Samsung recently came out with a new version of the popular Galaxy S4 for international markets. The updated phone, powered by a new processor, boasted impressive performance. Samsung got caught in a lie about the performance of the new phone, though, after basically gaming a piece of software to show the phone as faster than it actually is. Read more for how exactly they pulled this off – and how they got busted.
To assess the speed of central processing units and graphical processing units in any phone or computer, you can run benchmarking software to test the processing speed of the computer chips. Reporters from AnandTech dug around and found a string of code called “Benchmark Booster” that apparently allowed the international Galaxy S4 to trick the benchmarking software into reporting higher speeds. The encoded “Benchmark Booster” pulled this off by allowing the phone to operate at speeds no real world user or app would ever have access to. It’s interesting to note that Samsung refused to comment to reporters on the scandal.
