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[James]

Is it wise to consider such protection? How far from a person should the phone be placed at night when we are sleeping? It continues to radiate microwaves while we are sleeping and yet we need the phone reasonably close in case an alert comes in. According to the most recent Time magazine article, one should not have his cell phone as an alarm since it will be too close to his head all night long while it sits on the night stand charging and emitting microwaves. Lots of questions.

From all recent reports, the bottom line seems to be: keep the phone away from your head (at least an inch), text more often and try to reduce the time you actually speak on the phone, make us of ear bud devices to keep the phone at a distance, and don't carry the phone on your hip or in your pocket unless it is in a radiation-proof case. At night do not have it charging on your bedstand and use it as an alarm clock. It's simply too close to your head for your safety.

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[Antony]

Two things came to my mind.

First, few weeks ago, I watched Today Tonight, and there was a report on healthy concern of mobile phones. Without a doubt, there are some people more sensitive than others. And those so-called "experts" tried to make it sound like super serious.

Second, a few years back, there are an interesting protest in Australia... Kids (kindergarten) are protesting the selected site for building mobile transmission tower which was right next to the kindergarten school. Without a doubt, the news media is siding with the kids, and no media picked up this part: the shameful dirty tactic of the parents deployed. Using the kids to protest and trying to escalating the situation.

Back to the topic. We all enjoy the convenience the mobile phone provides. The study of mobile signal and the healthy is still not fully understood. I believe mobile signal would definitely affect certain things. However, even without the mobile phone and transmission tower, everybody is exposed to electromagnetic wave radiation everyday.

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[James]

I guess the bottom line is to try and use the phone judiciously. For longer calls, I'm now using an earpiece that is wired to the phone and keeping the phone away from my face at a reasonable distance. For shorter calls I bring it up to my ear without pressing it against my face. I try to text a little more rather than make all calls. And I'm not carrying it in my pocket since there have been no studies showing the effect these waves can have on one's organs over a prolonged period.

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[Antony]

Don't forget "speakerphone" can also be handy. I use the ear piece (wired) and speakerphone (when situation is convenient)... mostly for the reason that I don't need to hold up the phone next to my ear and frees up my hands.

A bit off topic:
Laurent and I are usually in different rooms (same house), and we used to talk via intercom (telephone with multiple handsets), nowadays, we either use iChat for video chat or FaceTime to each other.

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[Antony]

New research doubts link between cellphones and cancer

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) has published an article - Mobile Phones, Brain Tumours and the Interphone Study: Where Are We Now? (01 July 2011, full paper on PDF) - a re-examination of medical studies that cast doubt on claims that mobile phones cause cancer, mainly the WHO study from May.


source: New research doubts link between cellphones and cancer (electronista)

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[James]

This is very good news. Thanks, Antony, for the update.

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