How many advertisements do HOVM’s four domestic flagship mobile phones bring？ Here comes the detailed review

Original Tony bad review

The cause of the incident has to start with the Meizu 18 series double flagship conference held by Meizu a while ago.

At that time, Meizu announced that it would completely abandon the system advertising revenue, and Flyme would only keep the necessary functions of the system, so as to achieve 0 advertising, 0 push and 0 pre-installation, which caused quite a stir in the mobile phone circle.

Poor friends don’t look at the current Android flagship and sell it for four or five thousand. They have tied Apple and iPhone at the same price, but their systems may not be as pure as iOS, and built-in advertisements still exist.

I know that at this time, some bad friends will definitely jump out and say what advertisements can be turned off, but advertising really affects the user experience. If the system has advertisements, does it mean that it has no advertisements?

Now Meizu has made a statement, but other mobile phone manufacturers have not moved yet. Tony is also a little curious about other Android systems besides Meizu Flyme system. Now there are not many built-in advertisements in them.

So I simply found Huawei Mate 40 Pro, OPPO Find X3 Pro, vivo X60 Pro+ and Xiaomi 11.

Next, let’s take a look at which mobile phone has the most built-in advertisements among the four flagship mobile phones of HOVM.

In order to ensure the objectivity and fairness of the evaluation as much as possible, Tony has updated these four mobile phones to the latest system (excluding the development version, only for the stable version for the public), and all of them have been restored to the factory settings.

The first is the comparison of the number of mobile phone pre-installed apps.

Although pre-installed apps are not strictly advertisements, these third-party apps installed in mobile phones by default are also a kind of promotion, so Tony will treat these apps as advertisements for the time being.

After Huawei Mate 40 Pro was restored to factory settings, 64 apps including Baidu, Taobao and JD.COM were installed by default, of which 44 were native apps, and if you count the popular recommendations, that is 74.

OPPO Find X3 Pro has 59 apps installed by default, including Baidu, Weibo and Station B, among which 39 are native apps.

Vivo X60 Pro+ has 60 apps installed by default, including 20 third-party apps and 40 native apps.

There are also many apps for Xiaomi 11, including 37 native apps and 20 third-party apps, with a total of 57 pre-installed apps.

In contrast, Tony also counted the pre-installed apps of Meizu 18 Pro and iPhone 12. There are 32 apps in the former and 34 apps in the latter. These are all native apps, and there are no third-party apps.

In terms of the number of pre-installed apps, these four mobile phones can be said to be half a catty.

So what about the built-in advertisements of these native apps?

In the weather apps of these four mobile phones, only Xiaomi 11 appeared advertisements:

In the calendar App, Xiaomi 11 and Huawei Mate 40 Pro appeared advertisements:

Xiaomi 11▼

Huawei Mate 40 Pro▼

In the security center/mobile phone housekeeper App, there are no advertisements on the four mobile phones.

In the music App, Xiaomi 11 placed two game advertisements in the banner:

Huawei Mate 40 Pro has put two promotional activities related to its own products:

OPPO Find X3 Pro and vivo X60 Pro+ banners are music-related recommendations:

OPPO Find X3 Pro▼

vivo X60 Pro+▼

In the wallet App, all four mobile phones have banner advertisements without exception, and of course there are some promotions related to wealth management, lending and insurance.

Xiaomi 11▼

Huawei Mate 40 Pro▼

OPPO Find X3 Pro▼

vivo X60 Pro+▼

In the browser App, Tony noticed that OPPO Find X3 Pro has temporarily changed the background of the search box to mobile phone promotion:

The background of the search box of vivo X60 Pro+ is the sister who braved the wind and waves:

The browsers of Xiaomi 11 and Huawei Mate 40 Pro are quite normal:

Xiaomi 11▼

Huawei Mate 40 Pro▼

As for the app store, these four mobile phones also have corresponding recommendation positions on their home pages.

Xiaomi 11▼

Huawei Mate 40 Pro▼

OPPO Find X3 Pro▼

vivo X60 Pro+▼

In addition to advertisements when using native apps, Tony also saw advertisements on Xiaomi 11 and OPPO Find X3 Pro when installing apps from third-party channels:

Xiaomi 11▼

OPPO Find X3 Pro▼

Huawei Mate 40 Pro will directly recommend the App to you in the boutique application of the desktop:

What the friends here need to understand is that because there is a certain randomness in the system advertising push, there may be a situation that "there should have been an advertisement but Tony didn’t see it this time".

For example, Tony saw the advertisement in Xiaomi 11′ s music App for the first time, and then he clicked in for the second time. . .

It is because of the existence of such Schrodinger advertisements that it is really hard to draw a conclusion about which mobile phone will have the most system advertisements for Tony for a while.

But in any case, these advertisements that suddenly appear in front of you really affect the experience of using mobile phones. If bad friends think that these system advertisements can be closed, it is a big mistake.

After Tony manually turned off the advertising service of one of the mobile phones, he still brushed the advertisement in its theme store:

When you open some apps that don’t have advertising pop-ups, you may also be forced to add advertising pop-ups by the system. If I don’t say this, it is estimated that many poor friends still don’t know it.

The intention of manufacturers to spare no effort to insert advertisements in mobile phone systems is obvious, that is, to make more money by placing advertisements.

But is this really reasonable? In Tony’s view, when we buy a mobile phone, we have already paid for its hardware and system, so manufacturers should not continue to use system advertising to make money.

Even if they set the option of closing advertisements now, it is only to stop our complaining mouths. Otherwise, why don’t they just delete advertisements? This is the root of solving the problem.

In short, this wave of Meizu’s operation can be said to be a good start, and then it depends on whether other mobile phone manufacturers can follow.

Original title: "How many advertisements do HOVM’s four domestic flagship mobile phones bring? Detailed comments are coming! 》

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