SAR value iphone 6 GSM

My day is complete.

So long as Apple uses their current antenna system and chipset they will probably remain at those levels. Since extremely few buyers pay any attention to SAR value when shopping for a phone I wouldn't look for any imminent change.

Nobody cares because it's not advertised correctly, and the impact is suspected but not confirmed.

Did people care about green products 20 years ago ?

joeltaly has summarized it well : we love our Apple products but we won't accept blindly whatever Apple proposes us.

It isn't advertised at all. Not sure what "correctly" means.

I wonder why China iPhone 6/A1589 gets the best treatment for the SAME product (Head SAR 0.38), while the rest of the world gets almost microwave radiation exposure (at simultaneous transmission – data, wi-fi and BT on).

I recently read that Steve Jobs replied to a rejected SAR app programmer “I don’t care”, but the guy, seriously, died from cancer… he should at least, while spending his last days, leave a convent for future products seeking for the most healthy feasible way to serve and treat apple’s customers. In China they did just that, why not everywhere else ???

found some links saying IPHONE 6 has a SAR rating of 1.59 !

thats a 0.01 under the regulation max rating of 1.6

iphone 5 was about 1.1

is this true ?

I believe that is true for the 6 Plus. So what happens after you go over 1.6?

deggie wrote:

I believe that is true for the 6 Plus. So what happens after you go over 1.6?

"These go to eleven." 😉

mikeleforever wrote:

found some links saying IPHONE 6 has a SAR rating of 1.59 !

It is wrong.

thats a 0.01 under the regulation max rating of 1.6

iphone 5 was about 1.1

is this true ?

No.

-> Apple legal - RF Exposure

HI,

Can anyone here explain why US and European SAR levels are different? I understand each tests differently eg over 1 gram compared to 10 but why is the US for example the iPhone 6 is roughly 1.16 and in Europe it is 0.99? Perhaps a better example of what I am trying to understand (and considering Samsungs have been used in this thread) why is the Galaxy s5 1.20 in the US but only 0.59 in Europe?!

Is it something to do with how each location uses masts or specific telecommunications technology? Or is each version of the same phone made differently in that location?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_absorption_rate

Thanks. So it's all to do with averaging volume...which I presume no one but the manufacturers would know?

Given the figures I quoted above and the US threshold I wonder how manufacturers get to sell phones with larger SAR values?

THe whole thing has just got me thinking as I do have to have my phone on me in a pocket for 6 hours per day which has made me wonder if I will start to glow in the dark soon...