Where does your Phone Rank on the List? Are you frying your brain without knowing it??
The EWG study looks at all mobile phones, but since smartphones are becoming a standard tool for businesses and IT professionals, I’ve drilled down and looked at the list from a smartphone perspective. I’ve broken out the 10 smartphones that produce the most radiation, the 10 that product the least amount of radiation, and a list of the radiation ratings of some of the most popular smartphones that did not make either of those two lists.
When you look at these lists, keep in mind that the EWG has also included some older models that are no longer being sold but are still used by many workers and consumers. Also note that “W/kg” stands for watts per kilogram, a measurement for power density.
The 10 smartphones with the highest radiation
1.T-Mobile MyTouch 3G (1.55 W/kg)
2. Blackberry Curve 8330 (1.54 W/kg)
3. Palm Treo 600 (1.53 W/kg)
4. T-Mobile Shadow (1.53 W/kg)
5. Palm Treo 650 (1.51 W/kg)
6. Blackberry Curve 8300 (1.51 W/kg)
7. Blackberry Bold 9000 (1.51 W/kg)
8. Sony Ericsson P910a (1.50 W/kg)
9. HTC SMT 5800 (1.49 W/kg)
10. BlackBerry Pearl 8120/8130 (1.48 W/kg)
Nokia, with five models in this top 10, and Samsung with three, were clearly the winners in terms of smartphones that emit the least amount of radiation. It’s also interesting to note that although both of these companies produce dozens of different models, neither of them had a single model that made the list of the worst radiation offenders. The surprising member of the low-radiation club was the BlackBerry Storm (RIM’s first touchscreen device) since so many of the other popular BlackBerries were on the high-emitters list.
The 10 smartphones with lowest radiation
1.Nokia 9300i (0.21 W/kg)
2.Nokia 7710 (0.22 W/kg)
3.T-Mobile MDA Wiza200 (0.28 W/kg)
4.Samsung Impression SGH-a877 (0.35 W/kg)
5.Nokia 9300 (0.44 W/kg)
6.Samsung Propel Pro SGH-i627 (0.47 W/kg)
7.Samsung Gravity SGH-t459 (0.49 W/kg)
8.BlackBerry Storm 9530 (0.57 W/kg)
9.Nokia E90 (0.59 W/kg)
10.Nokia N96 (0.68 W/kg)
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