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Huawei Trolls Apple By Giving Battery Packs To People Waiting in Line For the iPhone XS (abacusnews.com)
Huawei, which recently surpassed Apple to become the world's second largest smartphone player, can't stop taking shots at the iPhone maker. From a report: After the iPhone XS was unveiled with little new, Huawei tweeted "Thank you for letting us be the real hero of the year," a tease for their upcoming Mate 20 Pro unveiling next month. Now Huawei's taking another shot -- by handing out battery packs to people waiting in line for the iPhone XS and XS Max in Singapore. The packaging says "You'll need it", which is actually a valid boast: Anandtech found that Huawei's P20 and P20 Pro had better battery life than the iPhone 8 and X.
Get rid of silly useless energy-hogging smartphones that you really don't need in the first place and get a nice cheap basic dumbphone instead, the battery will last a week on one charge and you'll have so much more time to do other things when you're not wasting it all with your eyes glued to the screen like some silly child.
I find it kind of amusing they were handing out a battery pack for people waiting in line for new devices, when the newer ones will probably have even better life and might just beat the Huawei ones (for real life use especially).
That certainly would be the case if the Xr were shipping.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
And the iPhone isn't anymore efficient or significantly better performing per watt in either synthetic tests or real life usage.
Just in case you were wondering.
Hipsters gonna hipster. If they're already committed enough to wait in line for an apple phone, why would they suddenly switch away from apple? They're addicted, does huawei expect to be their next drug instead? android isn't close to good enough for that.
Of course their phones have better batteries. How is the Chinese gov't going to spy on you if your phone dies?
I own a 5 years old Nexus 5 on which I've been running LineageOS pretty much since its inception. I recently made a few pro-privacy changes in my life and realised that I don't actually need any Google software on my phone anymore. Having disposed of G-Apps, the battery life went from 1 day to almost 3 days. This clearly shows how much their apps do behind the scenes. If I had to guess, I'd say that they are probably covertly using your location (regardless of your settings) to predict things like traffic, peak hours at shopping centres and such like.
Fuck them. Nexus 6Ps were made by Huawei, and those phones are plagued with battery issues. The batteries aren't replaceable and they didn't stand behind them.
Why Huawei thought a marketing stunt comprised of taking the piss out of consumers was a good idea is beyond me. Taking the piss out of Apple? Well, sure. But of Apple *users*? That's a remarkably crass thing for a company to do.
I sure hope they use syncstop or something else who knows what else besides juice people are getting with those battery packs!!
So I'm going to attach a device from Huawei, a company I don't trust, to a device that has sensitive personal data? Really?
Huawei devices having higher capacity batteries does not make a boast about iPhone users needing external batteries valid.
Iâ(TM)ll take a bit less battery life over this:
Google data collection research
https://digitalcontentnext.org...
The key findings include:
A dormant, stationary Android phone (with the Chrome browser active in the background) communicated location information to Google 340 times during a 24-hour period, or at an average of 14 data communications per hour. In fact, location information constituted 35 percent of all the data samples sent to Google.
For comparisonâ(TM)s sake, a similar experiment found that on an iOS device with Safari but not Chrome, Google could not collect any appreciable data unless a user was interacting with the device. Moreover, an idle Android phone running the Chrome browser sends back to Google nearly fifty times as many data requests per hour as an idle iOS phone running Safari.
An idle Android device communicates with Google nearly 10 times more frequently as an Apple device communicates with Apple servers. These results highlighted the fact that Android and Chrome platforms are critical vehicles for Googleâ(TM)s data collection. Again, these experiments were done on stationary phones with no user interactions. If you actually use your phone the information collection increases with Google.
Google has the ability to associate anonymous data collected through passive means with the personal information of the user. Google makes this association largely through advertising technologies, many of which Google controls. Advertising identifiersâ"which are purportedly âoeuser anonymousâ and collect activity data on apps and third-party webpage visitsâ"can get associated with a userâ(TM)s real Google identity through passing of device-level identification information to Google servers by an Android device.
Likewise, the DoubleClick cookie IDâ"which tracks a userâ(TM)s activity on the third-party webpagesâ"is another purportedly âoeuser anonymousâ identifier that Google can associate to a userâ(TM)s Google account. It works when a user accesses a Google application in the same browser in which a third-party webpage was accessed previously.
A major part of Googleâ(TM)s data collection occurs while a user is not directly engaged with any of its products. The magnitude of such collection is significant, especially on Android mobile devices, arguably the most popular personal accessory now carried 24/7 by more than 2 billion people.
This is what you get for using a device whose operating system is made by the worldâ(TM)s largest ad network.
Reading these responses, I can see that Apple users have no sense of humor.
Relax and enjoy your free gift.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
One of the ios "upgrades" caused my ipad to stop recognizing and using an external battery.
I get herd mentality, fashion, and the lust for status and luxury. However, waiting in line for consumer products which can be ordered online and delivered to your door? Is it really that important to have the first one sold at a particular store? And even if being _the_ very first in line might be fun, what is the point of being number 87?
It's worth it to not suffer the testicle twisting interface that apple insists on using.
Coming from a company cheating performance benchmarks and camera shots this is pretty funny.
Because, Huawei is chinese, and there have been plenty of espionage claims (see wikipedias entries)
Who would you trust your data with - apple of huawei (basically chinese ex-pla people).
Huawei was the company who proudly showed excellent quality selfies produced with their new phones - and then it turned out that they were actually taken by a professional with a professional DSLR camera. Not on a phone as they claimed.
And the iPhone XS and XS Max have significantly longer battery life than the older models.
But at what cost to functionality comes the muched hyped battery life?
http://help.locusmap.eu/topic/problem-with-locus-map-on-huawei-android-8-devices