In terms of percentage spread, Apple smartphones accounted for 29.54% of the fake phones recorded while Samsung accounted for 26.44%. Xiaomi accounted for 9.83% and Honor accounted for 6.10%.

A few things that are common with the cloned smartphones is the presence of a 720p display resolution, as well as MediaTek MT6589 processor bundled with a Mali-400 MP GPU onboard. Although the components are not necessarily fake, they are starkly different from what the OEM included in the original version. Interestingly, China’s tech hubs of  Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Beijing ranked among the top three cities where most of the fake smartphones are used in China.

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Chinese benchmarking outfit Master Lu has released its ranking of top 10 most counterfeited smartphones in 2019. Among them, Samsung and Apple have been counterfeited the most. In terms of proportionality, Samsung phones had a 28.7% share of most faked smartphones while Apple models ranked second with 15.88% respectively.

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In terms of specific models, the Samsung W2018 is ranked as number one most-faked phones, apparently in China. The Samsung W2018 flip phone is one popular model in China and so, this doesn’t come as a surprise. Fake Samsung W2018 were detected 4688 times. Next in line is Apple’s iPhone 8 while the iPhone XS Max is rated as the third most-faked mobile phone. iPhone 8 was detected 4,445 times to be fake while the iPhone XS Max was detected 2,499 times.

The rest of the list is made up of the iPhone X, Samsung W2019, Galaxy S8+, Xiaomi Mi Max, Mi 9, OPPO R11 Plus and finally OnePlus 7 Pro.

On the whole, a total of 6,639,704 smartphones were tested using the Master Lu app. Out of this, 57,790 units of various models were detected to be fake.

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