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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Just bc a smartphone has “massive computing power” doesn’t mean computers don’t have more computing power. If a smartphone were equivalent to a modern computer it would probably need a cooling fan also.

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