Why do our mobiles struggle in the heat and what can we do about it?
You're sitting outside on your lunch break and your phone says it's too hot to work.The current UK heatwave -Unlike humans, phones can't sweat - which is good for those holding them but not great for our handsets.Heat goes up, processor slows down
Much like how we struggle to operate at the same speed in intense heat, it can be something similar for the phone's processor - a chip inside that's responsible for its main functions. "The internal things that actually make it all work, unfortunately, themselves generate heat in the way they work," says Dr Roz Wyatt-Millington, a senior lecturer in electronic and electrical engineering at Leeds Beckett University.
"And as the device gets hotter for phones, the processor tries to stop itself overheating and it ends up slowing everything down as a result.""Batteries store energy and are designed to work at certain temperatures. The hotter they get, the harder they have to work and the more energy they use," she says.Dr Roz says we often turn up screen brightness when outside in the sunshine, which can also have an impact.
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