UL Delists Huawei Phones for Artificially Boosting Benchmark Scores

Huawei's new phones have been delisted from UL's best smartphones list after the company (maker of the 3DMark mobile benchmark) found out from an independent test performed by Anandtech that the Chinese company is trying to boost the scores for its new line of smartphones.

As specified in UL's statement, the delisted Huawei models are the P20 Pro, the Nova 3, the Honor Play, and the P20, the last one after getting news of AnandTech's report.

More precisely, according to Anandtech's report, the Huawei Honor Play smartphone model presented bizarre benchmark results during performance and power testing when compared to other models tested earlier this year.

According to their tests, the Honor Play might have a built-in benchmark mode detec... (read more)

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