For anyone who puts much stock in those reports of
cellphone radiation causing cancer, we recommend you set down your Moto and slowly back away. Turns out Motorola managed to score the top eight spots in a list by CNET of phones with the highest radiation levels -- as tested by the FCC. The phones are rated by SAR level, which measures the quantity of radio frequency energy asbsorbed by the body per kilogram of organic tissue. Of course, a lot of these phones are nearly a decade old, but the two-month-old
C290 makes an appearance, and the list is headed by the
SLVR L6 at a whopping SAR level of 1.58W/kg (1.6W/kg is the max allowed). This could have something to do with the light weight of a phone like the SLVR -- though Palm's much heftier 650 managed a 9 spot -- but we're cooking up a few conspiracy theories right now if that turns out not to be the case. In all fairness, the top ten lowest-radiation phone list had a couple Motorola appearances, with the Audiovox PPC66001 leading the group at a SAR level of 0.12. Now where did we put that tin foil hat...
[Via
Healthbetold]
posted June 3rd 2006 6:07PM
I think W/kg means watts per kg body tissue - not per kg cell phone.
"Oh no, the SAR on our new phone is 1.7 W/kg and the max limit is 1.6 W/kg - let's throw in another 10 grams of unnecessary materials and I think it's ready to go right through the FCC testings" :p
Some of these phones havent been sold in years... Verizon stopped selling the 120c sometime in 2003. Figures that 2 of the phones I've had (120c and 650 treo gsm) are ones I have.
Some of these phones havent been sold in years... Verizon stopped selling the 120c sometime in 2003. Figures that 2 of the phones I've had (120c and 650 treo gsm) are ones I have.
Good thing I have a Nokia! ;)
But on a more serious note, it seems like everything we do these days is harmful. Wifi, microwaves, mobile phones, watching tv, eating too much. What should we do? Go out and sit in a cave????
anyone wanna trade phones...i got the L6. actually two my gf too
Caves are well dodgy. All that trapped radon gas...
"SLVR L6"
why doesn't anyone get that there is no SLVR L6!!!! it's either SLIM L6 or SLVR L7!!!!