Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Samsung Smartphone Scandal: Explained”.
Samsung has just been found guilty of artificially inflating the performance of their smartphones, so it’s time to break down what is happening. Why samsung is doing it, how it’s a problem, why it’s even more widespread than you think and then finally, how to solve it? So smartphones are getting more and more powerful each year right, we’re annually promised a 20 to 30 performance improvement by manufacturers and chip makers and there’s no two ways about it. This is a big part of why people upgrade, but it is also kind of a lie. What’S just been discovered on, samsung phones is a piece of software known as the game optimizing service or boss, which is completely hidden. It runs in the background to limit the performance of many apps and games. That’S already pretty strange, but it gets worse when you realize that the apps that have not had their performance capped are benchmarking apps, the apps that people use to to reassure them that their phone is in fact astoundingly powerful.
Now before i explain why this is such a problem, it’s worth understanding why exactly samsung is doing it see. Mobile phones have constraints, there’s only so much of a cooling mechanism you can fit in there and there’s only so much of a battery you can fit in there, and so, while phone chipsets are getting more and more powerful each year, qualcomm isn’t lying when they say That, in terms of peak performance, their latest snapdragon, 8 gen 1 is 30 faster than their last chip. What they’re not telling you is that the cooling mechanisms and the battery sizes in most phones, they aren’t able to keep parity with that improvement.
If you just let a modern flagship chip run at full speed in a normal smartphone, it would not just suck your battery dry but would also get so hot that, after just a few minutes, would then have to drop its performance anyways to stop it from damaging Itself, so, if you’re in the middle of a game, while this was happening, you might well notice a sudden drop in frame rate because of this not ideal, and so this is where samsung’s game optimizing service comes in. It regulates performance, basically preventing the chip ever reaching its full power, which, while commendable in that it’s only trying to protect the user, to make sure that they never experience that sudden jitteriness or their battery life being zapped out of existence. I can’t help but feel like. It is also a little disingenuous because the implication of it is that all those numbers that were being quoted all the time like samsung telling us how much faster one phone is versus its predecessor chipmakers, telling us how their new architecture is, bringing us revolutionary improvements and Benchmarking apps telling us that we’re in the top one percent of all smartphones in terms of power, it makes them all meaningless, you’ve paid for the hardware in your phone and so not being given the choice to use it properly and not being given the correct calling Mechanisms for it to run as advertised. That is an issue not to mention it would be one thing if samsung had limited performance of all apps, but for them to then give exemptions to benchmarking apps to to make people think that they have a chart-topping device. Only to then curb the performance when they think users won’t notice. That is where it becomes a bit. Manipulative android police did some clever work on this, where they realized that if they re-labeled the geekbench benchmark as a normal game, genshin impact such that the phone didn’t realize it was benchmarking and so carried on limiting performance like it does with other apps, then the actual Score that came from this benchmark was 24 lower than when it recognized it.
Clearly, even geekbench thought it was a bit cheeky as they’ve now permanently, de-listed samsung devices from using their service basically saying samsung has cheated their scores, will no longer count. Here’S the thing, though, it’s not just samsung apple, had some big time trouble a few years ago for slowing down iphones to protect battery life, and they even had a 113 million dollar fine to pay for not communicating what they were doing to their customers. Oneplus was caught in the middle of last year, manipulating benchmark scores in almost the same way as samsung huawei was found, doing it on their mate 20. Pro xiaomi’s done.
It realme’s done it as a matter of fact, pretty much. Every smartphone company has done some sort of performance tweaking to limit the chip in normal apps and then push it to run at his best. Only when it’s being tested in benchmarking apps, it’s a pretty widespread problem, but i guess the most worrying part of it is that this issue, it’s not going to fix itself. It’S actually going to get worse.
If we don’t correct it think about it, chipmakers call comm and samsung being two of the main ones they’re going to keep pushing to try and hit their yearly peak performance improvements. They have to that’s their business model, but the physical space inside smartphones for cooling and bigger batteries that is not increasing at all. To accommodate it’s pretty normal for a new chip to be announced with, say a 20 efficiency improvement, meaning that for each unit of performance you get it consumes 20 less energy. But then the same chip will also often come with like a 30 higher peak performance, and while there is an overall improvement, it also means that, if you say push this new chip to its max, then it will in fact consume more power than the last chip.
When that one was at its max, and so if you wanted to keep your battery life, consistent, you’d actually have to use a lower percentage of the power available and at that point, you’re just paying extra for performance that you’re not able to access. Thankfully, all of this confusion actually leads us to a very clear conclusion, and if you are enjoying this video, then a sub to the channel would be optimal. Is the fact that samsung’s been using this game optimizing service, a problem? Yes, but you know, the ceo himself has publicly apologized and samsung has now issued a software update to the galaxy s 22 series to allow you to turn this optimization off. So is it all sorted, then? No, the main issue here is not really that all these companies are trying to silently stop the chips from overheating with software limitations. It’S more the fact that they have to do this in the first place.
This video is not me saying that samsung’s goss is not doing its job, because i mean, if you look at the amount of power drawn both with this optimization turned on purple and then again with it off blue. You can see that it is pretty much halving the power consumption, but what this video is me saying is that if samsung didn’t use this gauss, you would have a deeply poor user experience, and that is a problem. So, in order to actually fix it, i think one of two things need to happen.
One is on the manufacturer’s end if a manufacturer wants to use the fact that their phones are powered by a certain chip in their promotional material, and they want to boast about how fast that phone is because of it. Then i think there should be a minimum level of cooling that they have to include to allow that chip to sustain close to its peak level of performance. If their phones are not providing the environment that allows these chips to work as advertised, then they shouldn’t be able to claim that they’re being powered by these chips, because an average consumer is going to be misled and then the second thing is on the chipmaker’s end. Where really they shouldn’t be focusing so much on hitting levels of peak performance that they know, almost no phone will be able to sustain, but instead focusing on making a more battery efficient chip that can keep its temperatures under control if next year, qualcomm or samsung managed To release a chip that is all around just 30 more efficient, then even if they already bumped that peak performance by say 15 or so i would say that is a very good thing.
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