Top 10 Highest- and Lowest-Radiation Cell Phones
Published: Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 | 7:59 AM ET
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The wireless industry sued the city of San Francisco July 23 to stop a law that requires cell phone stores to post how much radio energy each model emits.

It's the first law of its kind in the nation. The industry trade group known as CTIA — The Wireless Association said the law will mislead consumers into thinking that one phone might be safer than another on the basis of radiation measurements.

Studies have not conclusively found that cell phone radiation is a health risk. Research continues on brain tumors.

* Poll: Are You Worried About Cell Phone Radiation?

According to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, specific absorption rate, or SAR, is "a way of measuring the quantity of radio frequency (RF) energy that is absorbed by the body." For a phone to pass FCC certification and be sold in the United States, its maximum SAR level must be less than 1.6 watts per kilogram. In Europe, the level is capped at 2 watts per kilogram while Canada allows a maximum of 1.6 watts per kilogram.

So where does, your cell phone rank when it comes to radiation emissions? See the tables below for the top 10 highest- and lowest-radiation cell phones sold in the United States as compiled by CNET Reviews.

To see the lists go here:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38415460/?__source=aoldailyfinance&par=aoldailyfinance

It's just a theory, but I think that it's all the extra microwaves we bombard ourselves with that is the source of most cancers. Microwaves excite cellular structure and with the raw amounts we absorb every day (from phones, radios, television signals, radar - all are microwaves) sooner or later certain parts of the cellular structure have to be affected. Most cancers that are problems today, weren't around 125 years ago, back when black lung and tobacco related cancers were the main types.

It's just a theory though, haven't been able to connect it all. We're so busy trying to cure all of these cancers I don't think anyone is asking what the causes are, but I think we are killing ourselves.

These 'studies' have been going on for years. Nothing statistically significant has come of them - they are therefore irrelevant ...

ahhh, for sure there will be more and more causes of cancer as humans grow farther and farther away from natural living. health is further impaired by bad nutrition. our natural t-cells that kill cancers are not functioning correctly,,,,,,cancer is not a disease, but our own healthy cells inability to kill abnormal cells. extinction may not be too far off

I remember back in the 90's when everyone was panicking that people were gonna get cancer from cell phones, but the irony is those same people wouldn't stop using them.

Hell I even remember people said the same thing about beepers\pagers. Hell do they even make, sell and have service plans for those things anymore?

One more example of the 'We're all gonna DIEEEEEEEE ... !' crowd at work ...

We don't - and CAN'T - live in a 'risk-free' world. Suck it up and make dem calls ...

If you die, well ... hope your minutes expire before you do.

'We're all gonna DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ... !' ... yeah - we will - but not from our phones.

I figured you anti-government people would be all over this. Considering the government allows the use of the public airways for free, and considering there is a constant barrage of signals going into every American, it would seem, by an extension of that logic, the the government is giving free liscense to any company to kill the citizens of the state.

Just an observation.

Ummmm ... not so much. Specious 'logic' ain't real helpful, and some of the premises here just don't hold water. That stuff about the 'constant barrage of signals going into every American', for example ... Really? From where? How do they get INTO 'every American'? What's the mode of transmission? What's its range? What's its frequency? That 'use of the public airways for free' ALSO extends to failed business models like NPR and AirAmerika - you ARE including THEM in your little screed, right ... ? Oh. No? Figures ... And that 'kill the citizens of the state' ... why, that's just too 'pweshusss' for words ... talk about hyperbole ... sorry, but no cigar here ...

Microwaves pass right through a person, and most non-metallic objects. How do you suppose you got you're tv signal when you used rabbit ears? All radio, radar, cellphone, and CB signals are just microwaves sent on different frequency ranges. Yes, all radio broadcasts, NPR and country music stations are broadcasting microwaves. They pass right through your body and into the person standing behind you.

The government hands out the license to use the waves. The whole purpose of the FCC. It puts restrictions on the wavelengths in which an object can broadcast. All of which is considered the "public airways." A license to broadcast must be obtained to use these airwaves, which means the government is licensing companies to send these waves out.

Microwaves are not limited to your kitchen appliances (which are shielded to limit personal exposure), but are abundant in a lot of things which we take for granted. Microwaves excite cellular structure (which is how you get hot water) making the cell unstable and produce heat. Eventually, if exposed enough this will cause mutations or defects in the cells itself (as stated by Valentia above). Exposure by enough of these waves over time has the potential to cause a variety of problems, including tumors and other cancers. Something which a century ago was considered uncommon. We have seen the numbers of these diseases rise at the same time we have been using microwaves in increased capacities.

To me, all I hear is spurious rhetoric from the contrary side, not scientific evidence to disprove my theory. To bring up liberal media as a failed example (even though I could turn my radio to 90.5 and hear NPR right now, meaning it hasn't failed) is not only irrelevant, but an attempt to polarize a topic that isn't even "left" or "right." And using such attempts to dissuade a conservative isn't much of an argument. Maybe you've mistaken me for a liberal left wimp, but just because I've got an education, doesn't make me a liberal. I'll be voting in my Republican primary tomorrow.