Hello,
so i've been waiting for this new nexus phone forever, and i was very excited when it got announced, it was basically a 100% purchase for me. but then i've seen the benchmarks and started to read more and more about the problems it has regarding thermal throttling.
the benchmark scores are really bad for the hardware that's built into it, no other phone with the same hardware produces nearly as low scores as the nexus 4 does. and even though i probably wouldn't even notice the throttling in the average everyday use, i would still always have it in the back of my head, knowing that this phone is defective in some way. and it would bother me a lot.
now i was looking for a reason as to why this phone throttles so hard. on the review posted a few days ago here on anandtech, someone found out that the nexus 4 throttles at 60°C already, whereas other devices apparently go up to 80°C before they start to throttle. but why is this threshold set so low for the nexus 4? what would happen if you would up this to say 80°C and then run the benchmarks again? would it damage? would it severely decrease the battery life? would it explode? or would it just start to work like every other phone does - without throttling?
so i've been waiting for this new nexus phone forever, and i was very excited when it got announced, it was basically a 100% purchase for me. but then i've seen the benchmarks and started to read more and more about the problems it has regarding thermal throttling.
the benchmark scores are really bad for the hardware that's built into it, no other phone with the same hardware produces nearly as low scores as the nexus 4 does. and even though i probably wouldn't even notice the throttling in the average everyday use, i would still always have it in the back of my head, knowing that this phone is defective in some way. and it would bother me a lot.
now i was looking for a reason as to why this phone throttles so hard. on the review posted a few days ago here on anandtech, someone found out that the nexus 4 throttles at 60°C already, whereas other devices apparently go up to 80°C before they start to throttle. but why is this threshold set so low for the nexus 4? what would happen if you would up this to say 80°C and then run the benchmarks again? would it damage? would it severely decrease the battery life? would it explode? or would it just start to work like every other phone does - without throttling?
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