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Tawkon, a company that makes an application of the same name which is supposed to allow users to "see the level of radiation they are exposed from their mobile phone," published his app on Cydia, an online app for iPhone jailbreaké store, because Apple does the would not accept.

"[W] hen Steve Jobs personally closed the door with a sudden two words E-mail stating:"No interest,"have left us with no alternative but to climb through the window Cydia leave iPhone users see and reduce their exposure to radiation from cell phone"stated Tawkon CEO Gil Friedlander in a blog."."

Reason for Apple to reject the app Takwon, said Amit Lubovsky, co-founder of Tawkon and CTO in a telephone interview that he used private API. A representative of Apple had been dealing with the company had lobbied for the Apple to make these public APIs, Lubovsky said, but then the issues with iPhone 4 antenna resurfaced last year. When Tawkon has published a video showing that the taking of the iPhone 4 somehow could affect its signal strength, Apple focuses less on help Tawkon.

"We assume they did not want to deal with something to do with radiation due to this issue," said Lubovsky.

Questioned the usefulness of the app Tawkon, John Sedat, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF in San Francisco, said that it would be suspect on the app in the absence of more technical information on its operation.

"To be be very precise on what wavelength, one measuring", he said.

Effective measure of environmental radiation, he suggests, would require a dedicated external hardware. Tawkon app is measuring the radiation from a radiation sensor - Geiger counters are not included in the mobile telephony equipment, even if the idea is being considered by the researchers. On the contrary, the app attempts to measure exposure to radiation based on SAR data obtained through phone model tests, proximity to the phone user, proximity to the user for the cell towers and other environmental.

Lubovsky, said the app measures actual phone radiation exit test models. "Each device with Tawkon launched on the market is calibrated before the launch on a machine of SAR of", he wrote in an e-mail.

Yet the app, the company indicates in its Disclaimer, "is not a standard measuring equipment and therefore provides imperfect accuracy with respect to its results and indications." In addition, exit the software must be used only for reference purposes and does not replace a precise and professional review.

Lubovsky says that RIM had asked his company to add the disclaimer as a condition for inclusion in its BlackBerry app store. "I am certain that the accuracy of the software," he said. And stressed the UCLA Leeka Kheifets epidemiology Professor as an expert who has approved his business approach.

But if one accepts the usefulness of the app as a way to measure radiation, it is far from clear that exposure to cell phone radiation issues. Ionizing radiation, such as x-ray, can cause harm people fairly high intensity but this is not what cell phones emit. "Diffuse cosmological cell phone is non-ionizing", explained Sedat.

Data on non-ionizing radiation are not conclusive, who wants to say that most reputable studies have shown that cell phone radiation has no significant effect on human health. However, some studies suggest otherwise or demonstrate the effects on animals. Sedat characterized the situation as "a can of worms." The consensus among scientists appears to be that caution and attempt to minimize exposure to cell phone radiation is probably useful. But no one is really.

Lubovsky insists that his company app provides a useful service. "Tawkon believes in offering users the ability to 'see' exposure to radiation for the first time...". ", he wrote.In addition, Tawkon provides practical suggestions in real time, how to reduce exposure to radiation - as indicating the user to return to where they were, change the orientation of their phone (vertical and horizontal and vice versa), enable bluetooth and other suggestions. Users can also monitor their own stats to see how they avoided taking into account of Tawkon non-ionizing radiation exposure invites on the last call, day, week, months and six months. ?

Insofar as the application of Tawkon, which is available for iPhone, and Android, as well as Blackberries phones educates users of radiation as a problem and encourages them to take charge of the decisions that affect their healthIt is probably a good thing.

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