Main benchmarking service delists Samsung and HTC telephones it suspects of dishonest
Oh sure, issues are actually beginning to kick off within the arcane world of smartphone benchmarking. First, there got here clear proof of telephone makers manipulating scores in apps like AnTuTu and GFXBench, and now a extra mainstream benchmarking firm, Futuremark, has publicly delisted particular Samsung and HTC telephones that it suspects of dishonest. Futuremark says that the units in query — together with the Galaxy Observe three, HTC One and HTC One Mini — fail to stick to the equity coverage, which requires that a system treats its 3DMark app simply as it might deal with another app, with no tailored bursts of efficiency designed to realize artificially excessive scores. Clearly, this dangerous conduct is simply as endemic as we initially feared, so benchmark apps both have to toughen up, as Futuremark seems to be doing, or they should discover solely new methods of measuring efficiency.
By way of: HotHardware, The Register Supply: Futuremark
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- Working system Android (Jelly Bean [4.2])
- Display measurement four.three inches
- Inner reminiscence sixteen GB
- Carriers (US) AT&T
- Dimensions 5.2 x 2.forty nine x zero.36 in
- Weight four.three oz
- Launched 2013-08-23
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