Why Do Smartphones Keep Getting Faster Every Year?

Smartphones get faster because engineers keep making the tiny brain inside them, called a chip, even tinier and more powerful. Imagine your smartphone is like a toy car, and its brain is like the motor. If you make the motor smaller but stronger, the car goes faster!

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  1. Your smartphone is like a race car, the smaller and stronger its engine (the chip), the faster it goes.
  2. A new smartphone can load an app in seconds because of a faster brain inside it.
  3. Imagine your old phone was like a bicycle, but a new one is like a motorbike.

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