Farish
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Well, I just don't think you can assume a company that specializes in color management and provides such services to device manufacturers can be assumed to be independent, especially with no disclosure of who they have financial arrangements with.
There are many levels of lacking independence short of payola. And, who do you think would investigate and prosecute such a practice if it was payola? Are you saying there aren't biased reviews of tech products on the web? In printed magazines?
And you could be right. The reviewer could just hate someone at HTC or whatever. Or he could be friends with someone at Huwaei. Or he could really believe what he wrote.
But to take him serious, I would like to know a little bit more about his feelings on using 1 sample of each device and the provenance of those devices. Did Huwaie provide a sample that had been calibrated specifically for the test? Did they test 10 of each device to determine if the results were consistent?
I don't know. It could be absolutely accurate and true. But I have seen the screen of the HTC One and have seen S4s. I don't know if I will ever see a Huwaie, so I can't really judge.
There are bias reviews all the time(Fanboys do reviews too), but paid for is a different story. For example, Gamespot lost a lot of credibility when they fired the reviewers for the Kane and Lynch game because they had hammered how poorly made the game was done and the Kane and Lynch makers were a heavy advertiser until that time. They never pulled the review though, they just simply fired the guy.
Also the other thing I look at is, displaymate wouldn't be that valuable of a place to pay for a review. Wouldn't a mobile phone site with high traffic be worth much more than displaymate. Until today I had no clue they did display reviews of phones. And quite frankly I wouldn't look there because I rather judge with my own eyes.
One of the reasons why I got the S4 is because I love the over saturated look of darker colors on their display.
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