App Detects iPhone Radiation; Apple Nukes
Apple rejected an app that detects the level of radiation emanating from the iPhone.
It seems Apple wants to hide the fact that its lovable little iPhone could be eating your brain alive. According to an article over on TechCrunch, Israeli startup company Tawkon developed an app that analyzes the cellular radiation emanating from the device, whether its in standby mode, or while you're in a call.
Radiation levels vary depending on environmental changes, your proximity to cell towers, and in the way the device is held. Even blocking the antennae with your hand will cause the device to work harder, thus increasing the amount of radiation. Supposedly the app detects the various levels in real-time.
Obviously this could be useful information, however Apple has decided not to approve the app, claiming that "a diagnostic tool of this nature would create confusion with iPhone owners from a usability perspective." This explanation was provided by an App Store representative on a phone call with the Tawkon team.
Tawkon is currently working on versions for Google's Android and RIM's Blackberry platforms.
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I think App store would allow an app to detect the radiation from phones of other brands only.
Apple must fail! Please Microsoft, Google and Asus destroy Apple!
I am an iPhone user and I vehemently agree, apple must perish!
HAH! Total Recall awesomeness.
Someone should invent an app that detects the level of radiation emanating from Steve Jobs head.
Apple heeing and hawing about something. What else is new?
In other words, it means they don't want customers to know they are being exposed to a radiation that made the WHO advice people to be careful with (http://www.who.int/docstore/peh-emf/publications/facts_press/EMF-Precaution.htm)
This sounds sensationalist; I doubt news agencies posting this put much research into whether or not that kind of things is even possible from the app.
>>>Tawkon is currently working on versions for Google's Android and RIM's Blackberry platforms
Another words, ALL cell phones. I love the major opinion on this site and all of its narrow mindedness.
Everyone is an expert, everyone knows exactly how a company should be run, and they all have their favorite companies and the ones they hate.
They should make army men with company names on them so you kids can pretend to kill off your "enemies".
Proof people are getting stupider
In other words, the app is bullshit, and Apple PR is being nice. Maybe the authors can get a contract selling fake-ass "explosives detectors" to the Iraqis - I hear they'll pay $30k apiece for a plastic box with an antenna on it.
HAH! Total Recall awesomeness.
I agree lol, great news pic Kevin.
>>>Tawkon is currently working on versions for Google's Android and RIM's Blackberry platformsAnother words, ALL cell phones. I love the major opinion on this site and all of its narrow mindedness.Everyone is an expert, everyone knows exactly how a company should be run, and they all have their favorite companies and the ones they hate.They should make army men with company names on them so you kids can pretend to kill off your "enemies".Proof people are getting stupider
It would appear that you are an expert on everyone on this site, and and an expert on ways to measure "people getting stupider"
I don't know what country you're from, but in a free society, you don't kill your competition, you make your product better so you can continue to compete. Killing the competition is bad for the consumer.
people can be so unintelligent!
the iphone cannot have apps developed to do anything. The iphone can only use resources that are either on-board (eg. processor, accelerometers, camera, ect.) or remote information such as server-side databases. it is impossible for the iphone to detect radiation because it does not have the equipment to do so. this means the best this app can do is make a rough guess at how much radiation is being given off.
I think I will have to side with Apple on this one
Mobile phones have variable transmitt power.
This app would just read the value and present it to the user.
So it would be possible to determine the radiation quite closely.
The radiation emitted by the iPhone with the app is not hard to know. The app just need to have access to the electrical power used for emitting the signal with the iPhone antenna (and a formula to convert this electrical power to the radiation power, obtained during laboratory tests probably).
Are these morons comparing the app to a Geiger meter for real? Are you guys that stupid? Dont you realize that the app notifies you of scenarios when the phone is radiating based on tests that the people who wrote the app performed? Its simple, you take a phone, take a radiation meter, test everything the phone can do, and then make an app that displays level of radiation that you were able to determine through the testing. Its amazing that apple blocked this, proof that they have something to hide. I hate apple more every day.
Did anyone else find it funny regarding the fact that this app is supposed to determine how much radiation is being emitted while you're making a call, and yet because the iPhone doesn't support 3rd party multitasking, the app would close once you went to make a phone call?
In other words, it probably just has a table of pre-determined radiation values, and shows the user what the value is based upon the function type that they select.
Did anyone else find it funny regarding the fact that this app is supposed to determine how much radiation is being emitted while you're making a call, and yet because the iPhone doesn't support 3rd party multitasking, the app would close once you went to make a phone call?In other words, it probably just has a table of pre-determined radiation values, and shows the user what the value is based upon the function type that they select.
You can do anything you want on a call, except I think listen to music.. They actually show that in one of their commercials, since thats something you cant do on Verizon.
Mobile phones have variable transmitt power. This app would just read the value and present it to the user.So it would be possible to determine the radiation quite closely.
You are 100% right my firend. Its just like the countless other useless apps in the App store. iPhone radiation detector = FAIL
I think Apple has fair reason to reject this app. It's not actually measuring radiation, but merely guessing, not to mention the idea that this radiation is clearly dangerous is unproven, thus releasing this app would make everyone think that as they make a call they're "contracting" brain cancer. And sadly, many people would believe this. Even though it's unproven and stupid to assume it's completely true.
As for abowlofsoup's comment: It's true a lot of users here are trolls and have incredible biases, I won't claim to be an expert, but people here are incredibly biased and narrow minded.
50 years from now when people star dying from cell phone radiation this little stunt will be evidence that Apple know, and covered up, the fact that its product can kill people if not properly used.
An app cannot measure that amount of power being used by the iPhone's radio transmitters - there's no API for that. Also, how on earth does it know how far away the nearest cell phone tower is? Does anyone actually think about whether the app's claims are in fact possible before coming out with their "Apple is evil" opinions?
What type of radiation would an iPhone emit?
Report
-0+ .What type of radiation would an iPhone emit?
Gamma radiation. The late Bruce Banner used to use an iPhone.
I'm a newbie on using the comment system here. How do I get someone's quote to show up nicely like the others above??
The amount of radiation emitted by the phone (+ energy released while doing everything else) will be equal to the amount of electricity it consumes. Law of conservation of energy. You would know that if you paid attention at school...
dont just measure it, protect yourself from it ...
http://www.wisenv.com/
Apparently, Toms also lets morons register here and make posts. The person who wrote this article is not the one who made the app, dumbass. Did your mother drop you on your head when you were a child or were you just born this dumb?
- there's no API for that. Also, how on earth does it know how far away the nearest cell phone tower is?
Um My cellphone tells me how far away a tower is. It also uses triangulation to figure out where I am. So I would say yeah you are an idiot. Plus I think they can probably measure the power a phone draws. My Blackberry will display signal strengh in db which is a pretty good indication of power draw.
I also heard cell phone radiation is good for alzheimer's. At least in rats.
Apple got scared that people would find out that the radiation is what damages people's brains and turns them into apple fanboys LOL. J/K J/K
Wow! Apple really amazes me sometimes. Is it only that sees them acting like a bunch of nazi's not giving a damn about anyone but themselves??
They do make good cellphones though...once hacked!!
MUHAHAHA!!! (yes, I own the damn iphone)