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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My Flip 3 gets hot (and goes into thermal control by stopping processes and eventually shutting down when running Android auto (as does a lot of people’s I hear) and all my phones have gotten very warm when playing some games on them.

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