Phones that emit the most – and least
The FCC says the radiation coming from your cellphone is no big deal. A cancer surgeon friend told me he begs to differ.
While public health experts continue to debate the issue and the public’s own worries may be overblown, perhaps the best approach is ‘better safe than sorry.’
That’s certainly been the approach of the attorneys for the manufacturers, who have helped craft their mobile phone’s manuals and legal notices.
Modern iPhones, including the 14 Pro Max and the iPhone SE, recommend that their customers ‘use a hands-free option, such as the built-in speakerphone, headphones or other similar accessories’ to ‘reduce exposure to RF [radio frequency] energy.’
These radio frequency exposures, according to Germany’s Federal Office for Radiation, can be exceptionally high from some mobile devices — with a few energetic Android phones topping the list.
You have to wonder: What do the manufacturers know that we don’t?
‘People are addicted to their smartphones,’ according to Joel Moskowitz, a researcher in the University of California Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
‘We use them for everything now, and, in many ways, we need them to function in our daily lives,’ Moskowitz said. ‘I think the idea that they’re potentially harming our health is too much for some people.’
As the director of Berkeley’s Center for Family and Community Health, Moskowitz has made studying the biological effects of the radio frequency energy on the human body a research priority since 2009.