The Radiation Level of the Best Smartphones

WHO recently listed mobile phones as a cause to cancer. The declaration has made many phone users worried and skeptical, especially when previous researches still express many views and controversies.

The question if mobile phones could cause cancer or not has become a hot topic when the mobile phones were launched in the late 1970s. Approximately 30 studies have failed to find the relationship. However, a comprehensive study hold last year finds out that there is a slight increase (not very significant in terms of data) in mobile phone users that are at risk for a rare brain cancer called glioma.

In the US, before granting permission to sell mobile phones to the market, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) always check the specific absorption rate, known as SAR and it is measured by watts per kilogram. SAR is not allowed to be higher than 1.6 w/kg and manufacturers must provide a certificate from an independent lab to prove that their products’ SARs are safe. Researchers agree that the lower the SAR is, the less harmful mobile phones can be. CNet has posted a list of phones with high levels of radiation on the market. Let’s check it out and get another phone if you are owning one of them.

iPhone 7

Model A1660, A1780

1.6 W/kg (over 1 g) SAR Limit
Head: 1.19
Body: 1.20

2.0 W/kg (over 10 g) SAR Limit
Head: 1.37
Body: 1.39

Model A1778

1.6 W/kg (over 1 g) SAR Limit
Head: 1.19
Body: 1.19

2.0 W/kg (over 10 g) SAR Limit
Head: 1.38
Body: 1.34

Model A1779

1.6 W/kg (over 1 g) SAR Limit
Head: 1.20
Body: 1.19

2.0 W/kg (over 10 g) SAR Limit
Head: 1.32
Body: 1.38