When the Android 4.4 update arrives on popular phones like the Samsung Galaxy S 4 and Galaxy Note 3, people will be pleased about the small improvements behind the scenes and the new UI features available in the update. One feature that won't get as much attention outside of a few obsessive tech users is that Samsung has finally stopped rigging its phones to turn in higher than normal benchmark scores.
You may recall that Samsung was found to send the phone into unrealistic states in order to make its benchmark scores go higher. The company would set all of the cores in the device at their maximum speeds only when it detected that a benchmark app was open, which gave the device high scores that could never be replicated in normal conditions, and gave a false sense that Samsung products were significantly more powerful than rivals.
Ars Technica has compared both the Galaxy S 4 and Note 3 under Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and Android 4.4 KitKat. After running tests on both devices to see how they performed pre-and-post-KitKat, the site found that Samsung no longer boosts its benchmarks scores. Though people often put too much stock in benchmarks, it's good to know that Samsung is being more honest in its handling for the people who do care about such things. Charts and a full breakdown are available at the link below.
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