Lies, lies tell me sweet little lies... Huawei

Tell a lie repeatedly and it will become truth. This is the philosophy after which many world leaders, and not only, dictated their lives and led those around them. One of the leaders in the smartphone market, Huawei, for years has been misleading clients in its ads ahead of launching new flagship smartphones in terms of the cameras they will come equipped with and their performance and pic quality of course.

Prior to launching Huawei's P9, they "could not help themselves" not to use pictures taken with a DSLR and advertising them as the new Leica dual camera model products. The Canon EOS 5D Mark III worth $ 4,500 was the hero that took the hard work for P9 actually. Last year Nova 3 also "performed" with photos taken by a DSLR and this year the new P30 that will be launched shortly keeps the tradition alive by borrowing professional pictures from specialized websites.

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The main selling feature and also the Achilles heel of the new Huawei P30 will of course be a camera that seems to have a periscope sensor with optical zoom of at least 5X which might not be be a lie in terms of pure specs. Lies, however, are the samples that the Chinese producer posted on Weibo, the Chinese twitter. It was once again caught guarded by tech geeks. Two of the three pictures uploaded online and presented as "the new P30 works of art" are actually bought or stolen pictures ... one of them being a ten-year photo of an erupting volcano.

What they all have in common is the phenomenal optical zoom that already makes you think about pre-ordering such a smartphone, but what differentiates them is the devices with which they were made. DSLR for each and every one of them but of course different models. One of them was bought and is still on the getty images website and the second one was "borrowed" from a professional photographer's blog. The author for the third one has not yet been found but it does not matter that much anymore when you know you have been lied so many times.

Huawei is definitely not the only smartphone maker that uses to such misleading advertisements, but it seems to have been "the most caught" doing that. However, it doesn't seem to at least try quitting in misleading customers towards the quality of the pics resulted from their future launched devices. Although it is a cheater and it is an old one Huawei is still listed as the second smartphone manufacturer in the world and well known for...good cameras, but are they that good. What do you think about such marketing techniques should they be punishable by law?

Source of inspiration for the article: https://www.gsmarena.com/no_these_photos_werent_taken_with_the_huawei_p30-news-35950.php

Thanks for attention and have a great day!
Adrian