Samsung accused of slowing down smartphones

Samsung may have intentionally slowed down application performance on its smartphones. This is reported by the publication Android Authority.

Media journalists drew attention to the messages of enthusiasts in Twitter, who convicted the Korean company of slowing down the performance of smartphones. Users have published a list of ten thousand programs that could be artificially low by the built-in Samsung Game Optimizing Service (GOS). GOS is designed to increase overall device power and battery life.

Experts explained that the system could have recorded a list of applications, the power of which was underestimated in order to speed up the smartphone. In the list of offered programs, users found Microsoft Office, Netflix, Google Keep, TikTok services, as well as Samsung branded programs – Secure Folder, Samsung Cloud, Samsung Pay, Samsung Pass.

The material says that the disclosed list does not include 3DMark, Antutu, PCMark, GFXBench and GeekBench 5 applications – programs for measuring the performance of gadgets. From this, the authors concluded that Samsung does not slow down these programs so that their phones demonstrate maximum performance in synthetic tests.

“On the one hand, it is understandable that smartphone manufacturers are striving to balance power and battery life for many applications. On the other hand, there is a clear argument that users are not getting the performance they asked for,” the journalists noted.

The authors of the publication turned to Samsung for comment, whose representatives said they would investigate the incident. “The company is conducting an internal investigation and is taking the matter as seriously as it did with the Galaxy Note 7 debacle,” the authors concluded.

At the end of February, Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra users reported problems with the display. Horizontal stripes began to appear on the screens of smartphones, which affect the experience of using the device.