2y ago

Apple iOS Update to Fix iPhone 12 Radiation Levels Approved by French Regulators

www.macrumors.com

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... "Radiation Levels"
I cant stand this. While yes, technically radio and microwaves radiate from a source, we do not use that term to describe anything but particles capable of ionizing other particles. Phones cannot produce UV, Xray, or Gamma radiation. If they are emitting particles from radioactive decay, that would be a level of maliciousness.
Haha, what? This can be fixed via an update?
- power levels
  
  Does this mean my already slower iPhone 12 (due to battery age) will become even slower? Better than cancer, I suppose.
- Unless it's a hardware failure causing spurious emission, it just means that transmit power has been reduced in software. Practically, this will reduce the range at which you can communicate to the cell tower. The cell tower reception should remain nominally the the same strength and the same speed, but you will have a reduce range for towers to which you can reliably connect (i.e. dropped connections) because you can't tell the tower you're listening. Also, your upload throughput will be lower at a given distance from the tower as your distance from the tower increases beyond a (now smaller) full-connection-strength radius.
I would assume fixing radiation levels via software update can only mean lower radio power -> worse signal strength.
Because the article doesn't mention it: Will this update be applied to french iPhone 12s only or is this going to affect more phones?
Also, is this affecting the standard 12 only or also 12 Pro and Pro Max?
- What about 12 mini?
- or there are functional downsides to the fix.
  
  Just enough of a functional downgrade to comply with the demand and cause people to think they need to upgrade to the new iPhone.
Ministers later said that though the radiation level was above the accepted standard, it was not dangerous and people were safe to continue using the phones
So why all the dust? Blew into an international incident get me off this dirt ball!
In other news, the French have banned the sun.

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