If Huawei really cares about selling phones in the U.S., it needs to stop being so shady

Huawei has been caught lying again.

In a recent ad for its Nova 3i phone, the world's second largest phone maker was exposed for misleading consumers with DSLR photos that it tried to pass off as selfies taken with the phone. 

And now AnandTech has revealed the Chinese tech giant has been artificially juicing up the chipset inside of its flagship P20 Pro in order to give it higher scores than competing phones when using the popular benchmarking app 3DMark.

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It's one thing to fake selfies in an ad, but it's another to program your phone to automatically boost the performance whenever certain whitelisted benchmarking apps are detected in order to make them appear to be more powerful than the competition. Read more...

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