Over the past couple of years, I noticed that there are 2 kinds of reviewers: reviewers who got a free review unit, and reviewers who got a unit from their own money.
Reviewers with free units will review way more models, but they are obligated to give mostly positive points and keep negative points at a minimum, otherwise the company will never give them another free unit again.
Because reviews they make are effectively lengthy advertisements.
Reviewers who aren't contracted by any of the phone companies and have to buy the phone themselves will maybe review one or two model a year, and might require a lot of searching on YouTube, but can freely say whatever they want about it.
So these reviewers are honest because they have no strings attached.
That's why the former group will probably avoid certain questions while the latter will put them in with no problems if you ask for it.
The problem is not necessarily that they don't want to talk about hackability or indepth technical parts, the problem is they are not allowed to.
Reviewers with free units will review way more models, but they are obligated to give mostly positive points and keep negative points at a minimum, otherwise the company will never give them another free unit again.
Because reviews they make are effectively lengthy advertisements.
Reviewers who aren't contracted by any of the phone companies and have to buy the phone themselves will maybe review one or two model a year, and might require a lot of searching on YouTube, but can freely say whatever they want about it.
So these reviewers are honest because they have no strings attached.
That's why the former group will probably avoid certain questions while the latter will put them in with no problems if you ask for it.
The problem is not necessarily that they don't want to talk about hackability or indepth technical parts, the problem is they are not allowed to.