Often, just a little bit of usage pushes our phones into cool-down mode, dimming the screen and slowing the device. Judging from online searches, many of you.
In context: We’ve noticed a burning sensation in our pockets lately. Not the bite of inflation, but an actual heat source coming from our phones. Maybe it is 5G, maybe it is a design decision made by Apple, or by TSMC, whatever the reason, our smartphone runs hot.
Often, just a little bit of usage pushes our phones into cool-down mode, dimming the screen and slowing the device. Judging from online searches, many of you have probably noticed this as well. We tend to spend a lot of time and attention to the fans in laptop computers, and for example, how Apple’s M-series processors are so efficient that the Air models do not need to use fans. Heat is a real issue, just one that we have resigned ourselves to coping with rather than solving.
As much as chip and device makers contort themselves to mitigate these heat issues, at heart the reality is that cooling technology has not changed in 40+ years.
