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Smartphones are having more and more computing power than the year before. But why are some developers using are still not using their smarthphones as a means to mine altcoins? Is it the cost or the lack of developers that still hinders us to do so?

Well...... I think it is a number of things.    A phone is just not a great device to mine with in any reasonable sort of way.  Too many problems.  That is why developers do not put much time into it I think.  Who knows maybe some crazy tech will come along and change that.  Meanwhile I will stick with a bunch of high end gpu's.

Arionum has a android miner. And it works pretty good.

please tell us more, what is arionum? is that a phone miner? how much can you earn? where to download? what happens to the phone during mining? Thanks

a device that can process mining not only can compute but also must be able to reduce heating because the mining process will produce heat also should be able to generate a significant hash rate. Indeed now there are coins that can be mined with smartphones like ETN but in reality, not a smartphone that does it but other devices that do it.

Mining in phone for what?

Could you please provide more details about this? I am very interested, thank you so much.

I would be interested in that too

I can exploit on the ios operating system
Give me the best app

Have two words for...Duty Cycle.  Google it.   A phone is not designed to be running 100% of the time at 100% cpu load.  Too much heat is generated.  The microelectronics on the main board do not deal well with being constantly cooked. The phone will live a short life.

Electroneum (ETN).

https://electroneum101.com/how-to-mine-electroneum-with-a-mobile-phone/ (https://electroneum101.com/how-to-mine-electroneum-with-a-mobile-phone/)

Read and review if it's worth it for you.

The dev has been know mining using a smartphones is unprofitable and unreasonably because smartphones should compete with GPU miners on Hashrate also a smartphones casing too small and has no fan.

tell me more about it, you interest me, would like to know more about what it is,  how it works

Take a look at this bro,
A phone is not designed to be running 100% cpu load like Computer farm.
1. mining will load a battery and a processor, also your mobile phone or a tablet can overheat;
2. continuous Internet access is needed;
3. mining on smartphones takes more time compared to PC mining;
4. antivirus programs recognize the majority of mining apps as unreliable;
even the most powerful mobile phone cannot be compared to the calculating capacity of a computer farm.

This pretty much falls under spend $20 to make a nickel.  This will destroy your phone because of the excess heat.