If you buy a gaming smartphone, you might find yourself buying a clip-on fan for it too – these keep the handset cool through long gaming sessions, and stop it overheating.
At TechRadar my job is to, as our About Us page attests, ‘review [tech] thoroughly and carefully’ but since gaming-phone-coolers have a very simple job, they’re naturally all fit for task.
So to see how good they really are, I had to devise a totally new test for them… one that really puts them through their paces.
What’s the most important thing that requires cold temperatures? The answer is, of course, to make ice cream. So to test out a few of these gadgets I’ve accumulated over time, I tried using these game phone coolers to make my own ice cream.
Pictured are the coolers for the Xiaomi Black Shark 3 and Nubia Red Magic 6.
Making the ice cream
I’ll speed through the ice-cream-making part, because this is a tech website and not an ice cream site (sadly). I used this simple ice cream recipe from Tasty, though while that uses Oreos, we decided to instead use Lotus Biscoff biscuits. I should point out I’ve made…
