Samsung Galaxy Note20 Series Cooling Solution Reportedly Different For Each Unit

[The_King]

 

Samsung’s Galaxy Note20 series has been out in the wild for less than a month, but as you can expect, the phone has already been tested, broken down, and dissected by the good folks over at iFIxit. On that last note, it seems that the California-based private company made an interesting discovery on both models.

 

 

 

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During its teardown process, iFixit found that both the Galaxy Note20 and Note20 Ultra have different cooling solutions; instead of implementing a uniform solution like a copper vapour chamber across the board, Samsung chose to fit some units with a cheaper multi-layered graphite thermal pad. And before you think that Samsung reserved the former cooling method for the Note20 Ultra and the latter for the Note20, we’re going to have to burst that bubble.

 

 

 

Based on several teardowns of the phones, iFixit discovered that which Note20 variants gets what cooling solution was a game of roulette; every Note20 and Note20 Ultra are potentially fitted with one cooling solution or the other. So, you getting the more premium copper solution is the very definition of “the luck of the draw”. Mind you, this game of probability applies to units using either Samsung’s Exynos 990 or Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865+ SoCs.

Needless to say, Samsung’s decision to roll the dice on the cooling solutions for its recently launched Note20 series is shrouded in mystery and, if we’re honest, kind of defies both marketing and engineering logic. On the plus side, there doesn’t seem to be any complaints about overheating from either cooling solution at this point, so it’s probably safe to say that they both seem to work as intended.

 

 

[The_King]

this is why i nv get smasung

 

samsung cheap out on the chipset, using lousier exynos instead of snapdragon but charge the same price and now they cheap out on the cooling design

[ZyringChu]

looks good:)

i used samsung glaxy phome my entire life
receive my 1st phone

Galaxy S2

Galaxy Note

Galaxy S5

Galaxy S8(now)

will continue to be using the next gen of galaxy phone:)