Comment on French agency says the iPhone 12 emits too much radiation, tells Apple to withdraw it
huginn@feddit.it 1 year agoMicrowaves. It’s microwaves.
Phones are slightly above FM radio and slightly below microwaves in terms of wavelength.
They’re a non-ionizing radiation emitter.
The radiation emitted by phones ain’t gonna hurt ya.
I seem to remember it was not a ionization issue but something with local temperatures increases around the ear when you were using it without an earset.
Anyway, Apples knows what the norms are, decided not to care, gets caught and has to retire a phone, nothing exceptional here.
3.8 roentgen. Not great, not terrible.
I doubt they’d have to retire the phone - digital radio power levels are normally pretty easy to change using firmware. Which also means it’s pretty easy to change, intentionally or unintentionally, in a later OS version.
Perhaps Apple chose to cheat to improve reception after mandatory testing was complete and the phone was available to buy. Perhaps Apple didn’t retest with later OS versions and it was unintentional. We will probably never know.
They could have changed things through updates which exacerbated the issue and made the modem emit more.
I have no clue if that is why but that would be my bet.
I’m kind of surprised they would have been able to release the device and ship it to customers with that issue in the first place.
Can’t you read? The article says the EU has a limit of 4 watts per kilogram and the device produces more than that. Scientists agreed on that limit.
How is it 2023, when everybody uses microwave radios for communication constantly, and there are still people that don’t understand the absolute basics, like the difference between radio/light radiation and ionising radiation? And how important transmit power is to how dangerous or not a radio wave is?
They do teach this stuff in schools still, right?
It boggles my mind. It’s not some complex difficult topic, it’s like not knowing how electricity works, or how your body works. This is basic child level knowledge that everybody interacts with every single day, so it behoves them to understand it at least at an introductory level.
Yeah that’s what I thought… non-ionizing radiation fear, once again.
I had a neighbor in Paris who would knock on our door and tell us to turn off the wi-fi because he was allergic.
To wifi.
Bro thinks he is Chuck McGill 🗿🗿🗿
This is likely mostly true, but there is evidence brain tumor rates went up when handheld cell phones came into widespread use.
Detection of brain tumour also went up, due to increased capacity of MRIs/CT scans.
Also more marvel movies came out. It’s interesting how often we have to repeat the correlation/causation joke and people still struggle with it.
umbraroze@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's right! However, remember that bananas have potassium-40 in it, which is radioactive. Not much, though. So be very very mildly careful around bananaphones! /old joke
isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Back in the early 00s there was this wave of “phones give you cancer” panic and my friends father made them put on this stupid sticker on the back of their phone to “stop the radiation”. Anyways it was stupid and your comment reminded me of it xD
Shard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You take that back!
I had a sticker that had flashing LEDs powered solely on the radiation coming from the phone. It was awesome.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 year ago
OK now THAT is cool
Wisely@lemm.ee 1 year ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
RFK Jr. is still making that crazy claim.
isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I thiiiiiiink this was fear mongering in line with the whole uh… Hannity? Whatever that maniacs name was who has/had the AM station. Basically the pre-fox republican mouthpiece.
Kobrah@kbin.social 1 year ago
My grandad still only uses his phone on loud speaker because of this
db2@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Ring ring ring ring ring
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Great, now I have to go listen to the fucking song. Thanks.
cloud@lazysoci.al 1 year ago
Also remember that plants have been around before humans and that we evolved to resist natural radiations. We haven’t evolved yet to be around devices that produces more radiations than the limit agreed by scientists
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Radioactive bananas is a relatively new thing resulting from all the nuclear bomb testing that went on from the 40s in to the 90s.