France: List of cell phones withdrawn or updated for deception and endangering users (update 20 October 2023)

List of cell phones withdrawn or updated for deception and endangering users
By : Phonegate Team • 20 Oct 2023

There are now 45 models of cell phones, identified as dangerous to the health of users, which have been either withdrawn from the French market or have seen their Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) updated by software. The latest: the DOOGEE S88, the EMPORIA simplicity V27, the Iphone 12, the Motorola Edge, the Essential Clap 20+ (you have until June 30, 2023 to bring it back to Boulanger), the Xiaomi Poco X3 and the Logicom Le Swipe.

DOOGEE S88 and EMPORIA simplicity V27 withdrawn from the French market and recalled

The list of phones at risk from regulatory non-compliance continues to grow. In a press release published on October 19, 2023, the Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR) has just pinpointed two new smartphones for exceeding specific absorption rate (SAR) levels in the limbs.

On reading the test reports for the two cell phones (DOOGEE S88, EMPORIA simplicity V27), our NGO notes once again that the agency waited some ten months before publicly informing users. More problematically, as with the iPhone 12, the tests carried out by the German laboratory Cetecom Advanced do not reveal the said overruns.

Why not? The ANFR, which we contacted, has still not replied…

According to the ANFR press release, the SAR of the DOOGEE S88 and EMPORIA simplicity V27 was measured at 4.23 W/kg, compared with the regulatory limit of 4 W/kg. This led the agency to make the following decisions:

“ANFR enjoins EMPORIA and DOOGEE to implement all available means to rapidly remedy this malfunction on equipment on the market as well as those already marketed. Distributors must also cease marketing their products.”

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