Gadgetory

a story recently discussed with the cheddar News team their team who broadcasts tech and business news they streamed from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange it would seem there's another round of companies trying to juice their benchmark scores for those of you who follow our channel you're probably well familiar with benchmarks are these little apps you run from your phone which try and judge the overall performance of different handsets a benchmarking Apple run your phone through a series of tests at the completion of which you'll receive some kind of relative score you can compare with other devices to see who has the bigger team who has the more powerful phone and in the past a number of companies have been caught juicing those benchmark scores going about your daily activities it's pretty rare the times you'll need to tap into the full processing power of a modern smartphone when you go about checking your email or reading your Twitter you don't really need all of that power most modern smartphones will engage in some kind of behavior to scale back and also help preserve battery life while also keeping the phone running cooler so what does it mean to juice a benchmark well those benchmarking apps are very limited run scenarios it's really unlikely you're going to be tapping into that apt multiple times during one day or over successive days and you run the test you get your score you get on with your life for companies trying to make their product look as powerful as possible however we do find little pieces of code that when a benchmarking app is identified on your device when it's being run that the phone will tap into a reserve of power really launching into the fastest possible clock speeds all cores on board in a way that users typically won't be able to access that kind of power in their own daily activity you fire up the benchmark and the phone will run as hot as it possibly can but then you flip over into something like trying to shoot uhe video from a camera or playing a really graphics-intensive game and you probably won't be able to utilize all of those resources for your own activities smartphone manufacturer gets that great score then a bunch of bloggers run off to write stories about what the most powerful devices are and somehow that translates into a word of mouth or perception of a product being really killer and that should equal more sales the two companies on the hook right now my 2 and 1 plus definitely frustrating for one plus here in the United States is this is a company that has built its reputation through word of mouth and through advertising really bold statements never settling flagship killer and has been criticized about performance in the past especially in terms of things like RAM management on a personal note every time one of these stories breaks it just serves as an opportunity and reminder that we probably shouldn't be putting too much stock into smartphone performance as it pertains to synthetic benchmarks if you really like your phone should you like your phone less if another gadget outperforms it by 3% in some type of synthetic app is that really going to impact your Instagram usage but as it pertains these manufacturers in the fact that I would concern myself a power user for all of the low power modes that we have on our phones I kind of wish we had a user accessible super awesome mode I'm a grown-up I'm a big boy I know what's going on with my technology I make a conscious choice to say I need to run my phone as powerful as it can go fully realizing that it's going to have a drastically negative impact on battery life I should be able to make that decision knowing that these gadgets can surge to a higher tier of performance there are times I wish I had a little like nice buttons like really kick in that turbo and get that compression going bad car metaphors we're talking about consumer electronics and of course we want to hear from you when one of these stories breaks how does it affect your perception of that manufacturer 1 plus a samsung how much do those scores really influence your purchasing decision strap is a comment down below this video i love getting into those kinds of conversation as always thank so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for more tech commentary videos like these and help us out with some sharing on your favorite social networks for pocket now i'm juan carlos back now some gadget guy on twitter and instagram and i will catch you all on the next video