TL;DR
- Nubia’s REDMAGIC 11 Pro phones were spotted dialing up performance in an apparent attempt to boost benchmark ratings.
- UL Solutions subsequently delisted the phones for 3DMark rule violations.
- In a series of new statements, Nubia defends the ethicality of its practices, while UL Solutions further details its findings.
Most of the modern smartphone industry has blessedly moved on from the numbers games that plagued its early days, when manufacturers would hype up their phones with the highest megapixel cameras, or most CPU cores. And while we’re much more focused on features and the experience today, benchmark numbers still manage to attract attention — especially when we’re dealing with performance-geared gaming phones. That’s tempted more than one company to game the system by artificially boosting those benchmark results, and today we’ve got some updates to share on the latest scandal to hit.
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