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it's Darcy like today we're here with android authority I'm here with a very kind gentleman named Gil Friedlander is the co-founder and CEO talk on which has some very cool technology that has to do with SAR another forms of measurement I'll let you live very little further but i want to thank you very much for your time today sir so pleasant Darcy I think great being here yes sir a bit about technology so talk on is a mobile application it's an android app that you can download for free for your android phone once you downloaded it runs in the background and detects when mobile radiation from your own phone spikes during a call once we detect these spikes we will provide you vibration or subtle alerts during the calls and if you look for a moment at the screen you will get a tailored suggestion telling you how to talk on continue the call and avoid that radiation and it could be changing your locations moving a few feet aside it could reduce dramatically the exposure to radiation connect an earpiece a Bluetooth or use the speaker so distancing the phone from their head very simple suggestions that allow you to avoid these radiation pieces so you mentioned that these only really occurred you know at specific intervals and if you use the best practices I think you can avoid the pitfalls of over exposing yourself to radiation is very true so it's it's important to say that from our statistics about ninety percent of the time your phone emits low signals and so very low radiation about five or ten percent of the time there are these Peaks specifically when you're in an elevator or in a basement okay sometimes within a car or a train interesting we let you know and alert you when these radiation pics occurred during a call and we also see that if we are able to save you one minute of high radiation during a call it's equivalent to five hours of exposure low radiation so if we let you know when it happens and save you that short terms it's very dramatic on your radiation absorption and so I saw on your blog that you can part listing essentially the top 10 worst offenders in terms of Sao what is SAR stand for and is the FCC or any governing bodies do they have consumers sort of bodies at best heart is in do they do the testing in their labs to determine the phone is not saved for sale or so the FCC's set a standard for the maximum radiation absorption that is allowed for the phone it's called saw it stands for specific absorption rate the maximum level is 1.6 wats 2 kilogram okay if a manufacturer does not comply with that a threshold it could not a market his phone what users are not aware that phones differ dramatically in their maximum level of sorrow so you can buy a low emitting phone or a high emitting phone on average the old blackberries are the highest emitting phones with this sour which is almost 1.55 it's almost the max the iphone is kind of average around one yeah the Samsung androids are very low around 0.3 so this is something that you're concerned with or you want to take some precautionary measures go and purchase a low phones are so you how long is talk on been around for and how many apples and users do you have so talk on has been around over three and a half years we have with our new version over a million downloads and it's going very very fast yes a good retention and great feedback from the users or think four point four stars on the android market that was very good right now so what what carriers made the greatest man aration radiation per capita in the world if you will what carriers or handset manufacturers use me handset manufacturers so so the highest ones or blackberry a Apple is kind of the average and Samsung or one of the lower ones did you have any time to test the z10 yet we didn't test it yet but we do see we do know the official test results of their phone and they're doing a much better job now in reducing their sorry missions yeah so now you mentioned up when we were talking before the wh 0 you know which is really a very respected you know government body obviously is this something that they're taking the heart and taking seriously the proliferation of mobile devices is it's almost absurd yeah so you know technology is great and the value that mobile phone is bringing us is really amazing yeah we would never want to forget have let them go and and it's important to say that science is not conclusive yet about the health impacts of mobile radiation with that said many research bodies are saying that there is issue that it may cause cancer lower sperm count for males a cognitive issues Wow the World Health Organization which is the most reputable body in this area last year classified non-ionizing radiation that mobile phone emit as a possible carcinogen yes now it's not definitive yet but it means that more research needs to be undertaken and it does suggest to undertake precautionary measures so to try to minimize mobile radiation as much as possible target is a great tool that provides you alerts and very simple tools of how to minimize that radiation obviously technology is not going anywhere so we need to have how to grow with it and so deal with it and the fact that you're working towards this end you know it almost feels like you're the protector consumers of all technology and they're sort of you hope to see ourselves in that way yeah very much that's why I wanted to say thank you very much for your time today perfect doors will stay in touch and I really appreciate your time Salah lender the pleasure this talk on here check out the android app you care of what radiation in your head but the best practices that you can employ thank you very much guys as android authority here live on the ground at Mobile World Congress parcel oh thank you