Five phones with high radiation.

[Dondilion]

Whether this makes sense or not, I do not know.

Probably the next 40 years we might have definitive results on the effect
of cell phone usage.

For what its worth 5 phones with the highest SAR - Specific Absorption Rate, within the legal
limit.

http://www.yahoo.com/tech/if-youre-c...281813979.html

[Wasillaguy]

Also good to keep in mind that the RF pwr level out of your phone is regulated by the cell towers. If the tower is receiving at a low level, it sends a command to your phone to crank up it's transmit. This is why your battery doesn't last very long when you are somewhere remote with poor coverage.
Shielded environments will also increase your phone transmit level- inside a car, in a metal building, tucked between the fat rolls of an obese person, etc.
Obviously, the higher the transmit level, the higher the absorption rate. I assume this testing was done with the phones forced to max power out.

[Pio1980]

Samsung antenna design puts them well down in undesirable radiation, Motorola Droid was worst.

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[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

Also good to keep in mind that the RF pwr level out of your phone is regulated by the cell towers. If the tower is receiving at a low level, it sends a command to your phone to crank up it's transmit. This is why your battery doesn't last very long when you are somewhere remote with poor coverage.
Shielded environments will also increase your phone transmit level- inside a car, in a metal building, tucked between the fat rolls of an obese person, etc.
Obviously, the higher the transmit level, the higher the absorption rate. I assume this testing was done with the phones forced to max power out.

Thanks for the insight.

[merrylander]

One of the reasons (among many) that we don't have them.

[finnbow]

If one is concerned about this (I'm not), a bluetooth earbud will solve the problem.

[Wasillaguy]

Bluetooth earbuds would get the RF away from your skull, but if the phone's in your pocket, your body is still absorbing the signal to the tower, which is in the 900MHz range.
When you turn on Bluetooth, your cell is now also transmitting at ~2.45GHz, although at a much lower power level. Note that if it's a two way Bluetooth device (has a mic) the earbud device is also transmitting at 2.45GHz.
So, Bluetooth is a good idea, as long as you set the phone down several feet away, but that makes staying mobile pretty clunky- every time you want to move to another room, you have to go pick up the phone and find a spot to set it in the next location.

Between health concerns, privacy concerns, ID theft concerns, addiction concerns, and the loss of face to face interpersonal interaction, and the highway robbery plan rates, I'd love to see people shun them. I don't think it will ever happen though.
Personally, if I didn't need it for work, I'd not have one. Some day...

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

Between health concerns, privacy concerns, ID theft concerns, addiction concerns, and the loss of face to face interpersonal interaction, and the highway robbery plan rates, I'd love to see people shun them. I don't think it will ever happen though.
Personally, if I didn't need it for work, I'd not have one. Some day...

I feel it for my grand daughter....she is glued to this thing 24/7...geez!

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Whether this makes sense or not, I do not know.

Probably the next 40 years we might have definitive results on the effect
of cell phone usage.

For what its worth 5 phones with the highest SAR - Specific Absorption Rate, within the legal
limit.

http://www.yahoo.com/tech/if-youre-c...281813979.html

Does it matter?

Does anyone still talk on the phone?

Not many I know.

[Wasillaguy]

Originally Posted by noonereal

Does it matter?

Does anyone still talk on the phone?

Not many I know.

Your cell phone is still transmitting RF, regardless if you are talking on it or texting, or surfing the net. Even when the display is off and it's sitting in your pocket, RF is transmitting keep alive signals back to the tower.
Only when in airplane mode, or with the battery removed, is it no longer a transmitter.