If you absolutely must use a mobile phone each day and for extended periods of time (like me, for example), it may pay off in the long run to minimize radiation exposure.
There may be some truth in various studies showing increased cancer risk after 10 years of heavy phone usage. One could reason that:
- "if it's not found in nature than we are not adapted to it". While the sun is micro-waving us constantly, it is not modulating that radiation. Some say the damage is caused not by the quantity of energy absorbed by the body (SAR) but by the rapid modulation for data transmission that , phisically, is rotating molecules in exposed cells creating friction and heat.
- "we can trust the mobile industri to pay a significant ammount to protect it's interests" . Hide or downplay health risks.
- this GSM technology is young and side effects have not yet been proved to be harmfull or at least minor (beneficial to the body they sure are not).
From the Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health) the recomandations for that would be:
- minimize phone usage and switch to sms where applicable
- use headsets and keep the phone away from body
- don't use in cars or shielded or poor signal areas
Does anyone know of ways to minimize GSM exposure and their effectiveness? Such as:
- corded headset, sure (bluetooth is another form of modulated microwave radioation)
- keep the mobile vertical (if the phones are designed to be used at one's ear, almost vertical, one could assume the antennas will not receive well when phone is horizontal and, as a result, increased power is feeded into the antenna)
- one could make a vertical belt or biefcase phone holder and coat the body side of that holder with a metallic film, thus preventng some energy from being absorbed by your body but almost certain making the phone increase power to antenna as 50% of incomming signals just dissapeared. Also keep phone with antenna (backside) away from your body. This one is too technical for me.
An ideea for the gsm industry: limit by software the maximum power delivered to antenna. Let's say limit to 65% of maximum. Is some cases connection will be lost until that spot has been passed by.The phone may beep to alert us we can not receive or send calls. The user may choose to ignore the impediment, or increase the percentage, or turn off this function and have the phone dinamically size antenna output to maintain connection (the phone does that every second). The phones are designed to work seamlessly for the user so they are not "concerned" with how much energy they radiate. The idea is that is should be our choice, as it is our health.
Please excuse my the pseudo-technical mumbo-jumbo and feel free to combat or expand on these subjects or any others related to them. It can only help.

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