"Water Cooled" Phone, anyone?

[Valinor]

I came across this article while I was supposed to be revising:

 

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4332856/nec-water-cooled-ladyphone-medias-x-06e

 

 

I'm not entirely sure that I'd call it water cooling; the article says that it's a heat pipe which contains water, so I'm not sure it counts. Then again, it's still a pretty neat cooling solution for a phone.

[SirReallySam]

That is slightly insane, haha but still pretty awesome :)

[XiaoPigs]

Phones don't get too uncomfortably hot anyways and besides what are you won't see any real world benefit with that extra bit of overclock. Besides won't it add like extra weight which would make it uncomfortable to hold for long periods of time?

 

Anyways it's a cool idea lol and thanks for sharing :)

[ole720]

Hmm

[Peopie]

If its just a heat pipe, I think they would use the same ammonia chemical that they use for the heatpipes used in air cooling, rather than actual water

[Raj8396]

Its pretty cool (pun intended), may be they can overclock the cpu if they were cooled better.

[kemical]

awesome but why push it as a ladies phone looks decent to me something a dude can use personally i would

[911^NEmeSis]

Phones don't get too uncomfortably hot anyways and besides what are you won't see any real world benefit with that extra bit of overclock. Besides won't it add like extra weight which would make it uncomfortable to hold for long periods of time?

 

Anyways it's a cool idea lol and thanks for sharing :)

+1 Though my phone gets as hot as a heater sometimes! :D

[PaulC1]

Pretty useless considering phones don't get that hot. But props to the manufacturer for trying something new

[D0M1N8T0R]

My Xperia Z is watercooled, if i want to :D

[Samdb]

Seems unnecessary to be honest.

[mgsstar]

What will happen if the pipes broke when you dropped it? Your phone would be probably dead if it leaks so I don't think its a good idea.

[Guest]

It's cool

literally. 

 

Wonder if they'll make a profit on this..

[Chris.W]

Phones don't get too uncomfortably hot anyways and besides what are you won't see any real world benefit with that extra bit of overclock. Besides won't it add like extra weight which would make it uncomfortable to hold for long periods of time?

 

Anyways it's a cool idea lol and thanks for sharing :)

 

Tell that to my iPhone 4S this afternoon while I was out painting. I thought the bloody thing was going to burst into flames. lol

[BeyondNight]

Itd be nice to be ablke to evenly spread the heat instead of having a hotspot where the processor is, then again if they are smart you wont need a heatpipe, just a small sheet of aluminum that touches the Processor on the ohoen that covers the entire back of it.

[OneGun]

I liquid cooled My old IPhone when I dropped it in the toilet..

[Ninety1Nine]

This is only new tech for a smartphone. A heat pipe of similar design can be pulled from most laptops, so I wouldn't call it new and it is far from being water cooled.

Other than that its a nice idea.

[Nicktrance]

Sounds more like a regular heat pipe using water vapour TBH, although phones do tend to get hot when under load, I'd bet the advantages are outweighed by the disadvantages (weight, thickness, probably forces a sealed design to aid heat dissipation...)

[tabuburn]

Vapor chamber cooling on a phone?

[ProGearUk]

I honestly don't see the point. Although apple products are stupidly inefficent and  pump out a load of heat this may work on them. 

[MainStageNews]

This is different to say the least :P has anything like this been tried on a laptop?

[infernowheels]

My phone overheats, because it's screen brightness is one of the highest nits for a mobile phone... 

With phones on better cooling solutions, we can go higher on clock speeds and brighter on displays~

[SirReallySam]

+1 Though my phone gets as hot as a heater sometimes! :D

What phone do yo have, my Lumia 800 gets pretty darn hot and sometimes overheats... :|

[mr-nipples]

Battery and energy saving technology needs to advance before we can start worrying about heat and overclocking!

[Valinor]

This is different to say the least :P has anything like this been tried on a laptop?

 

Asetek actually did a watercooled (more proper watercooling, not a water-filled heatpipe) about a year ago, although I can't remember if it ever came to market.

 

Link: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asetek-cooling-alienware-notebook,15077.html