A man was left stunned after he unboxed the two refurbished iPhones he had order from Temu.
The website gets a bad rap, with a lot of negative reviews arguing that the quality of products tends to be poor and cheap.
However, one man couldn’t believe it when the website started offering refurbished smartphones from Apple.
Posting the review onto YouTube, the channel Phone Repair Guru revealed what was actually hiding inside the Temu box.
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To his shock, the content creator unboxed the devices on camera and found them to be two iPhone 14 Pros in perfect condition, with no visible signs of any internal part replacements.
Testing both of the phones’ battery health, the first one turned out to have a capacity of 80% and the other sat at 83%.
According to Apple, when a device drops below 80% battery capacity then a battery replacement may be recommended to avoid a drop in performance.
To the Phone Repair Guru’s shock, the phones didn’t appear to have water damage, describing them both as being ‘in almost perfect condition’.
However, the phones hadn’t come cheap as each device had set him back by $615, which he noted is double the price for the same model on the used market.
The YouTuber said: “I still cannot recommend buying phones from Temu. The amount of fake iPhones on Temu is kind of ridiculous.”
Many people took to the YouTube comment section to share their own reactions to the video, with one user writing: “Kinda crazy that you can now say to someone that you got an iPhone from Temu and they might actually just take you seriously.”
Another said: “I saw temu and iPhone and was expecting it to be bad. That’s pretty surprising even if it is a refurbisher.”
A third person joked: “Plot twist: Temu saw it was Phone Repair Guru ordering these phones, so they cherry-picked the best refurbished phone in the bin.”
And a fourth added: “The phones aren’t refurbished. They’re just diagnosed and cleaned up. Many places buy phones from the Apple Trade-In program, then sell them as refurbished without actually refurbishing them.”
In other news, one woman conducted an experiment on her iPhone’s battery health where she only charged her device to 80% for an entire year.
She shared her finding in a post on MacRumors, where she explained that the test was done in order to test the ‘limits on battery longevity’.