To entice you to buy a mobile phone, manufacturers have started to play tricks on the specification pages.

Some time ago, at the domestic launch event of the Mate XTs, Huawei finally announced the model of the Kirin chip used in its mobile phones.

When Yu Chengdong said, "We are equipped with the Kirin 9020 chip," the bullet comments on the screen were almost all "Wow!"

After all, the last time Huawei specifically mentioned its own mobile phone chip was in 2021 when introducing the Kirin 9000 of the Mate X2.

There are indeed difficulties for Huawei not to announce the Kirin chip on its official website. But this also made Tony discover a problem. Previously, we all defaulted that manufacturers must indicate the information of their products on the official website pages.

But in fact, can manufacturers choose not to write it?

For this reason, Tony specifically looked through relevant materials. As a result, it was found that there are currently no relevant laws stipulating which parameters manufacturers must list on their official websites. This means that mobile phone manufacturers can completely choose not to write all the parameters on the official website.

Hey? Apart from Huawei's special situation, will other manufacturers take advantage of this loophole and play tricks on the parameter pages?

After comparing the information on the official websites of various manufacturers, Tony found that there are indeed some interesting things about this.

According to the materials Tony found, generally speaking, manufacturers dare not be vague about the most basic specification parameters of mobile phones.

Specifically, basic parameters such as the appearance size and display parameters of mobile phones are almost always included. Even if the screen parameters of some mobile phones are relatively poor, no manufacturer dares to deceive consumers about these things.

In addition, manufacturers will not casually conceal communication - related parameters such as network frequency bands, supported operator types, Bluetooth protocols, and satellite positioning information.

Moreover, they will also honestly provide us with information such as pixels and apertures.

To put it simply, most manufacturers are relatively honest in providing corresponding data for some of the most basic parameters.

On the one hand, these data are too basic, and it really doesn't make sense not to include them. On the other hand, parameters such as photo pixels and storage size are relatively easy for the public to think of, and it's not easy to conceal them.

Beyond these areas, it's a high - risk area for manufacturers to play tricks. The descriptions of various manufacturers in these areas are often ambiguous, or they even directly avoid mentioning them.

For example, in previous years, there was a lot of online discussion about the performance of USB interfaces. At that time, some friends found that many flagship phones priced at four or five thousand yuan still only supported the USB 2.0 protocol for their USB interfaces, which sparked a great deal of discussion. At that time, you could almost see people scolding the manufacturers online every day.

To this day, although many manufacturers have standard - equipped interfaces above USB 3.0 on their flagship phones, there are still some manufacturers firmly sticking to USB 2.0.

On the product parameter pages of these USB 2.0 products, their introduction of the interface performance is just simply skipped with a phrase "Type - C".

By the way, I'd like to remind everyone that even if your phone supports a protocol above USB 3.0, the data cable included by the manufacturer in the phone box may not support the corresponding high - speed transmission protocol.

Moreover, most phone parameter pages do not indicate this information. To know whether your data cable supports it, you can only try it yourself.

A few manufacturers will indicate whether the included data cable supports the high - speed transmission protocol

In terms of fingerprint recognition, although in the past two years, manufacturers have been promoting the ultrasonic fingerprint on their flagship phones (the main advantage is that there won't be a glaring light spot).

But when their other models use short - focus fingerprints, they will only silently write on the parameter page that the fingerprint recognition function is supported.

As for the imaging aspect, where flagship phones of various manufacturers mainly focus on, there are even more tricks.

Take video recording for example. Some manufacturers will tell us that the phone supports 4K 60fps shooting, but they won't tell us whether zooming is supported in this state, or whether 4K 60fps can be shot when the anti - shake mode is turned on.

Some manufacturers will even simply write that it supports up to 8K at most, without even telling us the specific frame rate. (Dude, this is too concise.)

Moreover, most manufacturers won't tell us which company the sensors of these cameras are from.

Even if some manufacturers write about this, they only selectively tell users, and directly omit the sensor models with average performance parameters.

Regarding the materials used for the phone cover or frame, most manufacturers don't mention it at all. If you want to know specifically, it seems that you can only go offline to experience it hands - on.

In addition, manufacturers like Apple don't even list parameters such as battery capacity.

If you don't run a test, you won't know how large the battery capacity of this thing is at all. On their official website, they will only tell you how many hours this phone can play videos.

Moreover, buddy never tells everyone the memory size either. For example, for this year's iPhone 17, if no one conducts a test, no one would know that Apple still uses 8GB of memory in a phone priced at 6,000 yuan.

As mentioned at the beginning, Huawei's act of deleting the chip model on the phone parameter page is not unique to it.

Another international manufacturer, Samsung, is also the same. Although it indicates on the overview of the official website that it uses the Snapdragon 8 Elite, on its official website parameter page, there has never been a specific display of the chip model. It only marks the main frequency and the number of cores. (By the way, is the act of marking an eight - core CPU a bit of a throwback...)

There are many similar situations. For example, for the various eye - protection functions launched by manufacturers, everyone likes to emphasize on the parameter page that their screens are eye - protecting, but few manufacturers will write out the specific parameters, only giving us the concept of eye - protection.

Without mandatory data descriptions, consumers will be confused about what the actual level is and buy products blindly.

When Tony was comparing the parameters of various mobile phones, he also found an interesting little phenomenon. That is, the cheaper the phone, the more the manufacturer will write a lot of unnecessary software functions on it to enrich its parameter details page.

For example, in terms of the imaging of some entry - level phones, manufacturers find that they really have nothing much to say, but they think it looks a bit shabby to only write a few data, so they even start to write functions such as video recording support, filters, and beauty functions...

Generally speaking, although the information density on the parameter details pages of these manufacturers is very high, making it seem very detailed, there are indeed many areas that are unclear.

Except for those most basic parameters, in areas where users can't perceive immediately or in more detailed aspects, manufacturers will selectively put data on the page. Especially when they are at a disadvantage, manufacturers will choose to deal with it vaguely or directly not mention it.

At this time, even if we carefully look at the parameter page, it's not easy to notice that a certain parameter is not written, unless we specifically come to query a certain data.