Healthier Cell Phones

Low radiation cell phones are more desirable because of health
concerns, but which ones pose the least risk, especially to children
and other vulnerable users?

While American cell phone manufacturers have reluctantly begun to
voluntarily release emission levels on specific phones, it’s still a
daunting task to determine which phone is the healthiest of all, or
even if the phone you own is relatively safe, safer, or safest. It
would be nice if U.S. laws required cell phone manufacturers to include
radiation information on their printed materials and advertising, but
they don’t – and probably won’t anytime soon.

Cell phones, PDAs, and Smartphones, as a generic species of
electronic device, do raise health concerns – such as the risk of
cancer due to exposure to radiation. Recent studies have found
significant increases in salivary gland and brain tumors in consumers
using cell phones, especially over long periods such as a decade or
more. Excessive use of radiation-emitting devices, such as cell phones
(but not limited to cell phones) pose special dangers to children
because their skin is softer and their skulls less developed – and less
able to protect their younger brains from excessive radiation. A
child’s brain can absorb up to twice as much radiation as an adult’s
brain. Commercial interests involved with the manufacture and
distribution of cell phones and similar electronic devices – perhaps
the most lucrative commercial enterprise geared to consumers in decades
-- don’t wish to “rock the boat” with more conclusive studies. The very
idea that the ubiquitous cell phone might pose health risks is
controversial, especially to capitalists – somewhat in the way that
Global Warming was just a few years ago.

But while American industry and regulators are quite passive when it
comes to these touchy topics, governments in the UK, France, Germany,
Finland, Switzerland, and Israel have cautioned their citizens against
excessive cell phone use, especially by children. As far as radiation
emitters, the worst offenders are manufactured by Motorola and
distributed by Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular. Among ten phones
that emit the most radiation, half are Motorola phones, two are
T-Mobile, two are Blackberries, and the odd phone out is a Kyocera Jax
distributed by Virgin Mobile. Another Motorola model, the RAZR V8
distributed by Cellular ONE, ranks among the safest phones, oddly
enough. Except for that RAZR model, five of the six safest phones are
various models produced by Samsung.

Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone
Repair and iPod repair offering cell phone repair services nationwide.
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