Cellphone radiation studies aren’t exactly easy to conduct, but there’s some seemingly good news that was published by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. A study conducted in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from 1974 to 2003 found no major link between cellphone use and brain tumors. They went so far as to say that “there is no increased risk” of brain tumors due to mobile phone usage, which is certainly a good bit of news.
One thought that struck me after reading this was “what kind of phones were these people using?”. Surely the iPhone 3GS with its insanely fast 3G speeds would have a higher SAR (specific absorption rate) than the stuff people were using a few years back? Then I checked this little chart on SARShield.com (they sell radiation shields for cellphones, but I’m assuming their SAR charts are at least reasonably accurate) and found that the 3GS seems to have a lower SAR than something as old and slow as the Palm Treo 600. That’s interesting, since that might mean that radio emissions from a cellphone aren’t all about the speed and power of the wireless radios, but also the design.
I’m assuming that another study that states the exact opposite (cellphones = super dangerous!) is just around the corner, but with this news I can start sleeping with the iPhone under my pillow again…at least for a little while.
[via Cult of Mac]
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