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  Members from the XDA have confirmed that   One Plus   and   Meizu   have been artificially boosting performance in their benchmark tests. One Plus had even accepted their mistake and has promises not to do this in the future. Given resistance from the community, we assumed that manufacturers valued their own community enough to avoid practices like this. It looks like One Plus and Meizu are unconcerned.   While testing the  OnePlus 3T ,  XDA  noticed that the Snapdragon 821 chip used was forced to run at a higher clockspeed whenever a benchmark app was detected by adding lines of code in their operating systems.  Assuming that One Plus was cheating on benchmark tests, XDA approached Primate Labs, the makers of the popular Geek-bench suite of benchmarks, for help.  Primate Labs discovered that the OnePlus 3T’s OS was identifying apps by name and modifying the speed governors accordingly. To overcom...

Google’s Now Launcher has been a staple of the Google Play Store for years. But according to a leaked email  obtained by  Android Police , Google will be removing the Now Launcher from the Play Store and ceasing major updates in the next few months. The email, reportedly sent to Android device manufacturers, explains that the Google Now features of the Now Launcher are being duplicated by the new Search Launcher Services, which device manufacturers can use to make their own launcher with Google Now capabilities. As a result, the Google Now Launcher will be removed from the app store on March 1st, and can no longer ship on new devices. The launcher is the app that Android uses to control the home screen and basic functions accessed from there. Android manufacturers like Samsung and LG are often guilty of shipping phones that have a bunch of bloatware to push Samsung apps, most heavily focused on the launcher. Although there are other third-party launchers that you can stil...