Tech: SAR radiation level for iPhone 6 higher than other phones?

Mellark

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Have you heard about SAR? The acronym stands for Specific Absorption Rate and relates to the radiation exposure levels of electronic devices. It’s an important measurement for human health and that’s why all phones undergo careful evaluation of their SAR by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States.

SAR explained: here is the radiation level of top smartphones (iPhone 6 compared with competition)
The legal limit for a device to pass testing is 1.6 watts per kilogram (W/kg), averaged over one gram of tissue, and interestingly enough many of the top-rated smartphones out there approach it dangerously closely.

One such barely legal device is the Apple iPhone 6. Did you know that SAR levels for the iPhone 6 are merely .01 below the legal 1.6 W/kg limit? While technically it is under the threshold, we’d definitely be more reassured if Apple’s newest big thing had lower levels of SAR. Is there an explanation for this? We’d guess that it might have something to do with the iPhone 6’s record number of LTE bands, but take this as merely an educated guess.

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H-I-M will eat this up like a Anaconda at Gaga's Concert.

Aden

An iPhone could give me prostate cancer, I would probably still buy it over an Android.

Mike91

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Originally posted by Rivington Reject

An iPhone could give me prostate cancer, I would probably still buy it over an Android.

We'll all probably get cancer anyways.

Viva La Apple!

H-I-M

Well to be honest most of us have known for a while now that there was something wrong with Apple fans.

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Originally posted by Rivington Reject

An iPhone could give me prostate cancer, I would probably still buy it over an Android.

I mean one's brains must have been very damaged by iPhone radiations over the year to come up with a post like that.

Belle

we're all going to die eventually from this or that. I'm going to die with a damn good phone, though, so whatever.

Skywalker

We're fading.

Giorgoc

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Originally posted by H-I-M

Well to be honest most of us have known for a while now that there was something wrong with Apple fans.

I mean one's brains must have been very damaged by iPhone radiations over the year to come up with a post like that.

Right? I'm actually in shock.

Checking the phone's SAR is VERY important and a huge reason I'd never buy an iPhone even though I loved it when I had the 4S. Apple & Nokia are the biggest culprits when it comes to SAR while typically HTC and Samsung have the lowest SAR ratings.

KillingYourCareer

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Originally posted by Belle

we're all going to die eventually from this or that. I'm going to die with a damn good phone, though, so whatever.