Nearly All Mobile Device Makers Cheat on Benchmarks, Except Apple and Motorola

[opinio]

Samsung cheating!! I can't believe it.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

What about Nokia?

And are there any Russian or Middle-Eastern manufacturers?

I'm curious how this relates culturally.

Windows Phone was fast on a single core CPU from 2010. I don't think they need to cheat

 

[Elit3]

Also important to note that Nvidia doesn't. They don't because they've had a decade of being criticized (like AMD) for optimizing drivers to graphics benchmarks.

And Google!

 

[Tech198]

Oh man

Ok, who's thw wise guy who 'snitched' ???

There is no cheating involved here, move all.

... Actually there is, but you gotta 'play by the rules' to succeed.. Cheaters never prosper.

I can't beleive mobile manufacures would actually do this. Kinda funny to see it's only Apple left.

Maybe all manufactures decided to get mad at the same time??

 

[unplugme71]

Because if everything else is the same or extremely similar, why would you pay more for something slightly slower.

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Except that's not what the article is about, it's not about the apps on Windows/iOS/Android. It's about Android manufactures (hence the title "They're Almost All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks) artificially increasing benchmarks (and most importantly ones that are designed to mimic real world usage, not just "how fast can this chip theoretically go") which ends up misleading a consumer. So I'd make the same point again.

Who would willingly pay for something that's extremely similar to other options (battery life/apps/camera etc) for something that's slower? Clearly there's value in cheating, otherwise it wouldn't be worth the effort.

because it matches your style, ecosystem, etc.. not everything is about speed

 

[hchung]

So, all the Asian manufacturers are corrupt, and all the American ones are clean.

What about Nokia?

And are there any Russian or Middle-Eastern manufacturers?

I'm curious how this relates culturally.

Not enough review units from enough cultures are represented, so there's simply not enough data to analyze. Anandtech only tested the devices they have on hand for review.

Korean and Taiwanese manufacturers cheated.

There arn't any Japanese-made (Sharp, Sony, Toshiba, etc) or Chinese-made (ZTE, Huawei, etc) units tested, so you can't generalize Asian manufacturers.
Anandtech also doesn't have Russian or Middle-Eastern manufacturers' handsets, so they wern't tested.

Also, Anandtech didn't test Motorola phones prior to the Moto X, so we don't know if they did such a thing before getting bought by Google either.

As for Nokia, they were not tested either. Probably because there might not even be any popular native benchmarks available to cheat on should they decide to.