All,
How to check either the phone is clone or original manufactured by NOKIA,i can confirm you see it…write sms then press *..* is a button to change the character number,english….if it support chinese character it means it’s totally clone…i can guarantee……..NOKIA Corp,doesn’t include chinese character when writing sms…

c – copy
h – heritage from blood
i – idiot / imitators
n – nonsense
e – evil
s – stupid
e – enchant

all above are used in manufacturing product like Nokia N95 8gb, which i have experienced, all chinese are using cycle and then recycle them by using above abbrivation.

Actually, nokia a international company, having their copyright and patents and rights misused by chinses companies, and also mislead the genuine customers.

Nokia has to find out the culprits manufactureres to protect the genuine nokia users.

As i have suffered 8 times value by purchasing Nokia N95-8GB assuming genuine nokia , but found Copied, imitated , idiot box phone.

Genuine customers believe in quality but chinese gives more quantity at kilo rate.

a cheated cusotmer

There was no SIM and the unit included a SIM-adaptor with surface mounted components and 3 jumper wires wrapped round connecting both sides of the PCB. The SIM was supposed to be secured to that with an elastic band (2 spare ones included in the package) and the whole adaptor assembly was connected to the phone’s main PCB with solid core soldered wires.

Then we found it did not even include an internal battery and it just had a PP6 9-volt battery terminal on flyleads.

Still, my client persevered and managed to install both the SIM and the battery to find that it would only dial a single number regardless of what you dialled on the keypad. The call would always connect to a recorded message featuring a random “message of the day” style haiku poem.

I must say on reflection that I am somewhat disappointed and could offer the suppliers of this supposedly authentic unit various suggestions as to which direction their research efforts should take, and which of the features they did include are in fact not in my opinion ‘mission critical’ to the functionality of the unit.

Needless to say the customer was nonplussed and I had to find an alternative source.

The moral of the story is (to quote the fable); never clean your windows with a hard-boiled egg.

i dont know who to blame? the china for making them? the nokia for not doing anything to encounter them? the bastard who sold them? or just me for buying them?

and all the threads, forums & comments on it, is basically useless. because, like me, people only going to check on these threads, forums & comments after its too late, only after they got one of these FAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but i suppose its a lesson for us right.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM………………..

1. Most of them have dual sim, Nokia does not.
2. Have touch screen and stylles, Nokia has only 5800
3. No symbian OS, and no fetures like WLAN, GPS.

If you go to a shop and buy, ensure you test these features working or atleast switch on the phone and check software version, etc.

If you buy through ebay ask seller specific questions like, is GPS and WLAN working, confirmation on OS. And finaly get reply saying this is not fake. Ensure the seller respond through ebay message, so that you can open a dispute and get a refund.