News Summary

• A South Korean court has ordered Samsung to pay compensation to 1,882 Galaxy S22 owners who sued over the company’s hidden Game Optimization Service feature.
• The goal of the feature was to throttle the performance of the phone when used during heavy tasks.
• This would prevent the phone from getting too hot, especially during intensive use like gaming.
• While it throttled games and apps, it did not throttle benchmark tools like Geekbench.
• This led to a discrepancy in advertised performance versus real-world performance.