Canada man buys a fake iPhone 17 Pro Max and is left stunned at what turns up

Nowadays, you need to cough up some serious cash for the latest advancement in tech – but if you don’t have $1000+ to drop on a new device, how about a fake iPhone 17 Pro Max?

Apple’s latest wave of iPhones is being slated as the biggest step up the brand has made in recent memory.

With the iPhone 17 Pro Max spearheading the fleet at $1,200, though, it might be a few years before most of us get our hands on it.

The fake market is capitalizing on this, producing cheaper mock-ups, and this Canadian YouTuber has now managed to get his hands on the latest knock-off.

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Fake iPhone 17 Pro Max arrives with a better battery than the real deal

While the Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max has kicked things up a notch, competitors immediately went on the offensive with cheaper alternatives that promised few differences.

This also spurred another wave of fake iPhone products, as people tried to offer big savings.

However, these knock-offs have glaring flaws, and YouTuber Phone Repair Guru has been pointing them out.

In his latest upload, he unboxed the latest fake iPhone 17 Pro Max, and his interest was immediately piqued.

Not by a flaw, though.

In fact, the fake iPhone actually had a bigger battery than the improved iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Bigger doesn’t always mean better, though.

The tech guru revealed that this battery won’t last, unlike the Apple product, which has been refined for heavy usage.

Then, the rest of the flaws followed.

But here’s why you shouldn’t buy it

The fake iPhone 17 Pro Max was quite well-built, but its differences were obvious when it was up and running.

The decreased performance of the LCD screen was nothing on Apple OLED technology, while the camera was a massive let-down, and the App Store needed a complicated workaround to download external software.

When testing out the performance on Genshin Impact, the YouTuber was left aghast at the slow and glitchy video quality and was left severely unimpressed.

“You do not want it,” he declared.

“This thing is slow and absolutely not worth the price people sell them for. It exists for one purpose, and that’s scamming people. So, beware of these devices.

The fake products have become increasingly better, in terms of appearance, but the quality is much worse, and that’s why they are so cheap.

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