Eli5: Why do smartphones not need cooling fans like other computers do?

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Everybody always talks about the massive computing power of smartphones (movies love the moon mission comparison) but still my phone rarely gets hot. (Only when I use it while charging sometimes)

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They dont use alot of power, so they dont make alot of heat. Any heat they do make gets lost threw the phone’s body with the surrounding air.

Try having your phone do something heavy and put it in your pocket for a while, it gets hot! Not alot of surrounding air in your pocket.

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