OnePlus wants to stick a tiny air conditioner on the back of its gaming phone - Yanko Design
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Apple's MagSafe, which returned on the iPhone 12 in 2020, turned the back of the phone into prime real estate. Wallets stuck on first, then grips, battery packs, and tripods (we rounded up the early MagSafe accessory wave in 2021), with Qi2 later pulling Android into the same magnetic party. The next resident, apparently, is
  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I bought a watercooler version that was originally designed for a phone. It works pretty well, but mine is running at 100W.

    I put it on the heatpipes for my laptop running local LLMs.

  • scibra122@piefed.socialEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Seems gimmicky. A Peltier device running at less than 3.5W (because that is shared with the fan and status LED) is probably only moving 3.5W of heat off the phone body, and then the fan appears to be blowing that heat right back onto the phone body. Plus, if you use this with the magnet pad, you probably aren’t even making good thermal contact with the phone body in the first place. Probably not a coincidence that the press release of an article spends all its time on how little power it draws and how tasteful the LED is without any mention of temperature impacts