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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.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Thursday April 23 2020, @08:28PM (1 child)
For any smartphone purchase, you should look at the reviews and not the ads/marketing. I've seen AnandTech do pretty good camera testing:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15099/the-huawei-mate-30-pro-review-top-hardware-without-google/7 [anandtech.com]
As for Huawei, it could be banned in your country anyway.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by petecox on Thursday April 23 2020, @11:50PM
No great loss, they alienated themselves to soylent community by removing the option to oem unlock.
If I wanted a Chinese phone supported by LineageOS long after the vendor has abandoned updates, it's either Xiaomi or very few models of Moto.