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Mobile Hazards

07/05/2011 6:00 AM

Does the use of wired earphone and wireless bluetooth device reduces the harmful effects of mobile phone.........

I have heard that even wired headsets (ear phones) can catch the radiations from atmosphere and hence not safe...is it true??

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Re: mobile hazards

07/05/2011 6:05 AM

So, why continue to use it if there is a doubt over the safety of the user?

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07/05/2011 6:20 AM

As far as I understand, the harmful "radiation" comes from the antenna area of th cell phone. This is where the signal is transmitted/received, not from a wire that conveys electrons to and from a circuit board. (But I've been wrong before.)

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07/05/2011 6:39 AM

The field is a few orders of magnitude stronger radially from antenna, but phone board forming a 'floating' ground plane emmits some radiation also. And it's true that plugging two wire antennas (that also produce sounds) IN your ears increases radiation that reaches your brain. But relax. The transmitter has some 5% duty cycle and 1W-2W max depending on band (worst case scenario at bad receprtion areas) , so for normal use, added risc is in control. And I stress 'added' because every individual has a different risc level that he adds to. S.M.

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07/05/2011 6:54 AM

certainly possible!!!

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07/05/2011 9:21 AM

In the profit loss analysis, Cell phones are not harmful in anyway ( with headphone or no headphone) if used for business and charity, yes they can be harmful and loss making if used to chat and talk with girlfriends,

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07/05/2011 5:25 PM

Although this may be not so smart, I agree with not so smart. The way I understand it is that harmful radiation comes from the cell phone antenna area. But to add to this, on my older phones I remember them having a "radio app" that used the head phone wires as the antenna for radio frequencies. So wired earphones might actually be adding to the so called risk, although I do believe this risk to be relatively non existent.

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07/05/2011 10:45 PM

Simple.

Use wired or wireless earpiece, and be done with.

Hint: cellphone produces watts peak, earpiece microwatts.

Are you able to absorb that much at least?!?

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07/06/2011 2:13 PM

Ok, you are right. I used an impolite colloquial term.

Here is the properly sanitized version.

1,. Pop the battery in your phone. Check its power against the known talking time on the order of an hour. Factor in power uses and inefficiencies, and you come up with milliwatts or tens of milliwatts of average radiated power. Not much more. And I challenge anyone on this wide world to MEASURE any possible effect on that. Do not refer to WHO, who VOTED on the matter. Baseline: your body is radiating at 100 Watts at rest. At a bicycle race, 300 Watts. Answers without such baseline reference are simply worthless.

2,. There is ionizing radiation and there is not ionizing one. The separation is conveniently, visible light. UV light is damaging (ionizing)at any level, while infrared can come from your fireplace at the kilowatt level, and all you get is warmth to bask in. Non-ionizing radiation is ONLY warms you, period. Microwave for cellphones is such, period. No DNA damage, nothing, comprende? Now, do not conclude from this, that kilowatts will not fry you. That is microwave ovens are for. It is embarrassing to even having to think of it for anybody.

3,. For perennial worrywart know nothings (and willing to learn nothings) I have a simple advice:

Please use pigeon service as preferred. But, if you must have a cellphone, and must have it on you, please park it over your well developed gluteus maximus (that is the anatomically correct name). There it is only capable to warm some fat, nothing important.

Use a wired or wireless earpiece conveying to you only microwatts. If that is still worrysome, please refer to para 1,.

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07/05/2011 10:52 PM

Sadly, not true. There is no danger from cell phone radiation. Those that say there is have a sales agenda. This has been tested very thoroughly and no dangers found. The people that yap about this also believe in homeopathy and that after 32 dilutions by distilled water at 10:1 their medication is effective - and they are happy to sell you some.

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07/05/2011 11:19 PM

THAT was my point too, exactly.

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07/06/2011 12:08 AM

That is why i keep two phones, one in each side pocket, so they cancel each other

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07/06/2011 10:29 AM

You could equate the danger of using bluetooth to living under power lines or standing in front of a microwave every time you use it. There is risk associated with everything. Is it better to do nothing than add unknown elements into life and presume nothing will happen as a "direct" result?

It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.

It wasn't the bullet that killed you, it was the blood loss.

No matter which side you are on with the dangers of cell phones, you would be better off limiting your use or by not using it at all. (Of course, everyone else around you is trying to kill you off, soooooo...it's like second-hand smoke.

You can't die from food poisoning if you don't eat.

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Re: Mobile Hazards

07/06/2011 10:39 AM

See this new article/study on cell phone radiation:

Link: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/02/study-cell-phone-radiation-increases-brain-activity-but-health-effects-unknown.html

Does using a cell phone affect your brain? The answer seems to be, yes.

Is that affect harmful? Still inconclusive.

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07/06/2011 6:00 PM

I think the REAL answer is that no one knows. My cancer radiation doctor said to worry more about be struck by lightning, or having a fatal car accident. I cite her comments, because she is a radiation specialist, not just some writer needing something to report on a slow news day. I have had a cell phone longer than anyone I know( 24 years next month) with no ill effects. - JHF

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