Saturday, July 12, 2014

FCC symbol FCC eliminates need for text on devices’ backs

Are you familiar with that annoying text on the bottom of your device’s back? That includes all kind of certifications required on every device by the FCC. Now, according to recent
rule changes by the FCC, phones won’t be required to have that gibberish plastered all over your pretty new device.

Now, as we all know, for most people that’s un-necessary, and we seldom need to make any use of it. Since it does have its important reasons for which the FCC required it to be displayed, it is still required to have it on every device, but if the process of printing the labels on the device causes any damage to the device, or is too expensive to press, the company is allowed to have it digitally displayed, but with some guidelines.

According to the FCC, “Users must be able to access the information without requiring special access codes or permissions and, in all cases the information must be accessible in no more than three steps in a device’s menu”



What is your opinion? Do you find it particularly annoying to see the label, or could you not care less about it being there? Anyways, this is mostly done to ease the OEM’s lives when producing phones, and is going in the path of the E-label Act, which similarly requires the company’s to put the information in the phone’s settings.  

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