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FCC Report Says Smartphone Models Don't Exceed RF Limits

Apple iPhone and smartphone models by Samsung don’t exceed FCC RF specific absorption rate (SAR) limits, reported the Office of Engineering and Technology Thursday. Chicago Tribune tests found some exceeded such limits. “The FCC takes claims of non-compliance with its…

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regulations seriously and commenced its own testing program of the implicated handsets,” the regulator said: “All sample cell phones tested by the FCC Laboratory, both grantee-provided and FCC-purchased samples, produced maximum 1-g average SAR values less than the 1.6 W/kg limit specified in the FCC rules.” The newspaper didn’t comment.