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Latest SAR Ratings for smartphones - Radiation Exposure
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You have to remember, if the iPhone is implicated in any bad thing then that immediately makes that thing "Not Really Matter".
Don't know why you argue with some of these guys, you know how it goes around here Mate
Had there been no iPhone on the bad list, the iFans would be here telling us about how bad Androids are in radiation
narrative would be very different.
Gotta say that is exactly right and it would have been on the MR front pageYou have to remember, if the iPhone is implicated in any bad thing then that immediately makes that thing "Not Really Matter".
Don't know why you argue with some of these guys, you know how it goes around here Mate
Had there been no iPhone on the bad list, the iFans would be here telling us about how bad Androids are in radiationnarrative would be very different.
If you are accusing someone of being biased towards Apple products, should it be fair to say this post among others comes off as being a paid shill for Samsung. Can you divulge details about your arrangement with Samsung?
Interesting, so you are saying Samsung would gladly get someone to show the stats of Samsung's home country rival (LG) in a lot of products, beating Samsung (LG best performer in that list). Hell of a strategy mate
That's like Chevy paying someone to push a study that has a Ford product winning overall. Makes absolute sense, doesn't it? /s
And the hits keep coming. Man o man, there's more salt in this thread than Gordon Ramsay steak.
Wow...so the post you replied to was pretty polite. But your post was very rude. Name calling is against forum rules.
Get used to it, an imminent Samsung launch is going to bring these critters in here in droves.....
I thought I was not being impolite but direct, I apologize if I came across as rude but that was not intentional.
The OP's post history along with his avatar shows that the person has a particular axe to grind against Apple and favor Samsung, which is fine if disclosed, but totally fails under the pretense of unbiased posts. My response was just putting this bias out there, which of course was not responded to but deflected instead.
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iPhones have always been oddly bad with this (I remember noticing this on GSM arena). I don't suppose the levels we're talking about make a huge amount of difference (as compared to having or not having a smartphone at all). With the 5G controversy I wonder if this will be brought more into focus? It's been rumbling on since the inception of cellular services, time to actually get some answers here.
The FCC limit for public exposure from cellular telephones is an SAR level of 1.6 watts per kilogram (1.6 W/kg).
https://www.fcc.gov/general/specific-absorption-rate-sar-cellular-telephones
https://www.fcc.gov/general/specific-absorption-rate-sar-cellular-telephones
This is sage advice. I’ve been doing this for years with either wired or Bluetooth headsets. Since my flip phone days. Doesn’t matter what phone I’m using. Just bought AirPods they make it even easier to keep the phone away from your body.
The irony here being Bluetooth is also EM radiation?
Yes, less so than the SAR emitted by any phones. But wired earphones conduct minimal radiation.
According to the following site, manufacturers get to choose the distance at which the SAR is measured. As distance to the body gets smaller, the SAR increases dramatically. Apple's distance is 1/3 that of Samsung's.
https://www.saferemr.com/2018/02/samsung-galaxy-s9-and-s9-plus-specific.html
https://www.saferemr.com/2018/02/samsung-galaxy-s9-and-s9-plus-specific.html
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I have a little cart that I put my phone in and pull behind me, that way I know I'm safe.
BRAINWAVE ACTIVITY / FREQUENCY DESCRIPTION
No matter what we say, think, prefer personally this is a fact (see scheme) and it’s best to reduce the “daily intake” of all of it ... CHOOSE WISELY plus maybe “force” manufacturers to act accordingly :
http://www.humanfirewall.com/PDFGB/BrainwavemodelBevolutionGB.pdf
No matter what we say, think, prefer personally this is a fact (see scheme) and it’s best to reduce the “daily intake” of all of it ... CHOOSE WISELY plus maybe “force” manufacturers to act accordingly :
http://www.humanfirewall.com/PDFGB/BrainwavemodelBevolutionGB.pdf
I feel like if this was really something to worry about, there would already be an increase in certain forms of cancer. So far that hasn’t happened
Yes, but remember that we started to use our phones all day a few years ago. So it's to early to discard some bad effects of the radiation.
Remember what they said about smoking? So, if other brands could lower the SAR, Apple should do it too.
Wow what a read. https://www.saferemr.com/2016/10/do-iphones-emit-more-radiation-than_24.html?m=1
If this is true - then SAR ratings are confusing to the consumer and manipulative.
“The iPhones were tested at 5 millimeters, and the Galaxy phones were tested at 15 millimeters. If the Galaxy phones had been tested at 5 millimeters, the SAR values would likely have been between 1.73 and 2.78 W/kg.”
“Some phones may even fail the SAR test with a 5 millimeter body separation distance. For example, the Samsung Galaxy 7 phones would not likely have been certified for sale because the maximum SAR allowed in the U.S. or Korea is 1.60 W/kg, and the body SARs would have exceeded this limit if the phones were tested at 5 millimeters.”
Definitely agree with article writer that tests need to be standardized. Either way, I rarely talk on my phone and when I do it is really short. Uploading photos, sending photos, and reading is mostly what I do.