Safety Guidelines
Consumer Information on SAR
(Specifi c Absorption Rate)
This Model Phone Meets the Government's
Requirements for Exposure to Radio Waves.
Your wireless phone is a radio transmitter and
receiver. It is designed and manufactured not
to exceed the emission limits for exposure to
radio frequency (RF) energy set by the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) of the
U.S. Government. These limits are part of
comprehensive guidelines and establish permitted
levels of RF energy for the general population.
The guidelines are based on standards that were
developed by independent scientific organizations
through periodic and thorough evaluation of
scientific studies. The standards include a
substantial safety margin designed to assure the
safety of all persons, regardless of age and health.
The exposure standard for wireless mobile phones
employs a unit of measurement known as the
Specific Absorption Rate, or SAR. The SAR limit
set by the FCC is 1.6W/kg.
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*Tests for SAR are conducted using standard
operating positions specified by the FCC with the
phone transmitting at its highest certified power
level in all tested frequency bands. Although SAR
is determined at the highest certified power level,
the actual SAR level of the phone while operating
can be well below the maximum value. Because
the phone is designed to operate at multiple
power levels to use only the power required to
reach the network, in general, the closer you are
to a wireless base station antenna, the lower the
power output.
Before a phone model is available for sale to the
public, it must be tested and certified to the FCC
that it does not exceed the limit established by
the government-adopted requirement for safe
exposure. The tests are performed in positions and
locations (e.g., at the ear and worn on the body) as
required by the FCC for each model. The highest
SAR value for this model phone when tested for
use at the ear is 0.998 W/kg and when worn
on the body, as described in this user's manual,
is 1.20 W/kg. (Body-worn measurements differ
among phones models, depending upon available
accessories and FCC requirements.) While there
may be differences between SAR levels of various
phones and at various positions, they all meet the
government requirement for safe exposure.