Consumers warned against fake Nokia N95s

4 Apr 2008 | 12:57 BST

By Tony Dennis

COPIES OF Nokia's successful N95 cameraphone have emerged with several purporting to be the latest (8GB) version of the handset.

One of the first counterfeit versions of the N95 to surface was being sold on Ebay by Gapcodist. He seems to be genuinely under the impression that he was selling the 'Asian' version of the N95.

One of the biggest clues to this handset being a fake is that it actually has a touchscreen interface.

A video of Gapcodist selling the counterfeit Nokia has been posted on Youtube here.

A more impressive video outlining the differences between the imitation Nokia N95s – which are believed to be originating in China - has been posted here.

The rip-off wouldn't be so obvious save for the fact that most of the desirable features of the N95 are missing as soon as you get it out of the fake packaging.

The differences include the fact that the camera is usually only 1.3 Megapixels or maybe two megapixels instead of the genuine five megapixels.

The GPS capability is also missing as is the Wi-fi capability and best-of-all, it's not even got the Symbian OS. Oh, and there's no 8 GB of storage.

But they do look very much like the originals, physically.

So if anybody offers you an N95 8GB for a lot less than the £370 a genine one should cost, don't buy until you can have a good look at it. µ

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