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Are there safety regulations or certifications for this? If so do smartphones usually pass them and does PinePhone pass them?
by t0astbread 6y ago
Are there safety regulations or certifications for this? If so do smartphones usually pass them and does PinePhone pass them?
- jolux 6y agoThere are an enormous number of regulations around this, if you look at all the regulatory markings on most electronics. UL and Intertek being the biggest ones for electrical safety. I really hope Pine64 has gotten those certifications.
- ColanR 6y agoI wonder, if pinephone were to sell a version that was an ikea-style assemble-it-yourself kit, would that still require those certifications?
- notatoad 6y agoAFAIK one of the reasons phones typically leave logic like this in a binary blob on an IC is because the certification bodies stipulate that not only does a device have to comply with safety standards, but it can't be trivially modifiable by an end-user to violate those standards. If you're marketing a phone where one of the advertised features is the ability to change the operating system, and the operating system is responsible for enforcing electrical safety, i don't really see how that's certifiable.
- SahAssar 6y agoThat's usually for radio emissions, not for stuff like thermals. Radios are much more regulated.
- megous 6y agoThis is the Pinephone's CE certificate: http://files.pine64.org/doc/cert/PinePhone%20CE%20RED%20Certificate-S19112602602.pdf http://files.pine64.org/doc/cert/PinePhone%20CE%20RED%20Cert... Would be fun to see what of those articles are safety related, and what do testers test for actually.
- sinepsinep 6y agoCE and CCC are the most important as they cover Europe and China.