Isaiah Beard wrote:
>> Dean wrote:
>>> A while back some on this list engaged in a lively debate about cell
>>> phone radiation risks. This article may have some information of
>>> interest to those of you who think this issue isn't dead yet.
>>> The cell phone industry: Big Tobacco 2.0?
>>> By Molly Wood, senior editor, CNET.com
>>> Tuesday, March 8, 2005
>> Oh, C|Net. Now we KNOW it's quality journalism.
>> Consider that Ms. Wood readily admits she has an agenda (she has an
>> axe to grind with cell phone manufacturers over what she perceives as
>> "iron-clad control over phone releases and pricing, its
>> ever-lengthening contracts, and the annoying habit it has of crippling
>> Bluetooth phones so that [she] can't use them the way [she wants]
>> to"). I would thus take this with a heavy handful of salt.
>> E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
>> Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.
> OK OK, I'm not saying there's anything absolutely definitive in that
> article. But it seems certainly prudent to use a headset and try to
> keep the antenna at a certain distance -- just as she suggests toward
> the end of the article. (although I think I read somewhere that the
> cord of the headset can have some adverse effect too - one can only
> take so many precautions and still be reasonable:-)
> Regards,
The problem is that many of the headsets are now Bluetooth enabled. Those put out signals on what, 2.4GHz at relatively low power.