Samsung accused of secretly limiting phone performance, extending battery life

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Foreign media Android Authority Recently, it was reported that Samsung Galaxy phones will secretly impose performance limits on nearly 10,000 apps to save power, and euphemistically call it “Game Optimization Service” (GOS).HoweverlistThere are many names outside the game, such as Netflix, TikTok, and Microsoft Office. Samsung said it is investigating the incident.

According to reports, GOS does not affect performance tools such as 3DMark, GeekBench 5 and PCMark, so there is no problem with the scores when I did the evaluation before. However, when users are using apps that are on the list, it is said that there will be a discount on performance, which affects the user experience.In the official discussion forum of Samsung South KoreacomplaintOne user described it this way: “I spent a lot of money on a car that might run at 300 km/h, but was limited to 150 km/h for safety reasons.”

In another more obvious example, if the name of 3DMark is changed to the game “Genshin Impact”, the score obtained is only half of the original, which proves that such a GOS limitation exists. According to the addition of Android Authority, the mobile phone models affected by GOS may be limited, such as the Galaxy S21+, but the newly released Galaxy S22 series does not seem to be.

Similar operations are not uncommon. For example, OnePlus is trying to extend the battery life of the 9 and 9 Pro.admitThere were performance limitations for some apps, and they were removed from Geekbench’s leaderboard following the incident was revealed.

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