iWish: I bought a knockoff iPhone 12 PRO MAX from WISH!... ($170 i12 Pro) Review & Teardown

[@SMOOREZ]

Please don't buy this (or practically anything off Wish for that matter). This is definitely not worth it. I buy these so you don't have to. TIMESTAMPS: Intro: 0:00 Details & Listing: 0:39 Unboxing: 4:43 The Device: 7:22 Power On and quick look: 10:05 Settings and Features: 11:18 Display & Mobile Networks: 14:54 Quick App Showcase: 16:13 The Camera: 17:39 Camera Test: 18:14 Camera After Thoughts: 20:33 Battery & Browser Test: 21:22 KZbin Test: 22:39 Audio Test: 23:56 Gaming Test: 25:41 Geekbench: 29:24 Checking the specs: 31:02 Discount JerryRigEverything Teardown: 33:32 Bend Test & Specs: 38:01 Conclusion: 38:51 Finishing touches: 41:16 Outro: 42:15 CPU & System Apps are in the description above! Be good people!

[@RuviaPawz]

Hi smoorez

[@KopyKat81]

When do you think you can get the Poco x3 for review? I heard it has a 120hz display.

[@TheJunky228]

even though I watch it all through, I appreciate the timestamps as well as making those youtube chapter things in the video

[@richardcutts196]

Actually most of the non tech items on Wish aren't too bad, except for the shipping fee.

[@adamcorns2438]

Is it actually legal to advertise and sell these obvious fakes??? Even if it's not to copy genuine phones surely it can't be legal to advertise false specs that has to be fraud surely? Please someone answer this as I'm baffled how these things can be sold as advertised?

[@gregmerter4083]

2g + 3g = 5g is their logic.

[@MARS-eb8pt]

You know that actually it right? Every scammer is like that.

[@xXRealXx]

what about the 4g tho?

[@GTAandApplechannel]

@@xXRealXx 2g + 2g = 4g

[@xXRealXx]

@@GTAandApplechannel *impressive logic*

[@GTAandApplechannel]

@@xXRealXx *LOgIC*

[@budgetking2591]

Wow it even has the new Apple simcard format, Doubie, i'm interested now.

[@SMOOREZ]

Trademarked for the iPhone 13 range. Apple are keeping tabs :)

[@puffnoobtv]

you know that a lot of phones have double sim, its not an apple thing

[@budgetking2591]

@@puffnoobtv We are talking about Doubie here, a whole different ball game.

[@shalala4571]

@@budgetking2591 what is the difference?

[@ssunlimited9]

@@budgetking2591 apple fanboy?

[@Jynxx_13]

Iphone that states "Android is Starting" LOL

[@ssunlimited9]

Android: more than apple

[@richardhockey8442]

The super rare Apple iPhone 12 Pro Android edition

[@deletdis6173]

*ching Chen hanji intensifies*

[@kriss3d]

How do they justify that even? I mean, do they expect customers to be that stupid?.

[@snxwmc330]

@@kriss3d well clearly cuz people buy that shit

[@brutus3631]

this man is like dankpods speaking in lowercase and i love it

[@Wolfganger]

Fr

[@xtacx08]

5:31 It reads "Enjoy your knockoff."

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

Really? Or is it a joke

[@shanethrelfall416]

@@HeortirtheWoodwarden seriously? 😂😂

[@harshvithlani9399]

Is that a joke?

[@KamiToska]

It says i12 pro max gold. LMAO

[@Brickbuilder128]

I LAUGHED SO HARD AT THIS LMFAOO

[@beardedentity]

You know what... The camera actually looks pretty good for a cheap device.

[@gerrard1144]

the redmi note 10s offers better camera for around the same price lol

[@SoftBlade7]

@@gerrard1144 as a Redmi user I would say it's true ↗️↗️

[@b.cfilms1570]

It’s honestly a great little backup device. I don’t regret purchasing. Crazy good prices on eBay

[@genshinshenanigans7027]

@@gerrard1144 and just better phones overall

[@DRTechTV]

I must say, I really like editing while watching smoorez, very chill and laid back video with good comedy every once and a while, keep at it smoorez ✌️

[@SonnyB273]

How dare you, not all items from wish are rubbish, most don't even turn up 😂👌

[@sukunaryoumen2834]

Yeah mother board for 1 euro and it came instead of that some tiny balls who grow in water 😂😂😂😂

[@nsp6590]

I've been trying to understand how this works since the moment I heard of Wish and its dreadful quality as a sales platform two years ago. This is literally false advertising. By quite a big margin as well. How is this legal? How is Wish allowed to stay up and running? I really don't understand.

[@BrunoMacedoPhotos]

INSERT *TRUMP LIPS SAYING "CHINA"

[@heinuchung8680]

They are not responsible they only provide a marketplace for sellers but are not responsible for the sellers wares.

[@dylanc2806]

Its not legal in the US. wish is based in china...

[@stellviahohenheim]

In China money is God because communism doesn't let people believe in anything else

[@kylercroci2278]

China doesn’t have the same copyright laws as other countries so they can completely copy something and not get sued being you but wish stuff straight from china the laws don’t apply to they’re products

[@crystalthewolf8945]

The thing that you think is a fingerprint sensor is actually the "5G antenna" that the iPhone 12 has, basically it copied the aluminum frame pretty much perfectly.

[@stefanandrejevic2570]

They couldn't even modify the OS to look like iOS

[@alansilvero]

it's weird they don't try to hide better the fact that is just android (with some icon packs etc..) hell, there are available launchers on the play store for that.

[@gotsm9959]

@@alansilveroIf I were china I would put android 2.3 that way it would seem realty fast .

[@GTAandApplechannel]

@@gotsm9959 Android 2.3 is laggy as hell either that or that's just my experience with Android 2.3 on a 2009 hardware

[@gotsm9959]

@@GTAandApplechannel Well you need software from 2009 like click bait youtube videos full of advertising.

[@GTAandApplechannel]

@@gotsm9959 ok

[@braders5192]

When you realize you can get a better Android phone from samsung for a lower price tag

[@lillexus5589]

Scrap the Samsung part, and you sre good to go.

[@MLWJ1993]

@@lillexus5589 not really necessary, even Samsung got something better on offer for a similar price here. In fact, even has an OLED display in that price range 😅

[@danielvanced5526]

@The Real Joe Biden that's interesting, most phones in Europe don't support VoLTE unless it's bought from the network. That means many phone won't work for calls travelling abroad.

[@damienhartley1832]

@@MLWJ1993 You kids are so silly with playground arguments but as your online Daddy I will tell you the secret tec spec that defeats all which is (Business Enterprise) as Steve Balmer puts it Developers! Developers! Developers! . Basically the lowest cost computer that you can build a business in form of enterprise is the words greatest super computer. When it comes y fake iPhone unfortunately its unless for anything and cannot run a business not even a lemonade stand because it is programmed to decive and will do this at the most dependable time crashing before you can bid on that start up company and you will be someone else's pawn.

[@MLWJ1993]

@@damienhartley1832 First learn at least basic english, before calling anyone "kid"? Your whole wall of text is incomprehensible... 🤔

[@Dark.Shingo]

Me: Hahahaha, another one of those silly pho- *Looks at price* Me: Whaaaaaaaaat?!?!?

[@budgetking2591]

what do you mean with that

[@reallyryan_]

@@budgetking2591 he's shocked at how much they charge...

[@yeshuayeeyee7430]

Lol broke boi

[@whersdaspaghet2678]

@@yeshuayeeyee7430 get lost, LIL TAY

[@tweeleaf]

@@yeshuayeeyee7430 you’re not richer anyway, so don’t judge people that are better than you. You wouldn’t buy a clearly fake phone for so many ch would you?

[@themixgenius1993]

it's obviously an iPhone 12 knockoff, if the *charger is included* in the box, and the box is thicker than the original.. lmao

[@WheeledHamster]

And headsets.

[@toastthetoast2122]

This is really the future with its 32 million rear HD cameras

[@lds9312]

Love this man. Your humor, your voice love it. The fact you use your money to get these items to spare others from wasting their own is awesome. If anyone going to give this kind of money for this junk you might as well go legit and get the real thing. Oh, my goodness what a waste of your hard earned money for this sh.... Run Forest, Run.

[@branxxstorm]

That music... LA Noire hits me like a train just in the nostalgia 😣🥺

[@letomi]

I'm glad KZbin reccomended me this, I subbed, decent material here man, keep it up :D

[@snowkracker]

There is most likely some old lady somewhere who thinks she actually got a good deal on an iPhone 👵🏼 📱

[@dodger6322]

Yeah really makes me sad

[@xxXxXxGxXxXxx]

@@dodger6322 To be fair, $200 is a good deal for this. 15 years ago I prayed for this technology, now this is affordable for simple people. I'm just not a fan of the lies posts on the specs and misleading people.

[@dodger6322]

@@xxXxXxGxXxXxx you can get way better options for $200

[@lala4461]

Can we not age shame women. Your comment is condescending.

[@user-bt1wr8oy3x]

@@lala4461 what? 😂 😂 😂

[@Gunzee]

For $170 you can buy a really good new phone. For a little extra you can get a used high spec one. The realme x50 5g for £210-220 or the oppo find X2 lite for £260 or Reno 2 for the same price. I spent more than I should have £300 and got a Red magic 5G, SD 865 and 140 Hz screen. Even top tier phone's don't have screens that fast. There's absolutely no need to buy fakes.

[@enemyenergyd3386]

Hello. On SIM slot 1 you will not get reception, because the phone's IMEI code is invalid and the mobile carrier won't let you to register on their network. (I checked the IMEI codes on internet out of curiosity, and the IMEI 1 is invalid)

[@AraiDigital]

Interesting, so they even sold a technically incomplete phone. lol.

[@Phil_Jumaa]

I literally watched the whole video.... Good job Smoorez!

[@robertusthemac]

Very decent camera, these clones are actually getting good

[@user-jg78]

As long as they don't replace flagships, impossible.

[@AutumnWind92]

for that price it's trash

[@nogo7277]

welcome devices aren't going anywhere close to being good. There are good budget no name devices but deff not any of those.

[@SMOOREZ]

As I said during the conclusion, I reviewed the Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 for $150 USD and that was infinitely better than any of these clones.

[@AutumnWind92]

@@SMOOREZ in countries where huawei is available you can get huawei p40 lite for less than 200$. 6gb of ram,128gb,quad cam etc. But yes the Xiaomi is also good.

[@mornebezuidenhout3003]

Wish I saw this 4 months ago. I bought the i12 Max. It wont even run many current Play store apps. I messed around and screwed up the firmware. Now it's TOTALLY useless other than a funky purple paperweight.

[@robertm20]

4:32 Ah yes, truly an iphone 12 pro max running android 10

[@loveplane737]

that's how my phone works

[@THEWHITEKNIGHT]

Buying an iPhone from wish turning it on.. ... ... .... "Android is starting" Me: Wait, What?

[@Random_4400]

Your videos always make my day! I absolutely love the wish clones!

[@fungo6631]

Even my dinosaur HTC Desire 816 can do 720p60 just fine, maybe even 1080p60. That's a phone from 2016.

[@wiredmind]

The camera was pretty good for one of these knockoffs actually.

[@wiredmind]

@Erick Phoenix Yeah it's obviously not worth it but it's less terrible than they usually are.

[@cynaptyc]

Just found you channel and had to sub! Love the "reading" of the ad and the level of sarcasm! Awesome content here!

[@roxcyn]

Welcome!

[@MarshallTJones-fn4uj]

It looks like a 3 yr. old child put that phone together with silly putty, everything just "pops" off😂😂😂😂

[@mr.sexyman123]

To be fair, the sweat shop it was made in probably hired an actual 3 year old to make it

[@suprlite]

BS. It actually looks quite good. And functionwise it's just about what you'd expect for the price.

[@MarshallTJones-fn4uj]

@@suprlite sure

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

3:30 it plays “what a fool believes” when you open the card tray

[@Cosmetic_Astro]

there is a reason jerryRigEverything does tear downs because he has to show the world that the three cameras in the pro max/ pro are real and if you have a iphone that’s real or a real samsung your lucky to be alive and have a phone

[@Minicraftiano]

37:24 Thats an imitation of the "5G mmW" antenna from the iPhone 12.

[@rmendez011]

mmWave* And it's an imitation of the U.S. iPhone 12 series and 13 series, no other country gets mmWave on their iPhones.

[@Techo.41]

I saw an ad in the KZbin ads thing and its the same device from alibaba and bruhhhh, it shows 16 cameras in the back XD

[@jakedrake3660]

those photos are actually pretty good!!!! maybe not the video quality but if you want a phone with a decent camera and looks like an iphone this is pretty good!!!

[@NathanChisholm041]

I love Rubix cube tech! I don't leave home without it!!

[@THEWHITEKNIGHT]

friends: cool phone you have there, what's its name? Me: QuadCamera

[@wanjohi]

i like this guy, he's dangerously funny... when he shouldn't

[@jcrewkidd]

Face is in parentheses because some people, no matter how much light there is, will not be recognized by the camera. At least that is my guess.

[@yeshuayeeyee7430]

Homie those was quotation marks

[@Richoffdiors]

Lol a wish ad came on before this

[@OMGItzSlickerz]

I would love to see someone get one of these phones , root it and then fully customize it with customs roms etc and see if they can make it into a usable device

[@eepyeri]

good luck doing that with 16gb of internal storage

[@adhesive6320]

me too

[@xentaatnex8261]

I laughed when I saw Lebron James during the 2020 finals with Wish as a sponsor on his jersey.

[@sopskhuman7907]

Good buy, iphone 12 that comes with a charger and a headphone

[@detenatron.3608]

The greatest phone cross over mashup.

[@Myjacob99]

The scratching with the box cutter always makes my skin crawl

[@Fainthen]

At that price,there's some really good entry level phones from One plus, Nokia, Xiaomi and Motorola that people should get instead or even a older flagship phone.

[@ivankirola2707]

Huawei is also great

[@Fainthen]

@@ivankirola2707 Well if you don't use any Google services, or want to potentially risk losing your data to some random man in the middle service or use a work around for everything Google service related.

[@playgame4live137]

Imagine ordering a Iphone 12 on Wish and getting a Iphone 4

[@uglify1325]

*5c

[@kowalagt4380]

Found this phone on eBay for $117USD. Glad I found your video the same day, I thought it was a scam, I was right!

[@macoxynormous8569]

What an absolute gamer using big division for testing

[@matthewyevtushenko5282]

You could actually get a decent android phone for that price

[@lala4461]

I work for a company that contracts out for Apple repairing phones under warranty. This is actually from a legit brand called Dilwe. When customers send them by mail to the repair center directly, you'd be surprised how often the factory actually sends them back to us to return to a customer- repaired and made " Apple new" again. I'm not sure if the techs are in a hurry or how it gets past them. Truth be told they're not awful phones. They even have a 12 Pro mini just like Apple. You can find them on Amazon for cheaper than Wish. Just search Dilwe. There's tons of Apple knock offs on Amazon that are actually really good Androids for around $100. The Doogee N30 is one of them. Google the comparison of iPhone 12 and a Doogee N30 that costs 100 bucks on Amazon. The specs are almost identical. The ratings are also close. And particular phone looks expensive. Lol

[@bishopworks3203]

6:45 Looks like they may have used double shot molding for the lettering, which is actually quite a high quality type of printing. Maybe the case is bought from some mass production plant, but the internals are just cheap garbage. Strange they decided to spend more on the casing than the internals.

[@Hana.Behl-Lecter]

I actually kinda think the fake looks better as far as the color and finish. For little bits and bobs I've had really good luck with wish as long as I read reviews, but I'd definitely never buy any tech or spend more than like $10.

[@thewitteringsandareawestsu5901]

I agree, I think the finish and colour is what's called gold plating a turd.

[@Juschillin059]

I got the iPhone 12 currently and I was shocked when I seen this pos to my ACTUAL iPhone 12 ✋ 😭

[@roxannedaily7685]

I truly appreciate your humor you actually gave me quite a few chuckles 😁 it’s very nice of you to make such a helpful video . Thankyou. CHEERS ❣️❣️

[@uglify1325]

Youre a bot.

[@pesokpesok]

please read more descriptions from wish or similar in engrish. havent laughed like this in a while- you sir have a perfect comedic delivery. looking forward to you reading and discussing more engrish!!!

[@eepmeep8550]

The channel Abroad in Japan has lots of videos dedicated to quality engrish.

[@zaptowee6625]

I made the thumbnail background of this video, "thief minimalist". You're welcome ;)

[@mattalewis13]

iPhone 11 Pro Max: i have 3 cameras, beat that! Fake iPhone 12: *32 million*

[@johnsteuerwald3640]

I bought the same lesser version of this phone, and I broke by maxing out the ram, and rom. It's now stuck in an endless restart loop. I just wanted to know what I was getting. Wish I had seen your video first, lol.

[@TingRegisVlog]

For i12 pro max , how to make it dual screen display?

[@Dragonblaster1]

For shits and giggles, I bought a supposed Citizen Promaster Blue Angels Chronograph watch from Wish. It is an out-and-out fake. They used the Citizen name and logo, had the "World Chronograph 200m Blue Angels," "Radio Controlled" and the same dial layout. However, the sub-dial surrounds on the genuine article (I have one) are held in with tiny screws, whereas on the fake they are plainly glued on with little indents mimicking where the screws would have been. They have replaced the Eco-Drive legend (the watch charges through light) with "Quartz". To be honest, it's no good even as a cheap watch It runs and stops, the buttons don't do anything, the date change is erratic, and it doesn't even keep time like a normal quartz watch does, let alone one that supposedly synchs daily with atomic clocks, and should permanently be correct to the second. It's as if they put all the effort into getting the watch to look similar, and then took revenge by borking even the cheap quartz movement.

[@seankkg]

Here's our iPhone, let's talk about the Android resource scheduling.

[@Itory1337]

The music is so.... good, much better than the phone :)

[@ishc3ice]

If the metal frame was a little better, I would buy this and upgrade the guts to something better

[@IlBiggo]

Buys a $170 iPhone on Wish: "Wish is garbage!" Buys a $50 PC from a white van in NY: "New York is garbage!"

[@izaicslinux6961]

I lolled at the "Welcome" joke :D

[@adriancadillo3081]

I don't get the welcome joke can anyone explain?

[@MuffledSword]

The boot screen typically shows the name of the manufacturer, but cheap knockoffs like this one say "welcome" instead.

[@elishevafreely3206]

Just a heads up from a Minecraft player. The next update of Minecraft is not going to includes older devices, so once Minecraft 17.0 comes out, all those wish devices may not even be able to play it at all. I just wanted to let you know just in case you do another one of these next year and Minecraft doesn't work at all.

[@ScottReynolds003]

The new Android Iphone 12 max pro. You found a true gem

[@verlax8956]

"There are 4 cameras but only 1 of them works" *there is an impostor among us*

[@TIMETECH07]

Comment here to help me get back here once the 12 is Revealed

[@durhamexplorers282]

Ok

[@TIMETECH07]

@@durhamexplorers282 thanks

[@TIMETECH07]

@Zingy 1925 wow.. thanks! That look totally different than what we see.. this WISH trash still is trash 😂

[@artsy_marcypan]

Commenting here

[@shawnwitchey4]

I just got an ad for a hat that protects you from 5g

[@vplutox1111]

That music is L.A. Noire rightt? 18:15

[@jonr9467]

Definitely

[@themidnightclubinc.7663]

This is the upgraded version of the iPhone 12, which includes the charger. Limited Edition.

[@witamtuwojtlo]

this phone actually feels quite good for a wish phone

[@derbagger22]

I signed onto Wish and got a watch for free. I paid 1$ for shipping. It was a toy watch that had printed, fake dials for the chronograph. And had a cheap quartz movement. It was shipped from Kyrgyzstan. I didn't give it away to any kids I knew. I was afraid it has some locator chip in it. I threw it in the trash of a rest stop far away from my house, lol.

[@yafilmDOTcom]

You should test that internal SD card slot to see if it works. (If it doesn't recognize the micro sd card, you might need to format the SD card as FAT32 instead of exFAT if it does not recognize it, this could happen if the sd card is too large for the device to recognize using exFAT)

[@BeholdThePaleHorse]

Ayyy same DOOM wallpaper Im rockin!

[@andrewkamoha4666]

11:18 "Setting and Features" Is it unlock? Can you install your own OS during boot?

[@MinkSquared]

I lost it at 32 million rear cameras with Rubik's cube technology

[@zachisaacs6278]

Me: mom I want an iPhone 12 Mom: we have one at home The iPhone at home:

[@jasonforroblox5767]

U said ate.

[@zachisaacs6278]

@@jasonforroblox5767 thanks, I didn't see that :)

[@brandonx8292]

“Doubie” SIM card?! IM IN!

[@juilleholland5792]

I got one and it appears to not have a section to put a sim card !!??

[@wyterabitt2149]

I have an ultra cheap Xiaomi, think it cost slightly less that this due to being a year old model. It has a mid range snapdragon that handles pretty much anything, 4GB RAM, 64GB storage, a really good 1080p IPS, fingerprint reader, a decent if basic camera, and came with Android 9 and has since updated to 10. It has its downsides but is infinitely better than this wish phone. I don't understand why people take risks on these things from wish etc, it's not like there aren't really good options.

[@dexstex]

11:00 Not 6 or 7 IT IS FROM KIKKAT (4) AND LOLLI (5) and the icon is from marshmellow

[@notsoawesomeone]

Yeah its obviously 5

[@MuffledSword]

Quick settings looks exactly like that on my old Marshmallow device. That look debuted in Lollipop, and was still used in Marshmallow which this device seems to be running. Some of the icons on the home screen look older because they're AOSP apps that haven't been updated in ages.

[@MattiDeP]

At least it come with a charger and earphones

[@joelasuedois8980]

I must say I enjoy watching your videos and your humor is awesome. I hope that you get your Wish granted and find a product worth buying, but hey I doubt it! 😳⁉️

[@JzE_3d]

fun fact: the knockoff has way more battery than the actual original iphone, and comes with the charger

[@TingFeng77]

Except that knock off charger will not deliver the power it says it will do Also, there's a change of it killing you, the device or your house. Check out DiodeGoneWild's look on random chargers

[@therealthatcatstabe360]

Compared to my LG Stylo 6, the benchmark scores are actually somewhat better, but thats it

[@bluemicrobe7744]

18.35 You bought a scam phone and You’ve been Gnomed!

[@heww3960]

If you buy from wish/aliexpres etc, then ofc you shall stay away from branded tech stuff. But there is still alot of unique things that is definitely worth a buy. Like their belts, that has a lock mechanism that is 1000s better than any belt that you find among mainstream brands.

[@ruzuu19]

I really Tought that the Photos from the back Camera were pretty good, and then the Video pulled in 🥲😂

[@roxcyn]

Yes, you taught me not to rely on Wish!

[@legendarymothasthomastengt6861]

When you look on wish at iPhone i12 max pro it looks nice but different systems

[@ricc_star7939]

LMAO I GOT A WISH AD IN THIS VIDEO

[@everythingvideos24]

I’m watching this on my IPhone 12 Pro Max right now.

[@amvymavy]

Atleast it got a charger in da box

[@dr_agnostic5587]

You could totally put a custom launcher on that phone and complete the illusion

[@ThatOneGirlThatPlays]

it says Android on the back. cue "Curb Your Enthusiasm" credits theme song.