Motorola Moto X next-gen to feature a heat pipe for cooling

22 December, 2015
A shot of an early design prototype supposedly reveals the smartphone's internal structure.

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Anonymous, 22 Dec 2015@all commenters before me Why not combining heat pipe, hea... moreJust imagine the bulk of the phone and the sound coming out of fan due to the lack of space.

    AnonD-479443, 22 Dec 2015I'd just like to point out that even the newest iPhone - th... moreIPhones don't use Qualcomm SOCs they just use their modems and use custom a9 chips which are developed by Apple and manufactured by third manufacturers like Samsung and an other Chinese company.

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      • AnonD-411799
      • 2SS
      • 22 Dec 2015

      you require fan to blow the heat out. so this is going to fail. or will the new smartphones come with fans.?

        So even SD820 is goin to heat up? Or they dont want to take chance, so preparing for heating issue right from the beginning...

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          • 22 Dec 2015

          AnonD-479443, 22 Dec 2015I'd just like to point out that even the newest iPhone - th... moreYeah, modems, we are talking about SoCs here.

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            • pI}
            • 22 Dec 2015

            Apple's approach of slow and wide paid off, huh?

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              • RdB
              • 22 Dec 2015

              Anonymous, 22 Dec 2015#@$% is getting weird with these Qualcomm smartphones..Lets... moreI'd just like to point out that even the newest iPhone - the 6s - uses Qualcomm chips.

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                • Anonymous
                • tVn
                • 22 Dec 2015

                , not a good sign guys... maybe snapdragon 820 has heating issue?!

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                  • DarkReed
                  • 8%x
                  • 22 Dec 2015

                  Anonymous, 22 Dec 2015@all commenters before me Why not combining heat pipe, hea... moreBulgy Phones

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                    • Anonymous
                    • PA7
                    • 22 Dec 2015

                    @all commenters before me
                    Why not combining heat pipe, heatsink, water cooling, and fan?

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                      • Anonymous
                      • jgG
                      • 22 Dec 2015

                      I want a water cool system ;)

                        AnonD-442287, 22 Dec 2015soon we will get water-cooled cpu in our smartphones runnin... moreNot soon water cooling is already being used in some of Microsoft and Sony phones and also in surface book.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • tt1
                          • 22 Dec 2015

                          #@$% is getting weird with these Qualcomm smartphones..Lets get an iPhone instead..

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                            • AnonD-452580
                            • mIe
                            • 22 Dec 2015

                            Hopefully next one not to come with fan

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                              • AnonD-49170
                              • 0Uu
                              • 22 Dec 2015

                              I'm waiting for the next vendor whos going to associate the heat pipe with a cooling fan...

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                                • dasman
                                • Yc3
                                • 22 Dec 2015

                                Smartphones are really becoming the pocket PC.

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                                  • Hkt
                                  • 22 Dec 2015

                                  This feature will be very useful to those who play games, watch online videos,etc...
                                  Now a days heating issue is a very big problem for us...
                                  I think it will be useful for us...

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                                    • AnonD-442287
                                    • uC8
                                    • 22 Dec 2015

                                    soon we will get water-cooled cpu in our smartphones running at over 3.0GHz per core but no longer battery life. sigh.