France : List of cell phones withdrawn or updated for deception and endangering users (updated 13 February 2024)

 List of cell phones withdrawn or updated for deception and endangering users
By : Phonegate Team • 13 Feb 2024

There are now 47 models of cell phones, identified as dangerous to the health of users, which have been either withdrawn from the French market or have seen their Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) updated by software.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 LOGICOM Flow, the EMPORIA smart 4, the DOOGEE S88, the EMPORIA simplicity V27, the Iphone 12, the Motorola Edge, the Essential Clap 20+, the Xiaomi Poco X3 and the LOGICOM Le Swipe.

New Logicom smartphone pinned for exceeding SAR

In a press release dated February 12, 2024, the Agence nationale des fréquences (ANFR) revealed that when tested by the CETECOM accredited laboratory, the trunk SAR of the Logicom Flow smartphone exceeded the authorized regulatory limit of 2W/kg, namely 2.09 W/kg.

Logicom is, to say the least, a repeat offender! In fact, five of its models have recently been nabbed for non-compliance with SAR levels (the M BOT 60, the HOLA, the SWIPPE, the PULSE and the FLOW). And the administrative financial penalty of 7,500 euros imposed on LOGICOM Swippe in March 2023 doesn’t seem to have had the slightest deterrent effect on the French manufacturer.

FLOW’s real trunk SAR is 5.25 W/kg, not 1.05 W/kg

A software update has been carried out, which, according to ANFR, has reduced the “trunk” SAR level to 1.05 W/kg.

Now, as we announced, our NGO Phonegate Alert has decided to systematically publish the data from our calculator (in beta test version for the moment) to enable everyone to measure the changes that need to be put in place at regulatory level to properly protect the health and safety of billions of cell phone users.

The actual trunk SAR value, as calculated by our calculator, shows a trunk SAR of at least 5.25 W/kg, nearly 3 times above the regulatory limit of 2 W/kg.

As for the “limbs” SAR level, it comes out at 6.9 W/kg, far from the indicated amount of 3.45 W/kg and well above the regulatory limit of 4 W/kg.

So many reasons to advise against buying Logicom smartphones!

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