3. Nokia's fake demo

3. Nokia's fake demo

Nokia confirmed for the tech press what many of us have wondered for years: Just how many of these awesome on-stage demonstrations are a bunch of baloney? And has Apple really been hiring tribute bands and not mega-stars like Tony Bennett for its product launches?

We kid about Tony Bennett (we hope), but Nokia's demo fakery really happened. In September, Nokia showed off its Windows phone 8 devices, particularly the Lumia 920 and its optical image stabilization (OIS). They showed a promotional video comparing a phone with OIS to one without OIS and -- guess what? -- OIS won. We know, go figure!

But there was a catch: Some eagle-eyed writers at The Verge noticed an odd reflection in the clip, forcing Nokia to admit that the OIS video was actually shot by a normal camera. Nokia also admitted to using still images from that faked video, promised an ethics probe to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen again, and the rest of us went back to forgetting that Nokia was still making smartphones.