I actually find this accusation believable. LG and Samsung are absolutely fierce competitors with each other in Korea, and in general, and past experience has shown they are not above resorting to dirty tricks to gain an advantage. Dirty tricks like designing phones to run in a special high power consumption overclocked mode when they detect certain benchmarks are being run, delivering performance that is not comparable to what the end user will see. Stuff like employing people to surf forums and review sites and write glowing reviews and comments about their products while denigrating their competitor’s. So, attempting to make their competitor’s products look bad on the showroom floor would not be completely out of character.
“I actually find this accusation believable. LG and Samsung are absolutely fierce competitors with each other in Korea,”
Fist fights in the streets between corporate offices by ninja clad workers.