We asked Dr. Arazi, President of Phonegate Alert, to review in detail the revelations made on August 21, 2019 by journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Roe in the Chicago Tribune and to place them in the overall context of the international Phonegate scandal. We start with the results of Apple’s iPhones, then in a next article we will discuss the results of the Korean manufacturer Samsung.
When and how did the contact with the journalist Sam Roe come about?
It is now more than a year and a half ago. I received an email in January 2018 from Sam Roe of the Chicago Tribune asking me for an interview. He had heard of the results of the specific absorption rate (SAR) tests carried out on hundreds of mobile phones by the National Frequencies Agency (ANFR), of which we had obtained a first publication in June 2017.
Sam Roe email to Dr. Arazi January, 29 2018
It was an incredible moment to see that a reporter as prestigious and acclaimed as Sam Roe (Pulitzer Prize) was interested in our international alert action. We continued to exchange emails on a regular basis for months, sending him all the information we considered important.
We never knew that the Chicago Tribune had chosen independent tests. We are very interested in these tests that are complementary to the tests performed by ANFR.
What do the SAR tests of the iPhone carried out by ANFR show?
To analyze the results we must divide them into two periods, 2012-2016 and 2017 to date. It was in the first period that ANFR decided to control the exposure of all mobile phones at the level of the body (SAR trunk, SAR extremities), at the manufacturer’s measuring distance (between 10 and 25 mm from the skin), then at 5mm (near contact) and finally at 0mm (contact), to be as close as possible to the uses of users, when the phone is held in the hand (contact) or placed in a pocket (near contact).
In real use, the SAR of the iPhone 5 at more than 5 W/kg
Take, for example, the iPhone 5, tested by Apple at 10 mm. The official SAR trunk is 0.825W/kg for 10gr. Then, tested at 5mm, it comes out at 1.453 W/kg. And finally tested on contact, the SAR jumps to 5.321 W/kg for 10gr, which is more than two and a half times the limit not to be exceeded in Europe (2W/kg).
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