Despite what others would like you to believe, Fujifilm will not be working with smartphone manufacturers to bring its simulations to a phone anytime soon. While the move would be an interesting one, the rumor is the product of lazy reporting because the account that posted the images has a ton of speculative posts and uses Deepseek to speculate about future products. You can see an example of his prompting below, where the user asks who Fujifilm would work with and why.
The posting account has over 100k followers on weibo, but it is hard to determine what has garnered them so much attention. The other image that wasn’t shared by the sites that reported the X200 are even more clearly user-created.
If all of the above doesn’t fully disprove the fake rumor for you, then maybe this will meet the Vivo X300, which was posted on the same weibo user account that started the rumor.
Most “rumors” come from Chinese social media because they do not value intellectual property like the West and build most of the products we buy, so they are on production lines. Sure, there are a few “leakers” breaking their NDA’s, but the vast majority of “leaks” are still new, uncited Chinese “sources.” I am making this point simply because it is only when a source is provided to a rumor that we can judge the legitimacy of the leak ourselves and it seems like the only time some sites will share these sources is to cover their butt’s when the rumor turns out to be false. In this particular instance, it is far worse because zero effort was put into verifying the rumor.
via fujirumors via gsmarena via JohnnyManuel_89
