OnePlus says it throttled apps to improve battery life
The Hindu
The slowdown was noted in most apps in Google’s Play store, including Google’s app suite, Microsoft’s Office apps, all popular social media apps, and browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus is said to have manipulated key benchmarks and throttled some apps on its 9 Pro model by “blacklisting popular applications away from its fastest cores and causing a slowdown in typical workloads including web browsing”, according to tech website Anandtech. (Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click to subscribe for free.) The “seemingly inexplicable” slow browser benchmark figures which were not in line with any other Snapdragon 888 device in the market, and received only a fraction of the scores and performances of other devices, the tech website said in a post.More Related News
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