The Pixel 8 needs to avoid the heat problems plaguing the iPhone 15

[AC News]

There are plenty of reasons a phone gets too hot. None of them are good reasons.

The Pixel 8 needs to avoid the heat problems plaguing the iPhone 15 : Read more

 

[Stanley Kubrick]

Thermal blah, blah, blah....
The SOC's are way too powerful for a cell phone! Done! Answered! Been like this for years!
GO and visit a server farm (if you can possibly get in) and you WILL WANT hearing protection AND a lightweight jacket! WHY you ask...because all the fans, and Air Conditioning keep the place cool/cold and VERY LOUD! Why you ask...because the CPU's in the servers GET HOT!
WOW! The smallest 1U server is about 200 times as large as the largest cell phone! The SOC's in some of these phones are nearly, or even more powerful than what is found in MANY servers!!!!
You want a FAST - COOL running phone - get a GAMING PHONE with built in water cooling/and or little fans that run constantly just to keep the thing from burning the skin off your hands!
This isn't rocket science people....it's computer science!

 

[Lestat1886]

It is not a widespread issue, it will probably get fixed by a software update and I don’t see how the phone is incredibly thin as it is as thin a most other phones out there! AC should stick to what it knows best

 

[mustang7757]

Pixels been having this issue since the pixel 6 series so yes they need to watch this more than the iPhones do.

 

[Jimv1983]

It is not a widespread issue, it will probably get fixed by a software update and I don’t see how the phone is incredibly thin as it is as thin a most other phones out there! AC should stick to what it knows best

Software updates can't really fix the underlying cause. This is a hardware issue. The best a software update can do to make any noticeable difference is reduce performance.

 

[mustang7757]

Software updates can't really fix the underlying cause. This is a hardware issue. The best a software update can do to make any noticeable difference is reduce performance.

I agree with you but the iPhone has a way better chip than what the pixel will bring out so Apple could afford to throttle the chip a little where the pixel chip will see a bigger difference if it has to do that.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

It is not a widespread issue, it will probably get fixed by a software update and I don’t see how the phone is incredibly thin as it is as thin a most other phones out there! AC should stick to what it knows best

They ARE sticking to what they know best, iPhones.

 

[mrsean67]

Bravo Android Central! Now do the same story about Google"s terrible customer service.

 

[finbaar]

There's a race to push performance in devices so a manufacturer can claim to have the fastest phone EVER. Apple like to do this despite real world examples of that increased performance not existing. And it looks like they've really dropped the ball on the iPhone 15. Can this be fixed with a software update? Yes, of course it can. But how? Simply by throttling the performance so the chip does not get hot. The point being that even a throttled iPhone 15 will still have more than enough compute power for just about every single iPhone user as iPhone users don't "do" hi compute power tasks on their devices. And neither do Android users. So stop whinging about Tensor chips, which BTW beat all other SoCs in video rendering,

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

There's a race to push performance in devices so a manufacturer can claim to have the fastest phone EVER. Apple like to do this despite real world examples of that increased performance not existing. And it looks like they've really dropped the ball on the iPhone 15. Can this be fixed with a software update? Yes, of course it can. But how? Simply by throttling the performance so the chip does not get hot. The point being that even a throttled iPhone 15 will still have more than enough compute power for just about every single iPhone user as iPhone users don't "do" hi compute power tasks on their devices. And neither do Android users. So stop whinging about Tensor chips, which BTW beat all other SoCs in video rendering,

It's a bit weird to claim phone users don't do compute heavy tasks, and then call out video rendering on the Tenxynos.

I'm also guessing you didn't see those demos of the iPhone 15 running Resident Evil 4 remake/Village?