Martin
Cadet
Asian smartphone developers such as HTC and Samsung, among others, have been caught tricking their customers. By manipulating their phones to run benchmark tests differently from the normal usage their phones show better performance than the phone is actually capable of putting out.
The scam or trickery (whatever you want to call it) was discovered by a user on twitter and investigated by the tech-related site AnandTech.
Link: www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-benchmarks
What are your thoughts? It's hardly controversial in the sense that we didn't know companies like to exaggerate their marketing, but still. When big names in the industry like Samsung, Asus and HTC are thrown around it get's a bit frightening.