Cell Phone Radiation – Will My droid Kill Me?

Posted • November 12, 2009 • Comments Off

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Is Your Cell Phone Killing You?

cell phone killing you Being in business today means that you have a cell phone. How can you do any marketing or networking without being able to communicate with your clients on the fly?

In today’s world lightening fast communication is at the top of the expectations list. We all have our smart phones so we can keep up with our emails, phone calls, twitter, facebook, and the rest of our social media media. It seems that the perception is that if you don’t have a cell phone or even a smartphone today you are not really in business.

Recent studies link cell phone radiation to:

Brain cancer: Two research groups independently analyzed all data from 25 original studies of cell phone users, and identified a 50 to 90 percent increase in risk for two types of brain tumors: glioma and acoustic neuroma (Hardell 2009, Kundi 2009).

Salivary gland tumors: An Israeli study found an increased risk of 50 to 60 percent for salivary gland tumors among people with highest cell phone use (Sadetzki 2008).

Behavioral problems: A study of 13,159 Danish children showed 80 percent elevated risk for emotional and hyperactivity problems among young children who use cell phones and whose mothers also used cell phones during pregnancy (Divan 2008).

Migraines and vertigo: A study of 420,095 Danish adults showed that long-term cell phone users were 10 to 20 percent more likely to be hospitalized for migraines and vertigo than people who took up cell phones more recently. (Schuz 2009).

The Environmental Working Group has put out a pretty informative study on the risks of cell phone technology. The executive summary Cell Phone Radiation Science Review is pretty eye opening.

We at Environmental Working Group are still using our cell phones, but we also believe that until scientists know much more about cell phone radiation, it’s smart for consumers to buy phones with the lowest emissions. The U.S. government ought to require cell phone companies to label their products’ radiation output so that consumers can do the numbers at the point of sale. It doesn’t, so EWG has created this user-friendly interactive online guide to cell phone emissions, covering over 1,000 phones currently on the market.

Here are some high and low rankings according to this study.
“W/kg” stands for watts per kilogram, a measurement for power density.

The 10 smartphones with the highest radiation

T-Mobile MyTouch 3G (1.55 W/kg)
Blackberry Curve 8330 (1.54 W/kg)
Palm Treo 600 (1.53 W/kg)
T-Mobile Shadow (1.53 W/kg)
Palm Treo 650 (1.51 W/kg)
Blackberry Curve 8300 (1.51 W/kg)
Blackberry Bold 9000 (1.51 W/kg)
Sony Ericsson P910a (1.50 W/kg)
HTC SMT 5800 (1.49 W/kg)
BlackBerry Pearl 8120/8130 (1.48 W/kg)

It looks as though with 2 out of the top 10 T-Mobile leads the pack with the highest radiation.
As a manufacturer Blackberry holds 40% of the top 10.

The 10 smartphones with lowest radiation

Nokia 9300i (0.21 W/kg)
Nokia 7710 (0.22 W/kg)
T-Mobile MDA Wiza200 (0.28 W/kg)
Samsung Impression SGH-a877 (0.35 W/kg)
Nokia 9300 (0.44 W/kg)
Samsung Propel Pro SGH-i627 (0.47 W/kg)
Samsung Gravity SGH-t459 (0.49 W/kg)
BlackBerry Storm 9530 (0.57 W/kg)
Nokia E90 (0.59 W/kg)
Nokia N96 (0.68 W/kg)

At the other end of the spectrum Nokia leads the manufactures with a full 50% of the lowest radiation phones.
An honorable mention to Samsung with a 30% share of the list.

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Bluetooth radiation emissions

Will it help if I use my Bluetooth headset?

According to the findings and recommendations by government agencies and researchers in various countries, the use of Bluetooth headsets with cell phones decreases the overall levels of SAR exposure to the head.

(American Cancer Society 2008; BfS 2005; Martinez-Burdalo 2009; Swiss Federal Office of Public Health 2009a)

Just like the Environmental Working Group, we are still using our cell phones too.

The comprehensive study from the Environmental Working Group is available as a PDF download.

Late,
Gary Pool

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