Sony has launched a smartphone cooling instrumentality accessory that’s designed to little the somesthesia of its Xperia 1 IV nether aggravated gaming loads. The Xperia Stream besides offers a enactment of other ports successful summation to moving arsenic a cooling accessory. It’s disposable to preorder present successful Japan for 23,100 yen (around $162) with shipping expected connected October 14th.

The purpose with these kinds of accessories, which person besides been produced by the likes of Asus and Razer, is to fto a phone’s processor tally astatine higher speeds for longer, by preventing the kinds of precocious temperatures that tin pb to show throttling. Asus has the AeroActive Cooler for its gaming-focused ROG Phone lineup, portion Razer precocious released an RGB cooling fan that’s designed to beryllium attached to immoderate smartphone you choose.

The 4 ports connected the underside of the accessory. Image: Sony

Cool aerial in, blistery aerial out. Image: Sony

Sony’s cooler plugs into the Xperia 1 IV via USB, and offers 4 further ports connected its bottommost side. There’s a USB-C larboard for charging, an Ethernet larboard for wired internet, a 3.5mm jack to connect a gaming headset, and an HDMI larboard for outputting crippled footage to a seizure card. The fan’s velocity tin beryllium controlled automatically by Sony’s software, oregon you tin fine-tune its RPM manually.

As good arsenic selling the Xperia Stream by itself, Sony is besides selling it successful a bundle named the Xperia 1 IV Gaming Edition for 189,200 yen (around $1,330). The mentation of the telephone sold successful this bundle has 16GB of RAM, up from the 12GB of RAM successful the basal Xperia 1 IV model. It’s unclear erstwhile oregon if either the cooling instrumentality oregon the Gaming Edition smartphone volition beryllium released successful Europe oregon North America.