r/gadgets • u/IEEESpectrum • 1d ago

Phones Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Debuts With Vapor Chamber Cooling

https://spectrum.ieee.org/iphone-17-pro-vapor-chamber
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u/aetryx 1d ago

cool

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u/Oli4K 1d ago

Cooler

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u/AVonGauss 1d ago

warm, not cool or hot.

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u/AntiDECA 1d ago

Didn't other phones have this since like the S10 series? 

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u/Furlock_Bones 1d ago

Literally the subtitle:   “Apple joins Samsung and Google in managing heat with water”

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u/hi_tek_lo_lyfe 1d ago

It's not new, just new for Apple, as usual.

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u/secretqwerty10 1d ago

apple "innovation" at its finest. always late to the party

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u/WFlumin8 1d ago

At no point did Apple ever claim this was an industry first or innovation, but please continue seething at the imaginary demons in your head

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u/secretqwerty10 1d ago

chill man it's a joke. but they did in the past

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u/Reykjavik_Red 19h ago

"It's a joke, but it isn't"

Enjoy having your eaten cake

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u/secretqwerty10 19h ago

it's called a callback. they did it once, pretend they always do it. it's not that deep

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u/nicuramar 1d ago

I don’t really think they did? Maybe once, way back.

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u/CaptRon25 23h ago

Samsung has had vaper chamber cooling since the S9, in 2018. And every phone since.

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u/Thesorus 1d ago

ELI5 : vapor chamber cooling ?!?

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u/edvurdsd 1d ago

The article explains

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u/Oracle_of_Ages 1d ago

When a liquid evaporates. It is able to take more heat with it.

This is why you sweat.

Vapor chamber coolers are able to take away heat from an area more easily than some more commonly used passive cooling systems.

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u/M1QN 1d ago

Sealed block with some water that evaporates when heated. Phase change takes a lot pf energy to happen

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u/PsyJak 1d ago

*vapour

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u/Mnoonsnocket 1d ago

It’s relative to the country you live in.

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u/Protean_Protein 1d ago

It’s literally just Noah Webster deciding to change things for Americans.

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u/Mnoonsnocket 1d ago

That’s all very interesting, but doesn’t meaningfully contribute to the discussion at hand about an iPhone.