Apple has been told it must recall every iPhone 12 sold in the country if it cannot fix the problem.

France halts iPhone 12 sales over radiation levels::Apple has been told it must recall every iPhone 12 sold in the country if it cannot fix the problem.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I feel like the limit itself COULD be reasonable (there’s more to the potential harms than ionizing radiation /cancer), but popscience news sites are going to make misleading headlines anyways

    • Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Can you provide me with articles about that? Afaik the general scientific consensus is that as long as it’s not shoving out >100watts or is releasing EM radiation on an ionizing band (UV and higher), then it’s pretty harmless.

      Can you warm up a chicken with wifi? Yeah, but afaik a signal that strong would probably already violate various international treaties regarding radio communications long before it got strong enough to have a noticable affect on the chicken.

      Think about how many watts your microwave needs to cook food. That’s the amount of power it takes to heat up food using EM radiation that’s been roughly tuned with the intention of penetrating and heating physical matter by generating friction between water molecules. If I understand the article, the iPhone is putting out less than 6 watts. That’s almost nothing. Should there be a limit? Yeah, but to my knowledge, you’d start accidentally jamming communication frequencies around you long before it became a threat to personal health.

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Ah ok that makes sense, that’s what I was wondering in another thread. If a phone COULD output a dangerous level of EMR.

        Can you provide me with articles about that?

        I was referring to the stuff you described, just didn’t know the specifics. Edited my comment to stress that