Each mobile phone only has one. It's like people and their identity documents. In order to know this number you will have to look at the box, look at the case as such and also internally in the software. The three codes have to match in any case. If they don't, bad business. Not to mention that if one of them is deleted, you should be very suspicious that it is a fake phone.
You have to know that mobile phones that are stolen are usually added another IMEI code because if you, as the owner of a stolen mobile phone, report the fact, the operators will block the use. As we tell you, If the IMEI on the box does not match the one on the case or the software, it is most likely stolen or have it touched up at some point for whatever reason. In that case, my advice is not to even think of paying for that Samsung. If you have arrived here it is because you were concerned about how to know if a Samsung is original, because here you have the main method to find out.
Check the hardware or features of the mobile phone
So that they do not give us a hoax we can verify the hardware, that is, the characteristics and power of the mobile phone. You can verify this by knowing what the powers of your mobile phone are searching the internet for different benchmarks. Once you have them, you can install different apps that will give you the same data that you have searched for on the Internet. There you will see if your phone gives the figures it has to reach or if, on the contrary, it has other totally different hardware and it has been covered by Samsung. In this way you will check well if it is original or if in the end it is all housing and little power.
Try to find out if it is under warranty or not
Many mobile phone manufacturers will allow you to check from their official websites if your mobile phone is under warranty or not. If from the first moment you have been told that it is in the warranty period and then you check on any of these websites that it is not, you already have another reason to distrust the seller.
In the case of Samsung, as far as we know, it does not have a section on its official website to check the status of the warranty, but what it has is different numbers of telephone number to get in touch with them and that they can offer you the same information and even much more. In the end you already know that, at least if you are from Spain, here you have by law two years of warranty on the product from the moment you buy it. As a general rule and unless you contract other types of things in the buying and selling process, one of the warranty years is covered by the center where you bought it and another by the brand.
We hope this article has been helpful to you and that from now on you will be able to answer the question of how to know if a Samsung is original or not. Above all, we hope that your phone is original and you have not been scammed. If the bad has happened our advice is that heor let the police know by means of a complaint to the seller. You will have to provide all the data of the sale purchase and give details of the entire process, nothing more.
In any case, if you have any questions or suggestions because we have missed any details, you can leave them in the comments box that you will find below at the end of the article. See you in the next post Android Guías.