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Your New Phone: Extra Radiation or Extra Features?
Most of us want the latest and smartest phones - but not at the price of high cell phone radiation. This season's good news: a batch of smart-smart phones: lower-radiation choices with plenty of features.
Environmental Working Group examined the radiation output (known as the Specific Absorption Rate or "SAR") and overall features of 80 new smart phones. Many higher-functioning phone emit no more radiofrequency radiation than old-school cell phones.LG QuantumSamsung FascinateSamsung MezmerizeSamsung CaptivateSamsung Continuum
Ultimately, Eilperin concluded that while we still rely on our cell phones, both smart and conventional, we should use them differently to reduce our radiation exposure. EWG recommends that consumers act prudently by buying low-emission devices and taking other steps to reduce cell phone radiation exposure, like these:
- Text more, talk less.
- Use a headset.
- Don't talk where reception is poor.
- And, most important: Limit children's cell phone use. Young children's brains absorb twice as much cell phone radiation as those of adults.
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