How does pong iphone case work

You can get the case in a few colors and styles, though Pong supports only a handful of smartphones at the time of this writing. Pong says it will support more phones in the coming months. Made of a hard polycarbonate called Lexan, the case snaps easily onto the iPhone 4.

The fit is secure, though I wish the top rim of the case wrapped slightly around the handset's bezel. You might think that's simply a matter of aesthetics, but I'm worried that the iPhone's display could hit the ground and possibly break if it were to fall face-first.

On the upside, though, the case isn't overly designed, with just a chevron pattern on the back. What it does Shannon Kennedy, Pong's president and CEO, said the purpose of the case is not to cut down on the amount of RF energy that comes from a phone again, that would make the phone work harder , but rather to redirect and redistribute it away from your head. Normally, when you're on a call, the cell phone emits RF energy in all degrees from the antenna with up to 50 percent going directly into your head.

With the Pong case, however, an antenna inside the case interacts with the phone's antenna and funnels the RF energy away from your head and out the back of the phone. Kennedy says the goal is to reduce the amount of radiation absorbed by the head by at least 50 percent and up to 95 percent.

What's more, as a phone shifts frequency bands and power levels, the case will adjust to the increased or decreased radiation level accordingly. Though Kennedy says his company isn't making claims about whether cell phone radiation is absolutely dangerous, he doesn't buy the notion that it's completely safe, either. As he explains it, the Pong case is simply a way to reduce excessive exposure while research continues.

We're pro-cell phone, but we're about making a safe device safer. So does it work? That, of course, is the big question. And when Pong first introduced its product back in , some gadget reviewers weren't impressed. Wired magazine, for instance, first called Pong's product "snake oil.

During such a test, the phone is positioned next to a dummy human at close to, though not exactly , the distance at which a real person would hold a cell phone. The head's shell is plastic, but inside it's filled with gel to resemble the density of a human brain. A simulated call is then placed and equipment measures the highest Specific Absorption Rate, or SAR, caused by the phone's emissions for an alternative look at the testing process, see my look inside Sprint's testing labs in Kansas.

Unfortunately, I couldn't go to down to Cetecom this week, but Kennedy sent along test results that his company has had run at the same lab. With the headphones, radiation travels up the copper wire, through the ear buds and into the brain.

And Bluetooth contains a radiation emitting component even potentially more dangerous as most people tend to wear hands free devices for hours, right next to the brain, not taking them on and off for each call.

Do your homework, please. As I stated in the beginning of the review I do not see wireless radiation as an issue. I am sure if worked on extremes I could make a case for not using a cell phone at all based in wireless radiation, but I find the issue of wireless radiation very far down on my list of issues to be concerned with when dealing with my mobile phone. I am sorry you feel that I am ignorant because my views my differ from yours, but without out any further definitive government guidelines pertaining to the use of cell phones and wireless radiation to change my mind, I stand by my statement.

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All phone manufacturers must have their devices tested using this same technology and meet regulatory exposure minimums. Basically what happens, is a phone is placed against the head of a dummy, whose properties closely resemble that of a human head. Probes inside the dummy are able to record how much radiation is being absorbed.

So images and readings are taken while the phone is being called, and against the head of the dummy. Then those same readings are taken again with the Alara case installed to show the difference. You can see this testing in action in the Brinkcase video below:. I made a phone call with the case off and recorded spikes in RF radiation.

I then made a phone call with the Alara case on and again recorded the RF radiation. I really hope you found my review helpful, if you did, please consider sharing! I am so passionate about spreading this crucial information. If you need anything, just shoot me an email at [email protected] and I'll do everything I can to help.

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