Apple iPhone emits three time the radiation as the Samsung Galaxy S III?
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A company called tawkon produced an infograph that shows the amount of radiation emanating from different handset models. According to tawkon, an Apple iPhone releases three times the amount of radiation as the amount emitted by the Samsung Galaxy S III. The company offered an app for the App Store that would warn Apple iPhone users when radiation levels from their device were getting dangerously high.
About a year after we originally wrote about the app, Apple removed the app from the App Store saying that there was no interest in the app. At the time, there was a question of whether that was the real reason for tawkon's removal from the online applications store. After all, senior Apple executives had given high marks to the app's functionality and looks and had even helped the developers get the app through API restrictions and into the App Store. Some believe that Apple had forced the removal of tawkon because it did not present the Apple iPhone in the best light.
The good news is that the app lives on in the Google Play Store where Android users can be warned when the radiation on their phone is too high. It is a free app available for users of Android 2.1 and higher.
source: Google Play Store via Phandroid
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55 Comments
1. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 20 Jul 2012, 13:29 23
So Apple can delete apps because they think they aren't downloaded/used enough? Complain about Google's market all you want, things like that don't happen with Android.
2. aaronkatrini posted on 20 Jul 2012, 13:40 13
yeah!! what loosers! they removed bit defender app just for stating that around 40% of apps leak privacy!
3. PAPINYC posted on 20 Jul 2012, 13:50 18
I believe this to be 100% accurate because ever since I've started using an iPhone 4S my hair has been falling out; I never had that happen on my DROID RAZR or Android.
11. xtian1103 posted on 20 Jul 2012, 14:26 6
i believe you inherit your being bald from your father! it's hereditary
4. andro. posted on 20 Jul 2012, 13:53 25
Hmm an app that tells you how apples phones is actually shielded far less effectively from radiation that a rival phone gets deleted.....sounds like apple covering up again. The iPhone could be emitting more radiation or perhaps the extra radiation is actually brainwaves apple is sending out to control ifans......i wonder!
9. Evil_SaNz posted on 20 Jul 2012, 14:21 7
Also the Apple stickers that people happily place on their cars are needed to control ifans! Who owns one is doomed.
7. kanagadeepan posted on 20 Jul 2012, 14:15 7
OH... Like a Zombie, iPhone wants to eat/fry human brain...
8. jove39 posted on 20 Jul 2012, 14:19 11
"Some believe that Apple had forced the removal of tawkon because it did not present the Apple iPhone in the best light"
This is a problem with Apple...they'll remove a app...just because it may warn user for high radiation...APPLE SHOULD FIX IPHONE INSTEAD.
Also, It explains why iFans behave like f**ktards!
10. Non_Sequitur posted on 20 Jul 2012, 14:24 1
I don't have to say anything, the current comments on this page already do.
13. remixfa posted on 20 Jul 2012, 14:30 8
well.. that explains all the iZombies.. radiation over exposure.
Apple removed yet ANOTHER app that didnt make apple seem like the cream of the crop? go figure.
Anyone else remember the "cellphone story" or whatever that app was called.. lol they didnt like that one bit.
14. mas11 posted on 20 Jul 2012, 15:05 2
Wow the iPhone is dangerous to your health iRadiation? Btw I'm surprised they used the DROID 4 instead of the DROID RAZR. I'm guessing they give off the same radiation.
15. CellieCell posted on 20 Jul 2012, 15:25 0
I don't understand how a cellphone can read radiation levels emanating from your handset, if it could do that than couldn't it detect radiation? Someone please enlighten me. Thank you.
20. tedkord posted on 20 Jul 2012, 16:18 3
I'm assuming it's calculating it from the amount of power the radio is drawing, and/or the signal level (bars). I'm sure the iPhone does not have a Geiger counter integrated. (But I'm sure Apple has a patent for it.)
16. sarb009 posted on 20 Jul 2012, 15:50 2
What more can u expect from a phone made in CHINA ?
17. roscuthiii posted on 20 Jul 2012, 15:53 0
"Some believe that Apple had forced the removal of tawkon because it did not present the Apple iPhone in the best light." This! They are working slavishly to maintain the RDF.
Just like their recent debacle with the brief withdrawal from the EPEAT standards reviews. They made some claims about a different design direction but what it all comes down to is they were afraid they wouldn't receive a high review.
Just as the highly suspect removal of the Bitdefender app as mentioned above.
It all comes down to fear. Fear is the motivator of their actions nowadays. All the petty lawsuits? Fear. Apple is afraid of having to compete.
36. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 20 Jul 2012, 18:37 0
Apple is afraid of losing the mobile war like they did the computer war. Steve hinted about that when he made the comment about the OG iPhone being patented. We are seeing this just about every day.
19. tedkord posted on 20 Jul 2012, 16:15 2
It's actually Hawking radiation emitted from the event horizon of the Reality Distortion Field. It's very similar to the phenomenon predicted by physics at the boundary of a black hole. It's caused by outside information entering the field being destroyed, and reassembled in a fashion that won't upset the balance of anyone existing inside the field. ;-)
24. JessJess (unregistered) posted on 20 Jul 2012, 16:42 1
Often wondered how safe the iPhone antenna design was. I mean, the fact that your hands are in physical contact with it at all times (well unless you have a case but im talking about it in its natural state).
27. andro. posted on 20 Jul 2012, 17:31 0
Even more intriguing is that the iPhone 4$ has two of these antenna types,double the possibilty
46. remixfa posted on 21 Jul 2012, 04:13 0
all smartphones have 2 antennas as far as I know. Most just have them at the same point (top or bottom) and not wrapped the entire way around the phone without any kind of grounding. .lol
25. EclipseGSX posted on 20 Jul 2012, 17:02 0
Haha nice. Maybe these stupid iTards won't be able to reproduce as much then
28. darkkjedii posted on 20 Jul 2012, 17:35 0
Let's see how many thumb downs this gets. Apple rules the game so hate all u want
U androiders r jus trolls who search PA all day for apple articles, jus to hate and post crap comments. U guys really really suck.
39. sithman (banned) posted on 20 Jul 2012, 20:02 0
That was a good one lol. I had to give it a thumbs up myself.
34. smartphonemad posted on 20 Jul 2012, 18:18 1
That is such a huge generalisation given the amount of people posting on PA. And no, apple does not "rule the game"... Android sales are higher than apples. Check your facts before you post crap. And your spelling too.
38. sithman (banned) posted on 20 Jul 2012, 20:00 0
Nope facts r correct. Check your spelling dumb ass generalization is the correct spelling, not generalisation. ANDROID IDIOT!!!
40. tedkord posted on 20 Jul 2012, 20:03 0
Depends on if he's wrong from America or Great Britain.
41. darkkjedii posted on 20 Jul 2012, 20:40 0
Ted I don't know I think it's the same either way
45. tedkord posted on 21 Jul 2012, 03:46 1
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalization
49. smartphonemad posted on 21 Jul 2012, 04:41 0
I'm from GB where it's spelt with an s as tedkord has said dumbass
50. sithman (banned) posted on 21 Jul 2012, 06:07 0
Liar u just used that as an out dumbass. Your ass is from right here in america.
52. smartphonemad posted on 21 Jul 2012, 12:54 0
What are you basing that on? You really are clueless :L
37. DroogV59 posted on 20 Jul 2012, 19:44 1
I recommend a tin foil hat. To protect what little is left of your iphone irradiated brain my friend.
33. wendygarett posted on 20 Jul 2012, 18:17 0
The good news is that the app lives on in the Google Play Store where Android users can be warned when the radiation on their phone is too high. It is a free app available for users of Android 2.1 and higher.
35. jroc74 posted on 20 Jul 2012, 18:36 0
I actually dont care about the SAR level. Thats one reason why Moto phones have above average reception....higher SAR levels.
If anything....this actually says the iPhone might have better reception than the GS3...lol.
42. cellphonator posted on 20 Jul 2012, 21:23 1
On a side note, I was about to download it but then permissions were pretty scary so now, I don't know...
43. networkdood posted on 20 Jul 2012, 21:45 0
No wonder APPLE was going to pull out of the EPEAT certification system....
44. VJo003 posted on 20 Jul 2012, 23:48 0
BlackBerry has made its way on top of some tree.
Good to see that... LOL
48. smartphonemad posted on 21 Jul 2012, 04:38 0
^ignore this... It was a reply to an earlier comment but I typed in the wrong space :s
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