As much as we love the services cell phones and wireless services provide, we like to listen to warnings from scientists. The Environmental Working Group cautions consumers to limit their exposure to cell phones.
They note that studies find significantly higher risks for brain and salivary
gland tumors among people using cell phones for 10 years or longer.EWG has created this user-friendly interactive online guide to cell
phone emissions, covering over 1,000 phones currently on the market. The new fuller featured smartphones such as the myTouch 3G and BlackBerry Bold have higher radiation.
If you already have a high-radiation phone you can reduce risk by using a headset, holding the phone away from your body, texting, not using it with poor signals and limiting child-use.
Here are the top lowest emission cell phones from EWG:
- Samsung Impression (SGH-a877)
- Motorola RAZR V8
- Samsung SGH-t229
- Samsung Rugby (SGH-a837)
- Samsung Propel Pro (SGH-i627)
- Samsung Gravity (SGH-t459)
- T-Mobile Sidekick
- LG Xenon (GR500)
- Motorola Karma QA1
- Sanyo Katana II
Worst Offenders:(High Radiation)
- Motorola MOTO VU204
- T-Mobile myTouch 3G
- Kyocera Jax S1300
- Blackberry Curve 8330
- Motorola W385
- T-Mobile Shadow
- Motorola C290
- Motorola i335
- Motorola MOTO VE240
- Blackberry Bold 9000
Please watch the cell use of children. Here's something from EWG's executive summary:
"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)."
They suggest that:
The U.S. government should require phones to be labeled with their
radiation emissions at the point of sale, so consumers can make
informed decisions about the phones they buy.
The cell phone industry should offer consumers phones that operate
with the least possible radiation, and should make each phone's
radiation emissions available at the point of sale.
Everything can give you cancer including worrying that your phone could. Maybe we should just stop having babies because you could get ovarian or breast cancer. PEOPLE LISTEN - There is no conclusive proof that cell phones can give you cancer, people have been getting brain tumors since before Alexander Graham Bell was born. I am not going to give up my cell phone, I have a Straight Talk unlimited talk, text and 30mb of data and I am not afraid to use it because life is there to be lived.