Snapdragon 810 SoC making Sony Xperia Z5 Compact owners sweat with overheating issue

Considering that overheating issues plagued the Sony Xperia Z3+ and Sony Xperia Z4, with warnings seen on the display of the latter model before it would shut down, it makes you wonder why Sony would turn again to the Snapdragon 810 chipset for the Sony Xperia Z5, Sony Xperia Z5 Compact and Sony Xperia Z5 Premium.

A tear down of the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium revealed that Sony put in dual heat pipes, and applied thermal paste directly on the chip in order to keep the rising temperature from becoming an issue. Assuming that the manufacturer did this to all three Xperia Z5 models, it apparently …

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