Apple defended its iPhone 12 model on Wednesday after a French watchdog ordered a halt to its sales citing breaches of European Union radiation exposure limits.
France s radiation watchdog, the Agence Nationale des Frequences (ANFR), has banned the sale of Apple s iPhone 12 in the country after tests revealed that the device exceeded European radiation exposure limits. The ANFR said that the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) of the smartphone was higher than legally allowed. France s junior minister for the digital economy suggested that a software update could rectify the issue.
LONDON (Reuters) -France's radiation watchdog has banned sales of Apple's iPhone 12 after tests that it said showed the smartphone breached European radiation exposure limits. The Agence Nationale des Frequences (ANFR) said on Tuesday the model's Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) - a measure of the rate of radiofrequency energy absorbed by the body from a piece of equipment - was higher than legally allowed. Jean-Noel Barrot, France's junior minister for the digital economy, told newspaper Le Parisien a software update could fix the problem.
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