This “iPhone 17 Pro Max” Is Actually an Android Tablet…
At first glance, this thing looks ridiculous.
The listing calls it an “iPad 17 Pro Max,” which already makes absolutely no sense, and somehow it’s trying to look like an iPhone, an iPad, and a Samsung tablet all at the same time.
And the specs they advertise are honestly insane for an $100 tablet:
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
24GB RAM
2TB storage
20,000mAh battery
Android 16
5G
Dual SIM support
Which immediately tells you something is not adding up. A real Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 tablet alone would cost several times more than this entire device.
But honestly? What shocked me most was not even the fake design.
It was the stuff inside the box.
The Accessories Are Completely Random
Instead of giving you the usual cheap charger and cable, this thing came with one of the weirdest accessory bundles I’ve seen in a while.
Inside the box, there was:
And then sitting beside all of that… a massive kitchen knife for scale.
The whole experience feels less like opening a real tech product and more like somebody threw random accessories into a box and hoped nobody would question it. Still, for around $100, they at least tried to make it feel like you were getting a “complete package.”
It Immediately Reveals Itself as Fake
The second this thing boots up, the illusion disappears.
There’s a giant Android logo during startup, which already ruins the entire fake Apple branding. But once you reach the home screen, you can tell they definitely tried copying Apple’s style a little bit.
The icons, layout, and animations all feel like somebody looked at iPadOS for five minutes and recreated it from memory.
Surprisingly though, it wasn’t unusably slow.
That honestly caught me off guard. Usually these fake devices struggle to even open apps properly, but this one was at least somewhat usable.
The Spec Sheet Is Pure Fantasy
This is where things completely fall apart.
The marketing graphics claim this thing has flagship specs across the board, but literally none of it feels believable once you actually use the device.
According to the listing, this tablet supposedly has:
But in reality, it behaves like a super budget Android tablet trying its hardest to cosplay as a flagship. Even the promotional text feels completely AI-generated.
One of the ads literally says: “The probability of fatigue and collapse helps you get red envelopes faster.”
I genuinely have no idea what that means.
The Cameras Are Horrendous
The biggest disappointment was definitely the cameras.
I expected them to be bad. I did not expect them to be this bad.
The photos looked soft, blurry, heavily processed, and somehow worse than phones from over a decade ago. The fake AI camera marketing on the listing makes it even funnier because there is absolutely no “AI magic” happening here.
It genuinely feels like the cheapest camera sensor they could possibly source.
Final Thoughts
Weirdly, this thing is not completely terrible. For under $100, it actually works decently as a basic media tablet. It plays videos, opens apps, and feels less laggy than I expected.
The biggest issue is the fake marketing. The listing throws around insane specs like “24GB RAM” and “Snapdragon 8 Gen 3” that are obviously nowhere close to reality.
Still, I kind of respect how ridiculously overconfident this thing is.
Now the real question is: should I tear it down?
See you in the next article!
