People are making fun of this but as someone who sometimes uses my phone in direct, 100 percent sunlight and temps in the 90s this could be extremely useful.
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Razer Launches MagSafe-Compatible Cooling Fan for iPhones
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That's how you innovate and tap into a certain niche. Gotta admire and love Razer for this.
Still waiting for MagSafe truck nutz.
I have issues recording video outside in Texas summer heat for more than a few minutes. I wonder if this will help. I do prefer my iPhone over my GoPro for shots longer than 5 minutes, but in summer sun and heat, my iPhone shuts down with a Temperature warning.
I wonder if this device or something similar might mitigate this problem.
I wonder if this device or something similar might mitigate this problem.
Not for me but these comments are meh as per usual — I’ve read Xbox game streaming on iPhone 13 makes the phone so, so hot hundreds of times. This is a gaming company. They made something to combat that, plain and simple. Just as “April Fools” as a camera company making stick-on lenses for your iPhone.
a better investment would be a CarPlay headhunt so you can keep your phone in the shade with the display off in the car. I got a Sony and I absolutely love it
You don't sit on a jape this good for 5 months.?
Y'all got no one to blame for this but y'all selves. Because people were willing to fork over $20 for a piece of cleaning cloth, every snake oil salesman thinks Apple fans have a loose grip on their wallets.
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As silly as this seems, it's annoying during the summer when I'm outside and I can't see my phone in the sun because it's overheating and the brightness is limited.
I read that there is a clueless company that sells $1000 monitor stands and wheels for their tower computers for $700.
I’d be extremely skeptical of this providing any meaningful differences in performance. You’re only recycling air in a very small space on the outside of the phone. If you have a small fan in the house, try aiming it at your phone when you’re doing something computationally intensive — I guarantee that you will notice absolutely no difference.
iPhone 13 Pro Max likely gets pretty hot shooting long sessions of 4K@60 Hz video I guess is the purpose of this fan for video buffs.
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Yeah, exactly. The comments here are saying a lot more about MR readers than about Razer. I'm not a gamer, so I'm totally indifferent, but the latest phones are designed to run high-end games and are guaranteed to get hot while doing so. If that causes throttling, or just an uncomfortable user experience, then this makes perfect sense.
No company would spend money on R&D + marketing for anything without first determining a need for it. Particularly not a successful company like Razer.
It's also for both iPhone and Android, btw, so the need has clearly been identified across the mobile gaming market.
What I used to do when I gamed is get a small ice pack and place it on the back
While I don't know if I would buy this honestly this has happened to me on many, many occasions. It is quite frustrating to see your screen dim and have your iPhone slow down immensely because of how hot it gets.
Supply Chain Manager: Boss, we ordered too many of these RBG lights and we can't produce enough devices to use them up.
Boss: Make light up beer koozies, sneakers that glow, or magnetic fans then.
Manufacturing: Fans it is.
Boss: Make light up beer koozies, sneakers that glow, or magnetic fans then.
Manufacturing: Fans it is.
Do people really take gaming on mobile device seriously? I imagine hardcore gamers that maybe interested are on PC/consoles…
Simple solution for that is to mount phone over one of the A/C vents. Keeps you and your phone cool during summer drives.