How do electronics manufacturers fool us?

Choosing a consumer electronics item in a store (smartphone, tablet, navigator, registrar), most often, alas, we can evaluate only its external qualities. Of course, there are characteristics indicated on the packaging and in the instructions. But often these are just beautiful words and marketing lure. The super-duper 100-megapixel camera of a brand new inexpensive Chinese smartphone in practice can shoot worse than the “modest” 8 megapixel old iPhone 4, which costs the same and even cheaper. The filling is something that really depends on how the newly acquired gadget will work ...

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And often even so - will he even somehow work or “die” in a week. The stuffing, the quality of the insides, the assembly - all this is hidden from the eyes of the average consumer. Well, do not go shopping with a screwdriver!

Moreover, cunning sellers (not at all disinterestedly) are trying to sell the buyer not what is really good and useful, but what the manufacturer pays the seller personally for in his pocket. The result of buying an advertised pig in a poke most often turns out to be deplorable: even a device that looks beautiful on the outside can be defective or simply crookedly assembled inside. That will lead at least to problems in operation, and as a maximum - to a quick breakdown. And it's one thing if the music player breaks down and you have to go to work without music. And another thing is if, for example, at the time of “auto-setting” on the road, it turns out that your DVR is not able to help restore justice. The car owner will get a round sum because of the scammers!

Russian electronic engineers from the Datakam design bureau are absolutely not satisfied with this alignment. This is almost the only company that actually develops and assembles portable consumer electronics in Russia. Namely - car DVRs with a bunch of branded, domestic know-how. When you spend days on end doing real work - programming, developing, testing devices - it is impossible to calmly watch how cunning specialists in the resale of cheap Chinese consumer goods cash in on the illiteracy of ordinary Russians Vasya and Mash.

Comrades from Datakam invited journalists and bloggers to their production. And in front of everyone's eyes, new, just bought samples of registrars of the most popular brands from China, Taiwan and Korea were opened to the screw and compared with the filling of their electronic product. Including expensive, top-end products were dismantled to the screw.

The autopsy revealed the bitter hard truth about Asian and "Russian" electronics manufacturers cashing in on our little understanding consumers. For example, it turned out that in the latest top model of the eminent Korean manufacturer, for as much as 16 thousand rubles, a four-year-old board is used. That is, the real price of the device should be at least 30% less. And in an inexpensive "Russian" registrar (100% of Chinese origin), to correct defects in manual assembly (Uncle Lyayu's factory), ... ordinary adhesive tape is used! And then this "product" is sold in large retail chains for ... attention! WHOLE six thousand rubles!!!

More shocking details can be found in the detailed material on this site. Just be prepared: there is a lot of text and photos, but everything is purely on the case! A real breakdown of the veil, as in reality our brother-buyer is being fooled by "Russian" and Asian manufacturers and hucksters.

PS I read it myself - passed it on to others! Let the people know how things are in reality with the type of "Russian" and cheap Chinese electronics!