Smartphone measures radiation

The uncertainty in Japan after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima has launched a mobile service provider on a new business idea. There will soon be fitted under the name Pantone 107SH SoftBank 5 a current Android smartphone with an additional sensor for the measurement of gamma rays. The detector is made ​​of the radiation exposure in a range from 0.05 to 9.99 micro Sievert per hour. It might also be a sharing of the measured values ​​on social networks. Experts believe that the mobile phone manufacturer Sharp, however little. The measurement of radiation is relatively expensive in practice and ask for accurately calibrated equipment. Even a simple phone cover would falsify the results. According to initial reports from Japan could result in the same location vary by as much as 20 percent.