On March 5, digital blogger @i Ice Universe said that due to the riot operation of GOS, the benchmark platform GeekBench officially announced the cancellation of the running score of S10, S20, S21 and S22 series flagship mobile phones.
Many people may not know what GOS is, here is a brief introduction. Recently, some professionals broke the news that Samsung has developed a built-in application called GOS, which is to limit the performance of certain applications, and listed more than 10,000 restricted applications.
In fact, whether it is Android or iOS, this phenomenon is common, and it is generally called "performance scheduling policy" in China. The role of this policy is to prevent the performance release from being too strong, resulting in the heating and power consumption of the mobile phone. In the past two years, the mobile phone CPU generally has the problem of heat and power consumption, take Xiaomi, last year, many models of heating was serious, and finally Xiaomi launched miUI 12.5 enhanced version, changing the performance schedule, and the heat generation situation was greatly reduced.
Xiaomi has always pursued cost performance, and heat dissipation is probably the best in conventional flagships, which will still happen, not to mention the products of other mobile phone manufacturers. Samsung and Apple's flagship machines are biased towards the business type, so the heat dissipation module has not been the focus, and the processor heating and frequency reduction are more serious. It may be that with this situation in mind, Samsung will launch GOS to limit the performance release of the chip.
However, Samsung's restrictions may be too serious, resulting in a situation where the mobile phone running score and the daily application do not match at all, which is obviously a high score and low energy. For many users, it may be preferable to endure high power consumption and hot hands than a stronger performance release.
Now Samsung needs to think about how to solve the problem and win back the trust of consumers. Xiao Lei believes that the processor heats up, the power consumption is too high, and the heat dissipation is too tight is an objective fact, and the performance scheduling of the limited process must be done, but the choice should be handed over to the user.
Samsung can add several gradients of processor frequency options to the settings, allowing users to adjust the frequency according to their own needs, even if the phone is hot, it is also the user's own choice, and in Android phones, they are difficult to find a better choice.
Now that the running score of the S series flagship machine has been completely deleted, it is a huge blow to Samsung's reputation, and Samsung urgently needs to discuss a solution with GeekBench on how to get the S series flagship running score back online to avoid a more serious impact.