Airpods Pro - RF exposure data?

[kis]

Hi,

has anyone found the RF exposure data for the Airpods Pro? Apple used to have that data (for the older Airpods) on their RF exposure website - not it‘s been removed.

In the safety info manual that comes with the headphones they only say that the max transmit power is below 100mw (100mw is the same output power that WiFi access points and 5G phones have, except that nobody sticks two of them in their ears and leaves them there for hours).

The airpods had very bad SAR ratings (0.53 per ear) - I wonder if Apple has improved those for the pros, especially since they‘re already being sued over the (allegedly) under reported SAR numbers of some of the iPhone models.

 

[haruhiko]

FCC ID BCG-A2084 Bluetooth Earbud by Apple Inc.

FCC ID application submitted by Apple Inc. for Bluetooth Earbud for FCC ID BCG-A2084. Approved Frequencies, User Manuals, Photos, and Wireless Reports.

fccid.io

Here you are. This listing is quite detailed.

 

[kis]

FCC ID BCG-A2084 Bluetooth Earbud by Apple Inc.

FCC ID application submitted by Apple Inc. for Bluetooth Earbud for FCC ID BCG-A2084. Approved Frequencies, User Manuals, Photos, and Wireless Reports.

fccid.io

Here you are. This listing is quite detailed.

Thanks - so yeah, they did their homework. SAR is 0.62 body-worn (which, in this case, seems to be when the rear of the antenna, facing away from the phone, is touched). Head-worn it‘s only 0.072, which is almost zero.

So the „pro“ moniker doesn‘t only indicate overall better performance, it also means that you get roughly 9 times less radiation into your head than with the standard Airpods due to better antenna design.

Max transmit power for these, btw., is only 17.78mw. For Bluetooth LE it‘s 10mw. So roughly 5-10 times lower than the max they‘re allowed to use for a bluetooth class 1 product.

All of this is good news for the consumer - and perhaps a result of the FCC probe.

I wonder how the range differs between the Pro and the standard Airpods.