‘Huawei busted defrauding clients yet again’

Huawei caught faking phone photos, yet again

Another set of marketing campaign photos from Huawei turned out to be taken by a camera other than the one they’d been promoting.

This month’s culprit was the Huawei P30, a smartphone that actually, truly does have an impressive camera – with neat effects. Instead of using this device to capture photos with which to impress potential users, Huawei decided to go a more familiar route.

Huawei’s been found guilty more than once of using photos captured by DSLR photos in advertising campaigns for smartphones. If these photos were used by said campaigns in a traditional sense, nobody would have an issue. If the photos were, for example, taken OF the smartphone being promoted, that’d be totally fine.

The issue is that the photos in these campaigns were implied to have been taken by each smartphone being promoted. In August of 2018 they did it with a Huawei Nova 3. In July of 2016, they did it with the Huawei P9.

Huawei acknowledged the fact that they’d made this mistake in the July event. At this point it’s unlikely they’ve got the same advertising team as they did in 2016 – but they’re obviously in the same mindset.

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