Android Enjoyed - Dodgy purchase? Microsoft 950

Hi All

I purchased a Microsoft Lumia 950 from them recently at a price considerably cheaper than local stores ($398 though its now down to $354, Harvey's are $699).

The phone looks and works reasonable, however when I plugged it into a Continuum dock I noticed there was lag on the external monitor, which suprised me for something that Microsoft tout as their flagship phone and feature.

I checked the phone specs in the about section of the phone, 3GB ram as advertised. However as I was suspicious and of course this its easy enough to modify the reported ram (per the USB stick scams that go on) so I downloaded a few apps that check the memory and thy are reporting 2GB ram. I'm not sure though that it could be just a limitation of these apps (some 2GB FAT limit or 32 bit limit something), but I'm leaning toward being scammed.

Anyone got any experience, insight? Real pain in the ass if so.

Constructive help only please. No sledging about going for something too good to be true which is clearly what it appears to be now comparing the prices to local, I didn't really look at what bricks and mortars stores were selling it for, just found cheapest online.

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Comments

  • Bring to the local stores and compare the phone side by side, built, screen quality etc.

    Never heard about faking ram on the phone, memory card fake capacity yes Easy to manipulate.

    Maybe yours is not local stock and has different model number thus different specs? Happen with Android phone not sure about Microsoft phone.

    And yes android enjoyed is doggy.

  • +1

    Don't get concerned. The apps you are using are not reporting RAM accurately it is a known limitation of old apps
    If you enable dev mode and open the performance monitor you will see accurate RAM, likely showing 2.5GB useable from what I have read.

    Why would anyone go to the trouble of making a fake 950?!

  • Faking the RAM capacity (at the hardware/OS level) would lead to horrific crashes every time you went over the true RAM capacity.

    So unless the phone goes absolutely crazy when you run the RAM stress-test app, I think it's got the real 3GB inside.

    It is of course possible to hack the about screen such that it lies, but I assume there are OS signatures and such that make this also unlikely.

  • Half the price of Harveys though how is this even possible, and if possible then how is it ethical of MS for Australian retail.

  • I bought a phone from them, no issues. Most users' complaints with these guys is not having stock and they not communicating that and delaying orders.

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