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Don't put your iPhone next to your head
- burgerbrain 16y agoGimme a break. Non-ionizing radiation is non-ionizing. You might as well run in fear from incandescent light-bulbs.
- mrspeaker 16y agoTo be fair, you don't put light-bulbs less than 5/8" away from your head. Then again, they don't come with a manual that instructs us NOT to do that!
- ugh 16y agoLightbulbs might not, but lamps usually come with stickers that tell you how far away they should be from other stuff (presumably including heads). At least the three Ikea lamps in my room.
- petercooper 16y agoYour microwave pumps out quite a bit of non-ionizing radiation.
- burgerbrain 16y agoAnd my phone doesn't pump out near enough energy to scare any sane person. Convert it all to thermal and it's still nothing to worry about in the slightest.
- joezydeco 16y agoExcept all microwave ovens are inside Faraday cages.
- codex 16y agoGimme a break. Nitrates are just salt added to meat. How can they cause cancer? You might as well run from salt.
- ugh 16y agoAs far as I know radiation is not a problem and never was, I always heard that the problem was warming.
- sswam 16y ago"keep the phone 5/8" away from your body" they are talking about don't keep it in your pocket. Brief exposure next to your head while talking should not be a big problem. Actually I am very much concerned about mobile phone radiation, but I do think it's not actually going to cause cancer with modern handsets. The old analog phones were a different story. Don't talk on it too long!
- g_lined 16y agoThis is fairly simply explained: * There is one unit of measurement, SAR * There are two maximum permissible values; one for the US, one for the EU * Apple has chosen the higher of the two so they can make a better phone (more power) * They get away with going over the US legal limit by recommending you hold it further away than normal It should be noted that not only are the max SAR values different for the EU and US but they are measured differently so can't really be compared directly.