Treating it as retail consumer electronics shit isn't rugged enough for real use.
Treating it as retail consumer electronics shit isn't rugged enough for real use.
But it is retail consumer electronics and it should be able to handle temperatures commonly encountered for a retail electronics satellite dish, which includes a hot roof in Arizona, but does not include the back of a hot truck where a consumer shouldn't expect his home dish to operate.
Either this was a dumb oversight, or it was an intentionally cut corner because of schedule or MVP or something.
However, since most phones are relative water resistant now, a good option is to use evaporative effects to cool them down. You could also dig a hole in the earth to find cooler temps and dissipate heat that way.
You can find same chips (=same function) made for consumer electronics, automative, aeronautic and military, all with different temperature and humidity ranges. I'm not sure about mobile phone CPUs/SoCs, but automotive equipment is a lot more resilient to voltage spikes well above the normal 12-14V.
Fortunately, I had seen this before in undergraduate physics lab, the day our LCD experiment was interrupted by the room thermostat breaking, sending the temp > 100F. The nice thing about LCDs is that the crystals reform when it cools. All you have to do is wait. Probably works for most modern phone displays.