Google’s Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro launched to the public just over a week ago, but a controversy has been stirred up around benchmark apps having been blocked via the Play Store ahead of launch.

Google confirms it blocks benchmarks on all Pixel phones as a standard practice. The company has admitted to blocking Play Store downloads of benchmarking apps on the Pixel 8 series during the review ...

Google is “very comfortable” with Tensor chips not winning benchmarks, a company executive said. The director said Google benchmarks software workloads that will actually run on Pixel phones. Now, ...

Google launched the Pixel 8 series smartphones earlier this month. Both devices are available for purchase across the world. The smartphones are powered by a Tensor G3 processor coupled with up to ...

Google kept some of the popular benchmarking apps blocked on the Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro until they became publicly available. It was an effort to avoid revealing hardware information prior ...

Google has reportedly blocked users from installing benchmark apps on their Pixel 8 and 8 Pro smartphones. This was uncovered by Sanjiv of Notebookcheck, who found that Google has prevented users from ...

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