Tawkon’s app, which measures radiation emitted from handsets during phone calls, was rejected from Apple’s App Store last year.
The company has now come out with a redesigned app built specifically for Google’s Android operating system.
When Tawkon was trying to go the iOS route, the app put statistics, graphs and a big, circular gauge of radiation front and center.
The app measures a phone’s radiation levels by collecting data on what network band a phone is running on, the wireless antenna it’s using, and how hard the phone has to work to get a cellular signal. All this information is exposed by the phone’s OS.
Tawkon’s app analyzes all this data by way of a patent-pending algorithm, and offers up a real-time calculation of the phone’s radiation emission, and the rate of radiation absorption a user is facing. If the app determines radiation levels are high, it issues suggestions on how to talk more safely.
