Tuesday's news that the Galaxy Note 3 was found artificially increasing its own benchmark scores caused a bit of a stir. There's no question that Note 3 is one of the most powerful phablets on the market, so why cheat? It turns out that Samsung is just keeping up with its competition. According to a report by AnandTech , HTC, LG and Asus have each been implementing similar CPU optimization in their own smartphones, and nearly all Android OEMs have been complicit in the practice at some point over the past few years.
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Samsung isn’t the only smartphone maker boosting benchmark scores