{"id":17516,"date":"2012-05-29T12:45:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T03:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=17516"},"modified":"2012-05-29T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T03:45:21","slug":"the-worlds-first-geiger-counter-cellphone-announced-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-worlds-first-geiger-counter-cellphone-announced-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s First Radiation Counter Cellphone Announced In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/softbank-107sh-radiaion-counter-cellphone.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/softbank-107sh-radiaion-counter-cellphone.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"softbank-107sh-radiaion-counter-cellphone\" width=\"187\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17518\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSoftbank announced today(May 29) that they would ship <a href=\"http:\/\/i.mb.softbank.jp\/mb\/smartphone\/product\/107sh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pantone 5<\/a>(107SH) the world&#8217;s first smartphone with radiation measure feature in July.<br \/>\nBy this Sharp&#8217;s made Android 4.0 smartphone, you may measure gamma rays in the 0.05\u03bcSv\/h to 9.99\u03bcSv\/h range just by pressing the dedicated button for long. You may let it measure periodically and plot the history on map.<br \/>\nAfter the Eastern Japan Disasters on March 11, 2011, leaked radioactive from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plants has been worried a lot, and home-use radiation counters are subject to increase demand.<br \/>\nAs always as a Japanese phone, it has one-seg TV, wireless-touch e-wallet(Osaifu ketai), bluetooth and infra-red communication, emergency alert and waterproof (PX5\uff0fIPX7) feature.<br \/>\nThe cellphone also comes with <a href=\"http:\/\/i.mb.softbank.jp\/mb\/smartphone\/product\/107sh\/design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8 colour variations<\/a>.<br \/>\n[Update] It&#8217;s not &#8220;geiger counter&#8221; as some major English tech blogs describes, it is said to use a silicon sensor.<br \/>\nHome radiation counters have been causing lots of false rumors by inaccurate usage and wrong interpretations of measured numbers among risk-averse Japanese, who do not believe any measurement provided by government organizations.<br \/>\nThere is a background that Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son is showing strong interest in entering alternative energy business. He insists government should subsidize solar power generation business a lot more, which is being discussed now and the suggested aided-price is criticized too high by some people. Softbank said to Nikkei that this function is implemented by Son&#8217;s own decision as he received a lot of requests to his Twitter account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softbank announced today(May 29) that they would ship Pantone 5(107SH) the world&#8217;s first smartphone with radiation measure feature in July. By this Sharp&#8217;s made Android 4.0 smartphone, you may measure gamma rays in the 0.05\u03bcSv\/h to 9.99\u03bcSv\/h range just by pressing the dedicated button for long. You may let it measure periodically and plot the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-worlds-first-geiger-counter-cellphone-announced-in-japan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The World&#8217;s First Radiation Counter Cellphone Announced In Japan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[595,3030,3031,3383,3436],"class_list":["post-17516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-cellphone","tag-radiation-counter","tag-radiation-meter","tag-smart-phone","tag-softbank","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}