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iPhone Receives FCC Approval
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No - they were just saying 'we can't approve this if you won't let us read the User Manual! Send us another one without a password you dopes!' - thus new PDF's were submitted on 5/11/07 and they will not be available to the public until 7/1/2007...
Now what is this''late june" nonsense from Apple! That''s why the 'negative' votes -- Supposed to be Mid-June... right after Steve stops talking... or at least that friday...
Though hopefully they will be busy with new hardware updates across the line including a new iPod ...
Most people don't like to pay exbortitant roaming fees. International sims are cheaper and many swear by them.
Well, there's no need for "hoping" - the SAR values are exactly what the FCC just tested. The iPhone has a max value of 0.97 W/kg. That's rather on the high side - my current Blackberry 7290 is somehwere down at 0.3 max - meaning the iphone puts 3x more radiation into my head than my current hand set.
Given the slim form-factor of the phone, however, the 0.97 isn't that high when compared to models by other makers. The new Blackberry Curve is at 1.5, for example (1.6 being the max the FCC allows).
I personally wouldn't use the phone without a headset (bluetooth or wired) - while high SAR values are generally ignored in the US, 0.97 may actually seem very high for European standards. While it's pretty unlikely that the radiation actually causes any damage (the first of the long-term studies initiated by the WHO doesn't indicate any kind of damage), I still think it's better safe than sorry here.
The FCC also tested what happens when you listen to music through a headset while downloading stuff over (E)GPRS and found that radiation is transmitted through the headset but levels are significantly lower.
Just go ahead and actually read the results in the document - it's all in there.
Haven't read all posts so someone else may have asked, but...
Apple's website needs updating?!
This disclaimer...
"This device has not been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission. This device is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased, until authorization is obtained."
found on the bottom of all Apple's iPhone web pages starting with www.apple.com/iphone/, wonder when it will be changed or is more approval needed?
Self Edit - Disregard my post, someone beat me to it and on Page 1 of comments of all places. That's what I get for not reading posts... My apologies to all.
FCC Documents indicate that Apple has received FCC approval for the iPhone.
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Apple submitted the documents to the FCC on March 8th. Approval was granted today, May 17.
Apple's website needs updating?!
This disclaimer...
"This device has not been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission. This device is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased, until authorization is obtained."
found on the bottom of all Apple's iPhone web pages starting with www.apple.com/iphone/, wonder when it will be changed or is more approval needed?
Self Edit - Disregard my post, someone beat me to it and on Page 1 of comments of all places. That's what I get for not reading posts... My apologies to all.
Unless you're the one...
It wouldn't be lame if you were the one alive due to the pacemaker, that is if this silly 17 year old tests are accurate and indeed iPods stop pacemakers.
How may iPods out there, since the year 2001???
Like a long tail cat in a room filled with rocking chairs!!!
Chances would be better if Pacemakers were only affected by Zunes, then one might have a chance!
It wouldn't be lame if you were the one alive due to the pacemaker, that is if this silly 17 year old tests are accurate and indeed iPods stop pacemakers.
How may iPods out there, since the year 2001???
Like a long tail cat in a room filled with rocking chairs!!!
Chances would be better if Pacemakers were only affected by Zunes, then one might have a chance!
Isn't Sprint a CDMA-service? In that case, it's not gonna happen. iPhone is GSM, and for a good reason: GSM is the most popular cell-phone tech in the world, and by a wide margin.
By the way... Apple's iPhone division... you suck!
No, it's Sprint that sucks. They are using a technology that should have been killed off years ago. GSM is the de facto standard.
GSM is old technology. Although it represents 82.4% of all global mobile connections, the current global rollout is 3G (UMTS/WCDMA/EDGE). WCDMA take-up is faster than GSM was at the same stage of its introduction in 1991. If the US wasn't so behind in technology (any technology), the iPhone would have had UMTS. Like you said, that's why they're releasing a GSM only version now and 3G version in 2008 for Asia.
You've got it backwards! Again, GSM is OLD technology. They should have killed off GSM years ago.
Well, yes, but 3G is the successor of GSM. When I talked of GMS, I was including 3G in it, since 3G is the "next generation" GSM.
When I talked of GSM, I was talking about GSM and it successor (WCDMA). CDMA is a whole different ballgame. And GSM is being replaced as we speak by 3G. And if we talk of CDMA and GSM (which we were talking about), it's CDMA that should be killed off. It's used in handful of places. If you want true interoperability, GMS and it's successors is the way to go.
Excuse you. Cingular has an UMTS/HSDPA 3g network that covers most metropolitan areas and more. Apple's the one that didn't include it with the iPhone. But pretty much the majority of Cingular smartphones come with 3g.
edit: the above is mostly the reason why so many people are infuriated with lack of 3g in the iPhone...it exists, a LOT of phones support it (for one, the blackjack, for which I have seen too many ads...), Cingular already has a network that's growing constantly. Why the &*#$ apple didn't think it shoulda gone in the first rev iPhone is beyond me.
Oh...now I understand what you're saying.
You're right, it's an oversight by me. My apologies.
I totally agree! I scratch my head each time I read the iPhone specs.
Only ATT smartphones/PDAs that come with 3G are the 8525, Blackjack and the TREO 750, but those 2 don't have wifi. The 8525 is also $399 with contract. Pearl, 8800, 8700, E62, 680, 720, 8125, etc... don't have what the iphone has, and none have 2 GIGS or more of internal memory. For what you are getting it's really a pretty good deal, if that is the kind of device you need.
I'll tell you why 3G won't be so important on June 9th.
I'll tell you why 3G won't be so important on June 9th.
I doubt Apple can bring the iPhone to Europe in matter of weeks from now.
That time frame is simply not possible. There are many EU regulations and directives at work here that Apple has to go through and register -- for example, the EU WEEE and RoHS directives.
So, the time frame for last quarter of this year sound more plausible.
That time frame is simply not possible. There are many EU regulations and directives at work here that Apple has to go through and register -- for example, the EU WEEE and RoHS directives.
So, the time frame for last quarter of this year sound more plausible.