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If You Owned the Samsung Galaxy S4, You're Entitled to Some Cold, Hard Cash
We never thought we'd be writing about the Samsung Galaxy S4 again — but Samsung has just settled a lawsuit over false benchmarks on the now six-year-old device. The lawsuit was settled for $13.4 million.
According to The Register, the lawsuit was first filed in November 2014 by Daniel Norcia, after it was found that Samsung was artificially inflating benchmark scores by introducing code that detected when benchmarks were running and then overclocking the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor speed to 532MHz, instead of the 480MHz that the processor normally ran at.
Samsung never denied that it inflated benchmark scores, instead taking a different approach. The company argued that under California law, it was not "legally obliged" to disclose that the phone was set up to inflate scores. Instead, the company argued that only security issues and data breaches need to be disclosed to the public. The case made its way all the way up to the Supreme Court, and was set to go to trial before Samsung finally settled for $13.4 million.
As part of the settlement, Samsung has agreed not to inflate software that artificially increases benchmark tests — but interestingly, it only agreed to do so until 2024. Not only that, but the company is not required to admit any wrongdoing.
Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/samsung-galaxy-s4-benchmark-inflation-settlement/
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 04 2019, @08:00PM
What do you mean owned? Mine's still my primary phone. Wouldn't think it could run a Pie version of LineageOS from its age but it absolutely can without batting an eye.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.