In recent years we have seen huge advances in smartphones cameras, in His brilliant screenshis fast charge, Your powerand what they manage to do thanks to the progress that artificial intelligence has brought to the sector (now, not when it began to promote itself eight years ago). And yet, in a summer as hot as we are happening, what I miss most is being able to take advantage of all those functions. Because as temperatures are taking place since May in Andalusia, the reality is that I can’t.
The problem. When the heat arrives, the girls fall in love and Solar panels have a fatal. It is also the worst enemy of modern smartphone, whose current functioning completely modifies. With high ambient temperature, smartphone begin to suffer thermal strangulation or Thermal Throttling. It is a technique that reduces the performance of the device so that it does not continue to warm up. What do we notice? In which everything is slow, getting to cause Lag
and slowdown accused even in high -end mobiles that do not suffer with normal ambient temperatures even when we demand a lot.
It is also common for smartphones to begin to deactivate functions that require greater consumption and therefore heating, such as high rates of soda (90 Hz, 120 Hz 0 more), fast charge or high brightness on the screens. The latter is especially unfortunate, because it is on sunny summer days (when we have more hours of sunshine) when we need the record shine peaks that manufacturers promote with each recent launch.
The situation on extreme heat days. The last great heat of these weeks has been the perfect example of how smartphones suffer. In an encounter with friends in the field where there were smartphones of several major brands, the smartphones became unusable in the hottest hours.
Fully attenuated and impossible screens to see the sun, abysmal performance, extremely hot bodies and worrying warnings of two types: impossibility of continuing to load to protect the battery, and complete smartphones blockages with a temperature warning as The one Apple details on its website. The first caused that we had to wait until sunset to load the smartphones (with the consequent complete download of several of them for hours) every day.
The second, even losing calls: c on the very hot mobile, a relative called me, and the call was abruptly cut by showing a notice like the next.
The situation is also improvable with more moderate temperatures. A heat wave in Andalusia is an exceptional situation and that is not lived in countless territories. However, in May, I was at an outdoor wedding about 25 degrees of temperature and decided to take photos and videos with an iPhone 16 Pro and a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. The iPhone responded with Throttling, strongly attenuating the screen and slowing down any interaction with the interface. The Ultra Galaxy S25 responded something better, without being slow but also presenting little shine in its panel.
The situation was paradoxical: I was using two of the smartphone with the best camera in the market, but I could barely record and take pictures, for the slowness with which they worked and because I almost did not see what I was shooting. Not because of the reflexes of the sun, but because of the little maximum shine of the screens once the terminals felt some heat. Another similar situation, changing camera for GPS, is what is lived in cars in summer: the mobile attenuates its screen and there are cases in which it costs to see the navigation interface, especially if at the same time we are carrying the terminal. And it is not trivial, we load them using the GPS because the consumption shoots and on a long trip the battery does not endure.
Keys to protect them from heat. The solutions we have as users are, unfortunately, limited. But There are things we can do. For example, minimize its use in the sun. In summer, as we pointed out, it will be difficult, but there will be multiple situations in which we can place ourselves in the shade. Or what is easier: always leave the mobile in the shade, instead of at very hot points from a place in the sun, on the beach or in the car. They are not few occasions in which I have remembered acquaintances that his mobile would be burning because they had forgotten the sun.
We can reduce camera use, especially when necessary. Sometimes, doing tourism, we tend to leave the screen on with the camera in use, preparing for a shot that sometimes does not arrive. It is in those situations when the terminal turns off until we have a shot to shoot can save a lot of heat.
House and car tricks. My maximum advice is to use the terminal as GPS subject with a support for air conditioning ventilation grilles, so that it will be cool. It will load at normal speed and work as a browser without major problem. It is a advice that applies even if we use something like Carplay or Android Auto, as the vehicle will continue to resort to the terminal GPS, with the consequent heating.
At home, two other tips that I have put into practice: use Cooling with integrated fan or even Cold accumulators covered with a trap that also greatly reduces the temperature of the smartphone when they come into contact with them.
Thus they are trying to mitigate the problem. Manufacturers lead a lifetime fighting heat. The problem is that, at the same time, they are integrating components that, although they are more efficient than in previous generations, also have higher final consumption, especially when we think that more and more cameras, more bright screens and chips capable of Move AAA games (although The best is pulling streaming).
He Xiaomi 15 Ultrafor example, he convinced us for how his cooling system with Steam camera three -dimensional manages to tame the Snapdragon 8 elite, something that the Galaxy S25 Ultra He achieved to a lesser extent with a similar but less ambitious system (although greater than that of his predecessor).
The great absent in these modern systems is Apple. The Cupertino company promised that with the passage to the titanium framework would improve the dissipation of its terminals, something that it also wanted to improve later with the use of graphite. Actually, the problems have not been resolved to the necessary extent. And therefore, According to reliable rumors, The iPhone 17 will release a steam camera.
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