> My gut tells me that if we could, there would be phones catching on fire all over the place. If that was an issue you would see it already all around. > Alt

> My gut tells me that if we could, there would be phones catching on fire all over the place. If that was an issue you would see it already all around. > Although a phone has tons of power, and can probably function as a low-end desktop, the lack of a sizeable cooling solution, or even just a plain heatsink, would cause it to throttle pretty quickly. I would rather compare it to laptops and processing power of snapdragon 8 is rather in mid-upper segment of average available on the market laptop ARM is also a different platform with way better computing performance per Watt ratio from regular PC, there is throttling, but when it kicks in it doesn't reduce your performance so significantly > I have to believe this is the reason, or otherwise someone would have done it already (successfully that is) for such an obvious use case. Believe, or not - the reasons why it wasn't done so far are far beyond technical reasons and we could have computer like capable phones long time ago already.