WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

As much as we love the services cell phones and wireless services provide, we like to listen to warnings from scientists.  The Environmental Working Group cautions consumers to limit their exposure to cell phones. 

They note that studies find significantly higher risks for brain and salivary gland tumors among people using cell phones for 10 years or longer.EWG has created this user-friendly interactive online guide to cell phone emissions, covering over 1,000 phones currently on the market. The new fuller featured smartphones such as the myTouch 3G and BlackBerry Bold have higher radiation.

If you already have a high-radiation phone you can reduce risk by using a headset, holding the phone away from your body, texting, not using it with poor signals and limiting child-use.

Here are the top lowest emission cell phones from EWG:

"Behavioral problems: A study of 13,159 Danish children showed 80 percent elevated risk for emotional and hyperactivity problems among young children who use cell phones and whose mothers also used cell phones during pregnancy (Divan 2008)."

They suggest that:

The U.S. government should require phones to be labeled with their radiation emissions at the point of sale, so consumers can make informed decisions about the phones they buy.

The cell phone industry should offer consumers phones that operate with the least possible radiation, and should make each phone's radiation emissions available at the point of sale.