This time last year the Samsung Galaxy S4 was making its way out into the hands of reviewers and while it didn’t look different and had similar specs to other handsets on the market, it did come out well in benchmarks. Later on we found that this was due to a code that Samsung had put in that forced the CPU to maximum speed in benchmark activity. This meant that it artificially boosted the benchmark numbers.
Of course this couldn’t lie about the powerful hardware; rather it just gave it a harder push than normal. This could be considered as being cheating by Samsung, but really benchmarks don’t matter all that much and the incident was forgotten about.
But with it came change thanks to the benchmark results and developers looking into the code. The KitKat update heading to the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has had the coding removed that boosts the benchmark, so that the benchmarking tests will be natural.
This doesn’t make a blind bit of difference to anyone who owns the handset as they will not perform any different. But it may be that Samsung have been taught a lesson after they were caught cheating in class tests so to speak. That’s of course providing they took it out of the Samsung Galaxy S5 too, unless they left it in to make the handset look better in benchmarks?
