Opinion: Did OnePlus buy its DxOMark score for the OnePlus 5?

One of the biggest selling points of the OnePlus 5 is its dual camera setup. So big, in fact, that OnePlus is touting the dual camera as the phone’s killer feature. To achieve this, OnePlus partnered with DxO to enhance their camera performance. But many believe that the partnership only helped to artificially boost the DxOMark score of the OP5.

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Nokia ties up with Xiaomi, Carl Zeiss: Here’s everything you need to know

Earlier in the week, the HMD Global controlled Nokia announced that it had partnered with Xiaomi to explore a use case of Xiaomi’s home-brewed Surge S1 processor in their smartphone lineup. What is interesting is that this relationship marks the beginning of a symbiotic relationship between Xiaomi and Nokia. Ironically, we have also come full circle, in a sense.

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