Global testing lab with over 100 years experience in product safety testing and certification has removed two OPPO smartphones from its Best Smarthone list after finding the phones having broken the company’s rule governing benchmark detection and optimisation.
The OPPO Find X and F7 were found to be producing artificially high and misleading scores when tested by Tech2 (tech blog), UL has clear rules for manufacturers that govern how a platform can interact with its benchmarking software. After reviewing the benchmark results from the site, UL conducted its own testing and found similar discrepancies and have since delist the affected models and removed them from their performance rankings.
OPPO has since responded “OPPO smartphones use different strategies to balance power and performance for common scenarios and mainstream application software.
“To avoid unknown third-party applications maliciously consuming system resources, which may cause overheating and a significant drop in battery life, OPPO rejects unreasonable system resource requests to keep the phone’s power consumption and temperature within an appropriate range.“
“We are transparent with the fact our system optimization strategy includes application software package name detection. However, package name detection is only one aspect of a multi-dimensional system optimization strategy that also detects frame rate, touch operations, file read/write operations, sound play, network usage, power consumption, temperature, and real-time CPU/GPU load.
“OPPO appreciates UL Benchmark’s consideration in its benchmark tests and values its handset performance test results. We also respect the principles and standards upheld by UL Benchmarks in its performance tests.
“We have decided to cancel the package name detection for benchmark utilities. In future, system resources will be allocated solely based on application request. We will also grant users access to the Performance Mode.
“We sincerely appreciate the support from UL Benchmark and friends in the media with respect to benchmarking. Ultimately, together we believe we can deliver a better experience to users.”
The reply is for anyone to make their own conclusion, however UL has stated that it will continue to keep the two models delisted and has also mentioned that the two parties are in discussion. It needs to be brought up that, Huawei was also caught manipulating the scores just a month ago.
