How do mobile phone resellers here in the Philippines use this IMEI information?
– Get your mobile phone.
– Dial #*06#, the IMEI or serial number will appear in the screen.
– Count the 7th and 8th digit of the IMEI of your mobile phone, start from the left.
This two digits are your clues on where your mobile phone is made of.
If your digits are:
00 – the phone was made from the original factory of the brand of your mobile phone and is considered as the best quality.
01 or 10 – the phone was made from Finland and is considered to have good quality.
08 or 80 – the phone was made from Germany and is considered to have fair quality.
02 or 20 – the phone was made from Emirates and is considered to have a bad quality.
13 or 31 or 03 or 30 – the phone is made from China and is considered to have the worst quality.
If you want to know the quality of your mobile phone, check it now!!!
This rule of finding the location of the factory that made the device is only valid for phones that were made before January 2003. All phones made after this 1 jan 2003 has 00 in these digits.
Wow!!! I am amazed. Thanks for the great tip!!!
Superb
my phone starts with 89 and 88 what’s the meaning of this?
O.o I got 04 as the 7th and the 8th digit.. where is that from?
O.o I got 04 as the 7th and8th digits.. so where is that from??