What do the symbols on the back of your iPhone?

Having bought recently iPhone, beg the question: What do the symbols mean on the back of the phone? Security? Quality? Recyclability? After a brief search of the answer has been found. I think it will be interesting to you.

The first character - F to two C - it's one of the logos of the Federal Communications Agency of the USA. The agency regulates the use of radio spectrum. The presence of this sign means that the phone has been certified to the FCC.

The "garbage can" - is the emblem of the WEEE Directive. WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment). Members of the European Union adopted the WEEE directive, which obliges to dispose of electronics environmentally friendly way. EU residents do not have to throw out iPhone together with household waste.

The next character - the so-called "CE mark". CE - an abbreviation of Conformité Européenne, which translated from French means "European Conformity". The CE mark is applied only to those products which corresponds to the basic directives of the European Union. The presence of the CE marking on the iPhone means that your phone is safe for human health and does not harm the environment. Incidentally, the Chinese fakes is very similar sign, but otherwise it stands:

The EU has taken guidelinesThat regulate the production of various products ranging from medical equipment to the safety of children's toys. Check the products for compliance with various directives special registration authorities. Number 0682 means that the iPhone are certified to the German organization Cetecom ICT ServicesWhich tested the phone on the relevant EU directives, regulating the telecommunication device.

Finally, the last symbol - exclamation point in a circle. In some European countries, the wireless device may operate in a strictly defined range. In France, for example, gadgets assigned band of 2.4 GHz to 2.454 GHz. When the device is in the allowable band, it is assigned a Class I, when there is no - Class II. iPhone uses frequencies that are not permitted in some countries. An exclamation mark in a circle about it and warns.

The country code may be different to the country. Differences can be even between iPhones strapped to various operators. If you believe photos iFixIt website whose authors are regularly dismantled Apple equipment, at the back of the iPhone 4, tied to the Verizon, not at all characters.

sources: ars Technica, SmokinApps, Wikipedia