French agency says the iPhone 12 emits too much radiation, tells Apple to withdraw it

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• AccurstDemon@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Electromagnetic radiation, as in visible light, radio signals or as this Iphone has a fucking RMBK meting its core inside?

  Someone has a link to those test they performed to claim this?

  I call it bullshit

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  • huginn@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Microwaves. 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.

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    • 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

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    • gaael@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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    • cloud@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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    • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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    • AccurstDemon@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s what I thought… non-ionizing radiation fear, once again.

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    • TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is likely mostly true, but there is evidence brain tumor rates went up when handheld cell phones came into widespread use.

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  • kabe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be fair, it’s not completely made-up. There is a body of evidence that suggests that even non-ionizing EM radiation may have so-called “biological effects” in humans.

    Organizations like the EH Trust have been banging the “cellphones cause infertility and cancer” drum for year, and cites numerous studies on their website.

    Of course, much of this research is of questionable relevance to real-world use cases involving actual phones and actual humans as opposed to, say, a bunch of rats being blasted with low-power microwaves in a lab, but it exists nonetheless.

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    • huginn@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Environmental Health Trust is a single issue organization founded to specifically claim that radio waves are dangerous.

      They are alarmists bereft of credible arguments and should be treated as such.

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    • fadhl3y@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      EHTrust are mad as a box of frogs. They claim that phones cause cancer, which is something that all major cancer research charities dispute. Nothing they say can be taken seriously.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I call BS on you understanding what radiation is…

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  • ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you one of those people that doesn’t believe in “science”, or are you having kind of a dumb day?

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are you?

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• Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Eh

  That took them 3 years? Lol

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  • Vineyard8927@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They suspect it was increased with a software update because it was ok before the recent tests.

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  France is really a strange country

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  • supercriticalcheese@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oui

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    • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      C’est pas faux

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• HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The agency said the iPhone 12 met the threshold when radiation levels were assessed for a phone kept in a jacket or in a bag.

  Free bumpers incoming

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• IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Meanwhile French nuclear reactors …

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  • Skua@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are not typically held directly against your head

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    • TheGreatFox@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey, don’t kink shame. Some people like pressing their heads against french nuclear reactors.

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    • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only in a jacket or bag. I love my new pocket nuclear reactor. It’s the smallest nuclear reactor ever, and I think you’re going to love it

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• xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  [deleted]

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Electromagnetic waves are radiation, yes.

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    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure. All EM waves are radiation, including visible light.

      Non ionizing radiation isn’t an issue though so nobody uses “radiation” for it. When you say “radiation” that’s pretty much always talking about ionizing radiation from radioactive sources.

      The iPhone does not emit any ionizing radiation.

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  • ZeroCool@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Yes”

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• Haha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  French agency oh Noooooooo 😂😂😂

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