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posted by janrinok on Thursday April 23 2020, @10:21AM   Printer-friendly
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Huawei caught passing off DSLR photos as being taken with smartphones:

Huawei recently launched a photography contest to promote its new flagship P40 Pro, but now it's catching flak for trying to pass off photos taken with a DSLR as ones shot with one of its phones.

Earlier this month, Huawei kicked off a contest for its Next Image community, and a video on Weibo included several high-quality photos and at the end said they were "taken with Huawei smartphones." As South China Morning Post notes, though, Weibo user Jamie-hua found that some of those photos were actually taken with a $3,500 Nikon D850 DSLR camera.

[...] Huawei has since apologized and said that the photos were incorrectly marked due to "an oversight by the editor". The company has also updated its original promo video for the contest to remove the claim that the images were taken with Huawei phones.


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2020, @10:44AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2020, @10:44AM (#985982)

    I know this exact thing happened before.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by FatPhil on Thursday April 23 2020, @10:57AM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday April 23 2020, @10:57AM (#985983) Homepage
    Because on the IRC channel, as soon as that story was submitted to the story queue, I announced in a clear voice that they were just copying the trick Nokia pulled nearly a decade ago with their PureView 920 advert: https://www.theverge.com/2012/9/5/3294545/nokias-pureview-ads-are-fraudulent

    Curiously Nokia and its pureview range were the first to go to insanely high megapixel counts too (claimed 43MPx, IIRC, but I think they're counting every bucket so divide by 4 to map it onto what other companies would claim for the same sensor), so this 50MP again seems like they're just Nokia followers with a 7 year lag.
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    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday April 23 2020, @10:59AM (1 child)

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday April 23 2020, @10:59AM (#985984) Homepage
      Also, what's this (from the huawei write-up): 1/1.28-inch sensor
      That's basically a *2cm* sensor to those who use real units. Where the frick do they have the room for a 2cm sensor in a phone?

      Lies, damn lies, and marketting...
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      • (Score: 2) by Muad'Dave on Thursday April 23 2020, @11:37AM

        by Muad'Dave (1413) on Thursday April 23 2020, @11:37AM (#985987)

        I like your numbers better. I read that as "quantity 1 of 1.28 inch sensors".

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2020, @08:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2020, @08:21PM (#986193)

      And why do you think this is the first time Huawei has done this? Cause it isn't.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Thursday April 23 2020, @11:02AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday April 23 2020, @11:02AM (#985985) Journal
  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday April 23 2020, @10:35PM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday April 23 2020, @10:35PM (#986238)

    Yes, Huawei have form for this.

    I would not be at all surprised if other phone makers do the same thing though.