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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Not mentioned but software plays a major role. All of the non-essentials are stripped out of the software. Also processes are killed if they consume too many resources.

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