A few years ago, a story took more than a few people by surprise when it revealed how more then a few companies play around with the benchmarking apps by “optimizing” performance. That time a few of them apologized but it feels that, after a new report, we are back to square one.
The companies in question are OnePlus and Meizu, both of which are artificially enhancing the performance of their flagship phones, the 3T and the Pro 6. The news broke when various people within the XDA community found discrepancies in benchmark scores.
In the case of OnePlus, the phone was found to exert full load on CPU, ensuring maximum performance even when there was not much work being done.
The phone specifically looked for names which triggered the high-performance mode, including AnTuTu, Androbench, Geekbench, Quadrant, Vellamo and GFXBench. When developers made a custom-made app to see how the performance varied, it subsequently showed scores more in line with smartphones with similar specs.
The developers also used the specially-made app to check smartphones from other Android OEMs, including Samsung, HTC, Huawei, Google and Sony, but did not find them messing with the results, something which certainly wasn’t the case when the original story broke covers back in 2013.
Still, there were a few notable ones such as the Chinese manufacturer Meizu, which was employing similar tactics with its flagship Pro 6 Plus phone.
OnePlus has since agreed to solve the discrepancy in a future update for Oxygen OS.
Image Source: TheNextWeb
I would advise the author to read up on how to cite sources in articles and the standards which need to be followed. Because this has not been done here at all. You did mention the image source but along with that you have to give a link to the article on TheNextWeb and also XDA since you got all your information from them. Don’t be misguided in thinking that it is correct to just gather info which has already been published on other websites and then to use it for your own purpose without mentioning them as sources.
The correct way is the following, with the names being links to the original articles:
Via: TheNextWeb
Source: XDA-Developers
These are some very valid points you have made, Mr. Tahir. We will most definitely take this under consideration.
Good read, but just as Mr Tahir proposed source links would add jewels to the article.
Ethics & Professionalism aside, Why so crazy about those bench marks anyway? None of them can accurately model real life usage anyway.
PS: I am using One Plus 3 since October last year and I think its claim to be one of the speedy one is pretty accurate. I am not a crazy user but with some time 20+ , 30+ application in memory and many tabs in chrome phone performance is very admirable. No lagging almost.