Huawei got caught passing off this professional image as a photo taken with its new flagship phone
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Huawei got caught passing off a professional image as a photo taken with its new flagship phone.
Huawei's phones are known for their cameras, and a Huawei exec ramped up the hype for its upcoming flagship smartphone, the P30, earlier this month by confirming the phone will possess a "super-zoom" periscope camera.One shot of an erupting volcano was from Getty Images, and taken on a DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera.
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Huawei's promotional image (left) next to the original image.
The Verge reports that once the images' origins were revealed online, Huawei added disclaimers.
This isn't the first time Huawei has been caught passing off photographs taken on a camera as taken on a phone.In 2018, a behind-the-scenes photo from a Huawei Nova 3 ad revealed it had been shot on a DSLR camera. In July 2016, it was revealed that a promotional image purportedly taken on a Huawei P9 was taken on a camera worth $4,500.Huawei did not immediately reply to Business Insider for comment. The P30 is due to be unveiled in Paris on March 26.
The stories of "fake" photos come at a delicate time for the Chinese company, which is trying to convince Western countries that it is not used as a backdoor for spying by Xi Jinping's regime.
Having compared the "fake" Huawei P30 sample shots grabbed by GSMAreana with the ones in Richard Yu's weibo post, it's safe to say that Huawei updated the pics with a disclaimer *after* being called out. This wouldn't have been an issue if this was done in the first place. pic.twitter.com/8RmRPFWcIO
- Richard Lai (@richardlai) March 12, 2019
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