- Samsung found itself in trouble a few years ago for throttling phone performance when certain games were running.
- The company has already faced legal challenges over the throttling, including a class-action lawsuit.
- Now the Korea Fair Trade Commission is getting involved, issuing Samsung what amounts to a multi-million-dollar fine.
Have you ever felt like your new smartphone didn’t live up to expectations? Manufacturers sure seem to promise the moon with each new generation, and inevitably, not everything that’s being hyped is going to nail the landing. And while that’s far from uncommon, how often is it that we actually see a phone maker experience consequences for over-selling a device? That’s a far rarer occurrence, but one we’re actually seeing play out now for Samsung.
Today’s story actually got started a few years ago, with one of those scandals that seems to keep popping back up over and over: chip throttling and game performance. Sometimes, that’s a case of a company trying to inflate benchmark figures, but this one was actually the opposite. Back during the era of the Galaxy S22, Samsung found itself in the hot seat for limiting performance in order to avoid overheating.