Cell phone radiation in their pockets – no worries for BlackBerry users?
RIM, your marketing department is telling your customers to carry their phones in their pockets!
RIM’s radiation testing engineers know that encouraging consumers to carry their cell phone in their pocket is in direct violation of federal compliance guidelines. The FCC requires RIM to warn all users to never carry or use a phone closer than 1″ to the body when connected to a network or they will be exposed to radio frequency emissions that exceed the federal limit. RIM currently includes this FCC required radiation warning in all user guides, although they continue to hide it in fine print technical jargon in a section of the user guide that no one will ever see.
Warning consumers about the 1″ separation distance is a federal compliance requirement by the FCC…. to disregard this radiation testing compliance directive is a blatant violation of 47 CFR Part 15.
RIM is also ordered by the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology in its compliance testing grant documents that “End-users must be informed of the body-worn operating requirements for satisfying RF exposure compliance.”
Yet, RIM’s marketing department displays the following tagline on their website to entice BlackBerry Pearl users to tuck the phone in their pocket:
“BlackBerry Pearl – Carry Your Friends in Your Pocket”
(http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberrypearl.jsp)
So, RIM continues to tell us that it’s OK to carry your phone in your pocket, even if doing so exposes our bodies to radiation levels that exceed maximum federal safety limits.
How about RIM’s Pocket Pouch? Nope, it’s in violation of federal compliance guidelines, too!
Leave it to RIM’s marketing department to come up with another way to ignore federal regulatory radiation guidelines. If positioning the cell phone in a pocket against the body, the pouch does NOT provide the 1″ separation distance as required by FCC law, so it is therefore not a compliant use. To encourage their customers to use their products in a potentially unsafe manner is not an ethical marketing practice.
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