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Nokia caught faking TV ad

ESPOO, Finland, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Finnish phone company Nokia admitted that it had been caught red-handed faking a television ad for its new Lumia 920 mobile phone.

An article in The Verge called Nokia on the ad after spotting a reflection of a camera filming for the advertisement that was said to be an example of how great the phone's video technology looked.

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Nokia was touting the phone camera's "PureView" capability, which makes it possible to film a moving object from a moving platform.

The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that Nokia chose to show off the phone by having two people on bicycles with a boyfriend on his bicycle filming his girlfriend, who was riding her bicycle.

But as the girl passes a trailer parked in the background, the reflection in the window shows for a split second that another camera other than the phone is doing the actual filming.

The Verge posted the ad stopping the action at the 27-second mark, when the reflection of a camera hidden in another van can be seen in the window of the trailer.

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