“Amid Nokia’s flurry of press today — if you haven’t heard, they released a new flagship phone along with some other gear — one video advertisement in particular caught our eye,” T.C. Sottek reports for The Verge.
“In the ad, Nokia shows off the PureView’s image stabilization technology,” Sottek reports. “The opening segment (which, importantly, isn’t qualified by a ‘screen images simulated’ notice), shows a young man and woman cheerily riding bikes along a scenic river. As he films her breezily laughing, the ad shows side-by-side video — obviously intended to represent the phone’s video capabilities. On the left, Nokia shows the non-stabilized version, which, predictably, looks terrible, and on the right the ad shows the perfectly smooth capture, purportedly enabled by Nokia’s optical image stabilization technology.”
Sottek reports, “The only problem is that the video is faked.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Attribution: Daring Fireball. Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz,” “Dan K.,” and “Sarah” for the heads up.]
I call: no mean posts
Nokia has already admitted their deception. Move on. They’re already doomed.
With so much to lose for such a deception with these make it or break it Windows Phone models why would you take ANY chance?! It makes it seem these phones don’t hold up on their own. Just shows you the terrible decision making going on with CEO Elop a total Microflop. Fantastic boneheaded move! Just shoot yourself in the foot, hand, and head why doncha?
They are launching the lie that benefits sales then banking on no one reading the articles that expose the lie.
Bill Gates has done that repeatedly in interviews. Lied like crazy, because the initial interview is the big story, all future commentary exposing the lie are just smaller stories with minor exposure.
Wow you talk about fanboys in denial… Did you read the responses? And I though 99% of the apple fans posting were more than polite. Dan, can you imagine if apple diid something like that????
I think this confirms my assertion that MS has far more “blind devotion” from it’s fans that apple ever did. They are in total denial/equivocation mode (just like they are with the windows malware issue)
Busted!
I would prefer MDN to no longer post Flash video’s.
Flash is dead. Or maybe it isn’t YET, because of some web designers embracing it even further, hoping that they will be paid a SECOND time to convert all that to HTML5 (when the inevitable happens, i.e., Flash support is dropped from all platforms, including Windows, Android, etc.).
Second that. Seems like every time I run across a Flash video my Flash player needs updating, necessitating downloading, quitting Safari, installing, restarting Safari….
Dan, why do you bother coming on here, other than as just another tedious little troll, writing crap just to provoke a response? Why don’t you hang around on the Nokia Lumia forums?
Oh, wait…
waaaaah! I was just trying to keep MDN, my favorite blog, civil and lighthearted. Let’s all be buds, OK? Not smug or angry. Just glad to have our shiny iDevices. Psyched for 9/12!!
The guy above you is a pinhead. Pay no attention to him.
If my tag name was Microsoft’s CEO left nut sack, I would be careful calling anyone a pinhead.
He is the actual *left nut*, not the nut sack.
Agreed.
BLN you forgot the “end irony” tag in your post
/I
There… fixed it for you
Priceless fail!
Chairs will fly today…
And the photo of Elop on stage with Monkeyboy. The car salesman with his boss, Fester.
“Why don’t you hang around on the Nokia Lumia forums?
Oh, wait…”
!!!! Good one!
Those Siri commercials? Yeah. Fake & gay.
Fuck, dude. How is the vid “gay”? Grow up, and grow a set of balls, Ballmer’s Left Nut. When you have to stoop to sexual preference to make a point, you loose all credibility, man.
*lose
fer shurrre, dude!
Take your potty mouth and go back to your porn site chat rooms.
Sez the dipshit who calls me a pinhead!
I regard any comment from someone who’s username tells everyone they’re a testicle with little more than barely disguised contempt.
*whose
BLN are you bipolar or do you just drop on and off meds? (including “self prescribed”)
Sometimes you actually (partially anyway) make some sense then (like this one) you post something that a nine year old would be embarrassed of.
Dude… get a grip.
I can see smoke coming from asses of iphone fans. I know you guys can NOT accept most beautiful phones.
Every cheap guy has iphone. 😉
Umm. Such a grasp of the English language you have there, Gupta.
Yeah, like those cheap people in India who are still buying the overpriced 3GS.
Hey Gupta, is your butt buddy Edward by chance?
Remember : India is where all those “bloggers” that Scamdung flew to Berlin on one-way tickets came from. If “Gupta” doesn’t write nasty things about Scamdung competitors, he’ll have to find his own way home.
Gupta – I was just reading that Indians on average eat 10 grams of human fecal material a day. True?
@ qka:
Without India, you guys are nothing. We are fucking you so hard, but you people never say no. lol
You guys eat pigs, and act like pigs. We Indians are vegetarians, and we are smarter than you guys.
Vegetarianism is unnatural for humans. That could explain why Indians usually look unhealthy. Gupta is not edward he has a different writing style
As I said, you guys eat pigs and act like pigs. Look at yourself, don’t you feel that you are a pig?
Gupta,
One; the rest of the world eats pigs (well except Israel)
Two; India isn’t “fscking” anyone (except themselves) they can’t even feed their own population.
China on the other hand….
As I said, you guys eat pigs and that’s why you act like pigs. Just look at yourself, you will see a pig inside you, and that’s why you guys don’t respect anyone. You guys are pigs, and that’s why you guys fuck your mothers, daughters, sisters. Shame on you.
India is fucking you guys so hard, you are nothing without India. You guys know nothing and that’s why we Indians are getting jobs. lol
Jesus, please shut your sorry assed mouth already. Sick of your India crap.
Come on everybody, go easy on Gupta. He’s supporting a dead platform. Isn’t that punishment enough? 🙁
MDN stands for “Mad Dogs News”
sigh. what has happened to people? take a big breath and consider your response before blitting it out and hitting Return. life is beautiful, you are beautiful. let your love for others express itself. really. not gay, not het, not troll. just listen, learn, love. Here: this will get your attention: Steve Jobs would want you to be nice.
Dan, you’re a pussy. And as for Steve Jobs, he’s dead so why bring him up? You’re as bad as the fanboys who constantly bring him up. Steve Jobs was anything but a nice guy so he sure as hell wouldn’t care how you act. Or the rest of us. He’s dead let’s move on quit using him to make excuses for your stupidity. And yes, he would certainly call you a big pussy!
GM, I know how to stick two words together and convey a sentiment. I think I made my case. I hope you have a way to let your bad feelings go and just enjoy living. I’m neither a hater nor a Pollyanna. I just like Apple products and at the root, I like seeing the creepy companies get their just desserts, like Nokia and Samsung, just like you. Only I don’t go all flamey and random.
Point taken. But Steve is dead. He does not matter anymore. I too love my Apple stuff.
Sarcasm ON. Gupta, you are so clever. You do such honour to the English language. Your chastization of MDN standing for “Mad Dogs News” is degradation of the highest form. Priceless demonstration of intellect. What wit! How on earth were you able to think of such stinging rebuke so quickly. You must have been blessed by shiva himself. Sarcasm OFF.
Ah, the deceit begins. Oops, it never ended. Just that MS has now dragged Nokia into their game. Oh well.
The really sad thing… The “image stabilization OFF” footage is probably ALSO fake and not taken with the Lumia (to better match the fake “stabilized” footage). So, the Lumia is not even good enough to take the bad footage. 🙂
LOL
I can really see smoke coming from your ass.
Try to accept other beautiful things made by other companies. 😉
Who is going to buy iphone 5 with same old design? LOL
what planet do you live on? What color is the sky there? Do you have hobbits on your planet?
Windows phone hurts the eyes to look at.
You seem to have quite the interest in other people’s asses. That and pigs.
I have also noticed he has a, somewhat disquieting, fascination/obsession with incest.
Perhaps thats normal where he is from.
Personally I think he has proved himself a great spokesperson for the new Nokia/MSFT Lumina phones… A truly stunning and complete failure.
I was hoping she was going to slam into a parked car.
It’s flash video. Can’t see it on my Mac. Oddly enough there is an HTML 5 version because it can be seen on my phone.
hahaha
Why can’t you see flash video on a Mac? I watched it just fine. On a Mac. 2007 model, even.
Because I choose not to install Flash on my Mac, as it’s a piece of shit technology. As was pointed out by Steve Jobs (and as I have noticed my self) the number one cause of program crashes on the Mac is because of Flash.
There is an HTML 5 version of the video but because of incompetence on the part of The Verge, the website doesn’t show it if you’re on a comp without the Flash plug-in installed.
Yeah Gooooogle is really going out of their way to push flash They have recently found a way to disable YouTube5 (though, no doubt, Connor will find a way around that block)
It is curious though, why is Goooooooogle pushing so hard for flash?
SOP* – MS has a long history of faking images in product announcements. Oh, wait…
The products and features are fake, too!
*Standard Operating Procedure – for those outside the US
Doesnt Apple do this type of stuff with their marketing?
Clearly you remember them saying iPhone 4 was amazing and it turned out to be a lemon antenna design! LOL
Testing my rear!
lol
@Joel @gupta
You guys should really stop sucking each other’s dick on a public forum—it’s really nauseating.
=:~)
‘Testing my rear!’ … my, you have quite a lot in common with this ‘Gupta’ boy. I’m sure he would love to ‘test your rear’.
joel, are you really that out of touch, it was a (failed) attempt to dampen the launch momentum of the iPhone 4.
I had the 3G and the 4 and the antenna on the 4 was (is) considerably better than the 3G or my blackberry.
Yes if oyu wrapped you hand completely around it and squeezed till it hurt you could get the signal strength to drop but that is true of any cell phone. (many videos demonstrating signal loss on various phones up on youtube)
Wow… I knew you haters were pretty clueless but that is old old news.
I miss Zune Tang (R). He used to be a lot more fun than these anonymous first name guys.
Trolls are not what they used to be 🙁
Haha, BUSTED…again MS!
Damned videos: working only on the american continent?!?
Think different: think universal!
We like it. Fix your own shit. Quit riding our coat tails. We like thinking American. We must have something because everyone is trying to get into our country. Bitch to people give a shit what you think.
oh yeah, GM… that kinda thinking’s gonna make your country even bigger in people’s views, and quick. well said, keep it coming. We’re so proud of you.
Im in Korea and I watched it just fine on my iPad
It does seem like if MDN finds it OK to remove my posts when I complain about something on their website, surely they can remove the extreme vulgar posts. I was going to send a link to this article to my sister but changed my mind after reading the comments. (This post removed in 3..2…1)
Hey Wingsy, how’s it going bro? I like reading your posts. They’re sane and intelligent, unlike mine. 🙂
MDN deletes my posts all the time. I never let that bother me. Just keep on trucking brother. Don’t let that bother ya. 🙂
Bizarro – the cam’s non-cheat performance seems quite good, so why bother to cheat in the first place?
Whoever did the editing and post on that thing should be fired – there is no way in hell I’d let a shot like that get by me – no matter how much of a time crunch.
Remember the faked Volvo ads. Ballmer should be so happy as “faked is part of MArketing strategies”.