Samsung button gives instant power boost for ‘most optimized experience possible’ – but beware downside before trying it
A LITTLE-KNOWN Samsung feature can optimize the gaming experience on your mobile devices.
The Game Booster tool comes built-in on Galaxy phones and tablets and is designed with mobile game fanatics in mind.
The app monitors how a game runs on your device and automatically adjusts settings to make the experience smoother.
Game Booster monitors and automatically adjusts memory usage and temperature.
You can opt to hide notifications and disable features like Bixby, Samsung’s virtual assistant, to keep your attention trained on your game.
Game Booster is easy to access. While playing a game, simply swipe up if in portrait mode or swipe left in landscape mode.
Next, tap the Game Booster icon, which appears as a tiny video game controller in the lower right-hand corner.
A landing screen will appear. Tap “Start” to activate the feature and you will return to your game.
You can also change the way you use the feature in the Gaming Hub application.
Tap the “More” menu at the upper right corner and navigate to “Game Booster” before selecting “Game optimization.”
This will reveal a host of pre-programmed settings tailored to different user preferences.
However, it also reveals the downside to using the feature – Game Booster’s significant battery consumption.
The “Standard” mode promises “an excellent balance between game performance and battery usage.”
But the “Performance” mode – the version tailored to “the most gaming experience possible” – comes with a disclaimer that it may drain power.
Users looking to conserve energy can toggle on “Battery saver” mode, which limits performance on some functions while maximizing battery usage during gameplay.
Another feature that goes hand-in-hand with Game Booster is a pop-up panel that provides quick access for up to four apps.
To customize the panel, tap the three dots that appear next to the app icons and make your selections.
The Game Booster tab also displays information like battery life, memory usage and phone temperature.
Samsung – a brief history
Here's what you need to know...
- Samsung is a major South Korean company made up of many businesses that operate globally
- It’s known locally as a “chaebol”, which means “business conglomerate”
- It was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company
- But over several decades, it branched out into food processing, insurance, textiles and retail
- It wasn’t until the late 1960s when Samsung entered the electronics industry – for which it’s best known in the West today
- It also launched businesses in construction and shipbuilding in the 1970s
- Today, Samsung’s most important sources of income are its smartphones and computer chips
- The firm accounts for around a fifth of South Korea’s total exports, and roughly 17% of the country’s GDP
- More than 270,000 staff are employed by Samsung globally
- And in 2023, Samsung Electronics turned over the equivalent of $194 billion in revenue
Samsung consistently ranks as the largest phone manufacturer in the world.
The company has roots in South Korea and continuously rolls out new features tailored to the county’s gaming culture.
The Gaming Hub feature, for instance, rolled out to all Samsung Smart TVs in 2022.
Samsung promised the feature would bring together its expertise in software and hardware “for an optimal gaming experience.”