[ChiChai]

I love China phones because they are affordable but can be very decent. However, there are some Android knockoffs plus even big companies *cough* Samsung *cough* who have been caught cheating Antutu’s benchmark app to show scores that are much better than their performance.

One modification method is by outright manipulation of Antutu’s tool itself to report higher specs. The other one, which they say was what Samsung use, is to temporarily boost performance if it senses that a benchmark is running. Lastly, another still fakes graphic performance. More info can be read here.

I guess, this is why forums and blogs that are able to give info on how devices perform can be very helpful in giving people more idea on phones that they own or plan to buy.

[Sam Bruces]

hope the tool improves better for our users!

[james1991]

Pretty disappointing to see we are being blatantly lied to as consumers.

[Rohan99]

I don’t really follow benchmarking software and their results. These benchmarks don’t really say much for me. If you want to test a device then run a game or other software on it and see for yourself how it performs. After all we don’t use the benchmarking software for anything productive.

[May102014]

ChiChai wrote:

I love China phones because they are affordable but can be very decent. However, there are some Android knockoffs plus even big companies *cough* Samsung *cough* who have been caught cheating Antutu’s benchmark app to show scores that are much better than their performance.

One modification method is by outright manipulation of Antutu’s tool itself to report higher specs. The other one, which they say was what Samsung use, is to temporarily boost performance if it senses that a benchmark is running. Lastly, another still fakes graphic performance. More info can be read here.

I guess, this is why forums and blogs that are able to give info on how devices perform can be very helpful in giving people more idea on phones that they own or plan to buy.

Great post but the art of imitation is here to stay. It’s not going nowhere and I have said since 2012 that Samsung has a huge problem with imitating a little too much. Listen, in every form of technology where there’s a market for big revenue, expect knockoffs. Counterfeiting is a huge business and counterfeiters will find ways to capitalize off a product in heavy demand at the moment. So as companies find tricks to add to their product to prevent such an occurrence, counterfeiters will find a viable option to work around this problem and still profit big.

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