New league table rates mobile phones' radiation levels
Worried that your mobile might be frying your brain? The jury may still be out on just how much of a risk handsets pose to our health, but a new league table published by CNET will at least let you compare your phone with others on the market in terms of their relative radiation outputs.
The scale includes most of the popular mobile makes and models in the US, which seems to cover most phones on the market here in the UK. It rates the specific absorption rate (SAR) of each phone, which is a measure of the quantity of radiofrequency (RF) energy that is absorbed by the body.
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Interestingly, the highest allowed SAR by the FCC in the states is set at 1.6 W/kg (watts per kilogram, while Europe allows handsets that emit up to 2.0W/kg. In the list of worst-offending models, the Motorola V195s, is the only phone to reach the 1.6 W/kg cap, and has the dubious honour of having the highest radiation level of any phone in the US. In fact, Motorola features heavily in the top 10 most brain-frying handsets, with no less than six of its phones appearing here.
The phone with the lowest SAR, meanwhile, was named as the LG Chocolate KG800, which emits 0.135 W/kg of radiation.
WOW.. This really makes you think.
Thank you for posting this.
Posted by: Lawrence Residential VOIP | November 24, 2008 2:36 PM