How China Fake Phones are Dominating the Ghanaian Mobile Market (Samsung Vs. Tecno)

[Olanrewaju Moshood]

Cheap mobile phones that closely resemble high-end globally-recognised devices are highly dominating the Ghanaian mobile market. Kwame Nrumah Circle in Accra, which i always refer to as Ghana Computer Village is the Marketplace of these counterfeit phones (China Fake Phones).

The average Ghanaian doesn’t know what a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor does in a phone, the average man on the street doesn’t really care what nVidia or Adreno GPU means, the average Ghanaian isn’t really concerned about Gorilla glass and believe me, a lot of phone users in Ghana have no idea what a 2GB RAM could do.Average phone users just want to watch videos, chat on BBM/Facebook, use WhatsApp and play music

These people are Tecno’s main target and that is why their products comes with MTK processors, 1GB RAM and other things these people are comfortable with.Samsung is meant to makes premium products with high price tag and sometimes also make affordable products as well but the production of china fake phones is killing the sales of the original ones. 90% of Samsung phones in the Ghanaian mobile market are fake.

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[Kwarteng]

Great post Ola ! Unfortunately, most Ghanaians only care about the aesthetics and are not interested in what goes on under the hood. Substandard components will hurt your user experience . But to say "90% of Samsung phones are fake" ...isn't that a stretch ? To my knowledge, most of these Shenzhen (home of the greatest copycats) guys "model" only premium products

[Archzilon Eshun-Davies]

Please ignore this guy(Olanrewaju Moshood) he gets paid to make propaganda.

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[Olanrewaju Moshood]

lol @Archzilon Eshun-Davies: Ok (That's you view), no hard feelings.

[Achere Buxton]

On the contrary, aside the techo marketing, he raises very valid points. There are a lot of fake phones on the market, not limited to android devices even iPhone has fakes. The problem is the average Ghanaian cannot tell the difference and the prices are a little lower than the original ones. Raising an awareness about this is good because people get swindled a lot.
As I developer, I know how to tell the difference but what about another person who can't tell?
And I think it's better you buy an original techno which is the same price as the fake Samsung product. But if you want a quality phone, go for an original Samsung or HTC. I bought mine at circle and it's original. Lol.

[Edward Pie]

@Achere, you really think you can tell all fake phones apart? You ain't seen nothing yet, lol. I was a victim last month after all my exposure to Android & iOS so I've resolved to do just 3 things :

1. I'll always buy from trusted shops at any price quoted

2. I'll take my PC along to run a basic HelloWorld app on the device before I pay.

3. I'll run away whenever I hear their popular song "original memory card, pendrive, card reader ... promotion"

Some fake phones are sooo close to the original.

[Achere Buxton]

@edward it's very easy to tell. Just boot into recovery. The Chinese phones can't do that. They rather have another thing running there.

[Prince]

There is an alternative solution you can use to protect yourself against the torrents of replica and clone phones. Retrieve the IMEI number from the device using *#06# and check its validity from http://www.imei.info/ 

On Friday, 2 May 2014 12:48:52 UTC, Olanrewaju Moshood wrote:

[gideon makus]

blame those who import them to the country... we are sometimes the cause of our own problems but we blame the high authorities. If they strike and stop these people, they will say they have no jobs and the government is making them suffer. Ghanaian don't like change that will last for long but immediate ...

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