How Samsung Rigged Its New Smartphone To Seem Faster Than It Actually Is

View this email online | Add newsletter@businessinsider.com to your address book

		Home Tech Finance Markets Politics Strategy Entertainment Advertising Retail Sports Life Tuesday, October 1, 2013 How Samsung Rigged Its New Smartphone To Seem Faster Than It Actually Is Samsung felt a lot of heat today after Ars Technica discovered it was juicing the way it reports the speed of its latest smartphone, the Galaxy Note 3. In fact, Samsung was able to make it look like the Note 3 was up to 20% faster than it actually is. Without getting too wonky, Samsung seems to have tricked an app that tests smartphone performance into giving the Galaxy Note 3 a better score. Ars Technica figured out how to truly test the Note 3's speed. The real results are below. Pay attention to the speed test result labeled "without booster" for a more accurate idea of how fast the Galaxy Note 3 is. Read » Also On Tech Today: Windows Phone Nearly Doubled Its Share Of The Lucrative European Market Q&A: Facebook's Deb Liu Tells Us Who's Winning When It Comes To App Downloads Advertisement CHART OF THE DAY: BlackBerry's Dwindling Smartphone Shipments CHART OF THE DAY: Twitter Is Still Very Small CHART OF THE DAY: The Reason 15% Of Americans Don't Use The Internet Share this: Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: ipat39@gmail.com Change Your Email Address | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to the Tech RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

If you believe this has been sent to you in error, please safely unsubscribe.