OnePlus 9 just got delisted from Geekbench — and OnePlus responds

OnePlus 9 merely got delisted from Geekbench — and OnePlus responds

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OnePlus has stirred up a lot of news in 2021. From several product announcements to a dorsum-end merger with Oppo, the company has had a lot of attending this year. But a very contempo report has shone light on some potential shady practices with how the OnePlus ix Pro handles applications.

In the report, Anandtech notes some strange beliefs while running a browser benchmark, which resulted in a very low issue for a Snapdragon 888. This led to diving deeper into what the phone was doing, and Anandtech constitute what appears to exist some kind of blacklist for certain apps where they're non allowed to access the 888's total power.

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Many popular apps, including the Office suite, Google apps, and many others, were blocked from using the processor's bigger cores. However, benchmark apps (similar Geekbench) are patently excluded from this blacklist, allowing it full access to the Snapdragon 888. It's because of this that Geekbench has delisted the OnePlus nine and OnePlus ix Pro from its chart. You can read the statement below.

Information technology's disappointing to encounter OnePlus handsets making operation decisions based on awarding identifiers rather than application behavior. Nosotros view this equally a form of benchmark manipulation. We've delisted the OnePlus nine and OnePlus 9 Pro from our Android Benchmark nautical chart. https://t.co/G40wmWeg7oJuly 6, 2021

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It remains unknown if OnePlus did this for battery optimization purposes, though that'due south the going theory. OnePlus has previously done some other things in its OxygenOS skin in the proper noun of improving battery life, sometimes to the detriment of the user experience.

We reached out to OnePlus for comment, and here's the response nosotros received.

"Our superlative priority is always delivering a great user experience with our products, based in part on acting quickly on of import user feedback. Following the launch of the OnePlus ix and 9 Pro in March, some users told u.s.a. about some areas where nosotros could better the devices' bombardment life and heat management. As a result of this feedback, our R&D squad has been working over the past few months to optimize the devices' performance when using many of the near pop apps, including Chrome, by matching the app'south processor requirements with the most advisable power. This has helped to provide a smooth experience while reducing power consumption. While this may bear upon the devices' performance in some benchmarking apps, our focus as e'er is to do what we tin can to better the performance of the device for our users."

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