Samsung has a serious problem this year. The South Korean company made its smartphones slower on purpose. Now it has been announced that the new Galaxy Tab S8 tablets are also affected. This now leads to consequences.

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Geekbench throws out new Samsung tablets

It couldn’t be any better for Samsung at the moment. The Galaxy S22 smartphones and Galaxy Tab S8 tablets are selling very well. A wrong decision still weighs heavily on the new products. The company has decided to throttle the performance of smartphones via the “Game Optimizing Service”. When that came out, Samsung acted quickly and released an update for the Galaxy S22 smartphones. Since the new Galaxy Tab S8 tablets are also affected, further consequences will now follow. the popular benchmark Geekbench has removed all the new tablets:

The colleagues from AndroidPolice discovered that the Galaxy Tab S8 is also based on a App identification decides how much power is made available. As with smartphones, the tablet’s full performance is only available in certain situations, such as in the benchmark, while it is reduced in games where it is also needed. In the end, you have shown a high performance on paper, but you can never actually call it off. That’s why an investigation is currently underway against Samsung in its home country.

What makes the new Samsung tablets so special:

Is there a software update like the Galaxy S22?

Samsung has just released an update for the Galaxy S22 smartphones and introduced the “Game Performance Management Mode” there. So you can decide for yourself whether the throttle is used or stop. If it is not activated, this can lead to higher heat generation and increased energy consumption. One can assume that Samsung will also release a similar update for the Galaxy Tab S8 tablets. This should solve the problem from a purely technical point of view, but the trust of the users was clearly abused here. From now on, Samsung will take a much closer look.

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