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The Nokia N95 is one of the coolest phones out there. Unfortunately this means that some Chinese companies are working hard to take advantage of you to make a few bucks. Learn how to spot the fake N95's so that you don't get ripped off. There are a lot of them out there, especially on eBay!

Spec Differences:

real N95 is 850/900/1800/1900, quad band. fake is only 900/1800, which means that it almost surely won't work on your network in the U.S. Some sellers know their phone is fake, and list the stats as 900/1800 only, but you should know that this is still a fake phone. It will work as a phone on 900/1800 networks, but it is not a Nokia and does not have all the features the real N95 has.
real N95 has 5 megapixel camera, fake one reportedly is only 2 or 3.
real N95 has GPS feature, not sure but I've heard the fake one doesn't.
real N95 comes with usb cable, TV-out cable, software CD, and headphone. Fakes generally come with none of these

Touchscreen: RED FLAG. The real Nokia doesn't have a touchscreen. The fake ones do. You can tell that it is fake by the row of touchscreen icons at the bottom of the display.

Buttons: On the fake N95 the buttons are cheaper, but they also have different symbols on them. If the buttons look like "Play/Pause" and "Stop," then RED FLAG. On the real Nokia, it's some different symbols, like in the bottom example above. A circular -shaped logo and a diamond-shaped logo.

Box: This may not be across the board, but the fake one that was sent to me came in what looked like a real Nokia box for a real Nokia N95, with a real Nokia barcode sticker on one end and a '1 Gb MicroSD card included' sticker on the top (that was not included, fyi.) Just because the seller posted a picture of a Nokia box doesn't mean it has a real Nokia. Also, the box that was sent to me was white with 12 squares on it, like below. This doesn't mean that every phone that comes in that particular box is fake, but so far almost every fake one i have seen has come in one of those boxes.

Back of the phone: If you see a Hutchinson 3G logo, RED FLAG.

Also you can spot a fake by the orientation of the Nokia logo.

And the fake doesn't have a working lens cover switch.

Real Nokias come in Plum and Sand for the colors on the back. Not black.

Fake Nokia phones only slide one way, up, to reveal the telephone keypad (left.)
Real Nokia phones slide up as well, but also slide down to reveal media player control buttons (right.)

This does not mean that if you see a picture of a Nokia phone, sliding both ways, that you will get a real Nokia phone. Of course, anyone can download photos like these and post them as their own. Some sellers even steal legitimate-looking pictures from other current or completed listings to make you think you will get a real N95. Of course, this also does not mean that just because a seller lists a stock picture of the phone or the white 12 square box that the phone is fake. You have to use wise judgment.

Some more pictures as a reference (the fake N95):

Nokia Contact Information:

Nokia Head Office
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Nokia Corporate Office - New York 102 Corporate Park Drive 10604 WHITE PLAINS New York USA Tel: +1 914 368 0400
Nokia Asia-Pacific 438B Alexandra Road #07-00 Alexandra Technopark SINGAPORE 119968 Tel. +65 6723 2323 Nokia Corporate Office 6000 Connection Drive Irving, Texas 75039 USA Tel. +1 972 894 5000

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