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Cheating is ugly. Is very ugly. Because they betray whoever has put their trust in you. Also, sooner or later they will catch you and you will not be in a good place. This time it was the turn of the Chinese phone brand Huawei, which has been caught falsifying the performance data of some of its terminals in benchmark tests. The Verge media reports that AnandTech, a website specializing in technology reviews, had detected that Huawei had been pushing its terminals to the maximum, optimizing them in such a way that when one of these tests was run, it gave misleading data.
Huawei punished by 3DMark
Specifically, it is a test called 3DMark, a popular benchmarking application. The developer company has already said in public statements that it will eliminate from the results the Huawei terminals that have committed the fraud, among which is the Huawei P20 Pro. In total, there have been 4 terminals that have been forced to the maximum to give Results that are real: Huawei P20, Huawei P20 Pro, Huawei Nova 3 and a terminal from the Honor brand, Huawei's online sales brand, specifically the Honor Play.
Specifically, what Huawei has done has been to maximize the performance of its terminals while a specific application is running. These tests are supposed to test the phone under global stress conditions, not in parts. UL Benchmarks, the 3DMark developer company, ran an internal version of its application, testing it on the aforementioned Huawei terminals, without them knowing how to recognize that it was precisely the 3DMark app. They did not reach the peaks of effort that they did reach when the mobile knew perfectly which application was putting them to the test. This means that Huawei phones, by themselves, are unable to reach those performance levels, so they were manipulated on purpose.
Consequently, UL has removed these 4 terminals from the positions on the general classification lists, alluding to a lack of compromise in its rules.
This is not Huawei's first hoax
Huawei does not stop getting into trouble for wanting to 'adorn' too much the virtues of its products. Last week it was the turn of the photographic section of his Huawei Nova 3 (one of those removed from the 3DMark app for falsifying its performance). Apparently, the promotional photos that claimed that their camera was exceptional had been taken with professional DSLR cameras rather than with the Huawei Nova 3 itself, which would be expected.
The main model of the Huawei Nova 3 advertising campaign, with all the good intentions in the world, put photos of the shooting of the video that we have linked to previously. Well, one of the photos clearly showed that the 'selfies' that the couple took, (the model did not carry anything in hand) supposedly with the Huawei terminal, were actually being taken with a professional camera. This is how we can see it in the following screenshot.
In its defense, Huawei affirmed that at no point in its announcement did it say that these images were taken with its own terminal. Huawei's history of 'cheating' is not limited to these two cases. She was also caught applying Photoshop to leaked renderings of a terminal and posting photos taken, apparently, with another of her terminals until it was found that they had been taken with a professional camera. Will we see more similar cases in the future?
