Phone radiation

Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 10:00 CEST - Comments: 0

A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO)/Interactional Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released last week has revealed another potential health risk when it comes to mobile phone radiation. The report details that radiation transmitted by mobile phones is potentially carcinogenic, based on an increased risk for a malignant type of brain cancer associated with wireless phone use. What most people don’t realize is that there is solution to dramatically lower the exposure of mobile phone radiation using hands-free devices!

 

Mobile phone radiation

Just as people aren't going to stay indoors because they are afraid of sun damage, they won't stop using mobile phones due to fear of mobile phone radiation. With over 5 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide, mobile phones have become a part of our daily routine for communicating with others and are here to stay.  Using a hands-free device can reduce the exposure to mobile phone radiation by a factor of eight hundred, drastically lowering the exposure from max 2 watts from mobile phones to 0.0025 watts max output for Bluetooth hands-free devices and zero watts for corded devices.

 

 

Mobile phone radiation research

New survey results, sponsored by Jabra, show that despite the potential risk, people are not concerned with mobile phone radiation in their daily lives.

• 25% of survey respondents said that mobile phone radiation doesn't concern them at all

• 61% of survey respondents said that mobile phone radiation concerns them a little bit or to some extent

• 53% of survey respondents said they will use a hands-free device, after being informed that it is a scientific fact that using a Bluetooth (wireless) headset actually reduces exposure to mobile phone radiation.

• Nokia Bluetooth Headset
• Motorola Finiti Headset
• Jabra BT4010 Headset
• Sony-Ericsson Walkman phone