Looks like xiaomi is adding some pressure on the low end market, where people are a little more feature conscious.
The p20 lite was brilliant my mother owns one and for what it cost it’s a great little device, but the tech content pales compared to the last xiaomi round
I think the low end pressure is applying to xiaomi as well, from Oppo, Ding-Ding, etc...it's really hard to keep up with the cheap phone providers these days!
I think that the over clocking cheat is a bit different if they are honest about and say the phone, when overclocked, are actually capable of this. The DSLR image is not possible in any case.
Unless the goal of cheating the benchmark was to target user's who overclock their phones (honestly, who does this?, like %0.0001?), then I would still call it dishonest.
Shouldn't benchmarks reflect what your delivering to consumers?
Honest related question. Do car manufacturers do this with their car's speed tests? I know you can squeeze another 50+ HP out of a VW Golf for example with a chip and a higher octane fuel, but AFAICT the specs you see on their site and at the dealer don't show this extra HP. (I realize VW is a bad example of a company that doesn't cheat their books!).
While I'd be absolutely certain they both spy on me (for various degrees of "spying"), I trust Google to better safeguard the data it collects about me.
Huawei is more likely to do a poor job of keeping said data to itself, either intentionally (selling it outright) or by getting hacked.
I'm convinced Google wouldn't sell my data - it is immensely more valuable to them if they're the only ones with it. That said, they'd still use it - to target and profile me, and of course I expect them both to share it with the respective governments.
Moreover, if I use Google services through a Huawei phone, they both end up with my data, while if I use a google device at least it's just Google. I'm not enthusiastic about either, but, hey, lesser of two evils.
(For the record I have an iPhone and try to avoid giving Google too much data about me)
Someone made the same comment to me the other day.
I said "Either it's the Americans or the Chinese spying on my, either way I'm fucked". I feel like it's safe to assume that most consumer hardware is backdoored/cracked by one intelligence agency or another.
Do we have proof that's the case with Apple though? Not a fanboy, but I casually remember reading that they weren't willing to sacrifice their security and capitulate to the gov on this point.
will after installing Lineage it's relatively safe, but you are too late to party after bootloader unlock page gone, now it's up to finding friendly customer service representative or giving try to DC unlocker which sometimes work even on phones they officially don't support
There's a million reasons. "Pretend to take a selfie so we can check the lighting." "Let's try a few different poses so the director has some options to choose from for the layout." "Let me take one with my other camera for a wardrobe reference."
Have you never made up a dummy report in HTML just so the designer could check the colors and layout? Do you refuse to work on any prototype that doesn't use live data?
I once saw a Microsoft Cloud poster in a train station that did claim they were curing cancer. I'd rather be the Huawei model than the designer of that poster.
Because they are some of the lowest paid workers in the project. Why should they risk their precarious jobs when higher-paid, and more secure workers are also aware of the deception?
This is an outrage! Next you're going to tell me that the pictures of happy creatives and handsome businesspersons in every service or product website are not actual users who are just so damn happy that they can't stop smiling, but actors/models or even (gasp) stock photos!
Given that Apple set the standard by posting photos that are explicitly labeled as being shot on iPhone, it think it’s totally fine to expect an image with selfie-arm extending into the frame to have actually been shot on the device.
> Photos from Apple's "Shot on iPhone" ads are indeed taken with iPhones, albeit with additional equipment like special lenses attached to the phone, and they've been touched up with professional photo editing software.
> Everything was fine until people took a closer look at the behind-the-scenes photos (which have since been deleted) from the ad shoot posted by Elshamy to her Instagram account.
I doubt it's an accident. It's probably just a PR stunt by huawei, otherwise not many people would even talk about this phone. Unless whoever is runnigng that actress's instagram account is incredibly stupid to not notice that clearly controversial photo: [https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2018/08/bts0.jpg]
Or alternatively the controversy increases Elshamy's profile. Given that the account is either controlled by her, or her agent, I'd say that's the more likely explanation.
I might sound jaded, but: isn't this happening constantly anyway? Usually with just a small bit of "fig-leaf" credibility (like the aforementioned "shot on iPhone" pieces, but especially supertiny illegible disclaimers) - but the effect is the same.
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https://www.phonearena.com/news/Huawei-Ascend-P7-found-to-be...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/8403/examining-huaweis-benchm...
Samsung and others also did it:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-and...
I own the Ascend P7, and my GF is also a Huawei user, and they're good devices. But they feel the need to cheat.
The p20 lite was brilliant my mother owns one and for what it cost it’s a great little device, but the tech content pales compared to the last xiaomi round
Shouldn't benchmarks reflect what your delivering to consumers?
Honest related question. Do car manufacturers do this with their car's speed tests? I know you can squeeze another 50+ HP out of a VW Golf for example with a chip and a higher octane fuel, but AFAICT the specs you see on their site and at the dealer don't show this extra HP. (I realize VW is a bad example of a company that doesn't cheat their books!).
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Huawei is more likely to do a poor job of keeping said data to itself, either intentionally (selling it outright) or by getting hacked.
I'm convinced Google wouldn't sell my data - it is immensely more valuable to them if they're the only ones with it. That said, they'd still use it - to target and profile me, and of course I expect them both to share it with the respective governments.
Moreover, if I use Google services through a Huawei phone, they both end up with my data, while if I use a google device at least it's just Google. I'm not enthusiastic about either, but, hey, lesser of two evils.
(For the record I have an iPhone and try to avoid giving Google too much data about me)
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https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1879850/chinese-most-...
I said "Either it's the Americans or the Chinese spying on my, either way I'm fucked". I feel like it's safe to assume that most consumer hardware is backdoored/cracked by one intelligence agency or another.
There job is to put on a show and do their part, not think about the grander things like deception.
Most claim they just show up for the part.
Why? Their job is making you believe something fake. It's right there in the name of the job: "actor."
Have you never made up a dummy report in HTML just so the designer could check the colors and layout? Do you refuse to work on any prototype that doesn't use live data?
People gotta eat somehow.
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> Photos from Apple's "Shot on iPhone" ads are indeed taken with iPhones, albeit with additional equipment like special lenses attached to the phone, and they've been touched up with professional photo editing software.
Yep, just a standard iPhone here as any regular user would have: https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2017/06/shotoniphonefea...
I doubt it's an accident. It's probably just a PR stunt by huawei, otherwise not many people would even talk about this phone. Unless whoever is runnigng that actress's instagram account is incredibly stupid to not notice that clearly controversial photo: [https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2018/08/bts0.jpg]
https://www.theverge.com/2012/9/5/3294545/nokias-pureview-ad...
[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/nokia-forced-to-apologise-for-fake...
I mean, watch this ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDjGnWO_fG4
Can you spot the "screen image simulated" lines? Would you even have noticed it, had you not been looking for it?