A new flagship gaming phone is on the way (but should you hope?)
TL;DR Infinix introduced a new cooling system for gaming phones at MWC 2024. This system sees a Dimensity 9300 chipset coupled with a cooling fan and more. Infinix also says it will launch a new flagship gaming phone later this year, but don’t hold your breath for the Dimensity chip and cooling fan. Chinese manufacturer […]
TL;DR
- Infinix introduced a new cooling system for gaming phones at MWC 2024.
- This system sees a Dimensity 9300 chipset coupled with a cooling fan and more.
- Infinix also says it will launch a new flagship gaming phone later this year, but don’t hold your breath for the Dimensity chip and cooling fan.
Chinese manufacturer Infinix has been around for over a decade and is best known for its mid-range phones. The company has now confirmed plans to launch a gaming phone.
Infinix unveiled a so-called CoolMax cooling system for gaming phones at MWC 2024. This combines a flagship MediaTek Dimensity 9300 processor with a cooling system including a cooling fan and thermoelectric cooling.
The smartphone maker claims its approach to smartphone cooling results in lower temperatures of up to 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit).
The company also claims to use AI to help control temperatures, although this appears to simply be an algorithm to manage the CPU cores. This means enabling large cores when needed and switching to medium cores for lighter workloads – pretty much what all flagship smartphones currently do.
Infinix’s flagship gaming phone is coming
Infinix has confirmed that it will launch a flagship gaming phone later this year, featuring a dedicated imaging chip and a Dimensity processor. We asked the company to confirm whether the phone will offer a Dimensity 9300 chipset and the CoolMax system (including the cooling fan). Unfortunately, a representative said Android Authority that the gaming phone might not have the Dimensity 9300 or all the aforementioned cooling features.
For what it’s worth, we’ve already seen second-tier brands offering “gaming phones” that aren’t really gaming phones in the traditional sense. For example, Infinix’s GT 10 Pro was marketed as a gaming phone and offered a stereotypical, garish design, but contained a mid-range chipset and no shoulder buttons. Not quite a ROG phone or a REDMAGIC device.
The company’s software experience and updates are two other areas where it lags significantly behind most brands. So we’re hoping that the company’s flagship gaming phone (if it is indeed a full-fledged gaming phone) will offer improvements in this regard.
