Friday, 24 March, 2023

Geekbench bans 4 generations of Galaxy S smartphones in response to app throttling

<p>Samsung&rsquo;s Game Optimizing Service has caused throttling in many common apps like Twitter, Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, and many more. After internal testing, benchmarking tool Geekbench has found that phones released after Galaxy S10 have this issue and proceeded to ban four generations of Galaxy S series smartphones over benchmark manipulation. As a result of this ban, users of Geekbench will not be able to see Samsung&rsquo;s phones on its leaderboard.</p>