{"id":608,"date":"2010-09-06T21:58:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T21:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lessradiation.co.uk\/?p=608"},"modified":"2010-09-06T21:58:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T21:58:28","slug":"some-extra-thoughts-on-smart-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/09\/06\/some-extra-thoughts-on-smart-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Extra Thoughts On Smart Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For quite some time we&#8217;ve insisted that WiFi routers &#038; Dect cordless home phones are the big enemy in electrosmog terms &#8211; if you stay at home they&#8217;re both blasting you constantly. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve always said that mobile phones only radiate when you&#8217;re actually speaking on them. A regular mobile will talk to the mast for maybe 10 seconds every 15 minutes in standby. <\/p>\n<p>However, after playing around with a Google 3G smartphone for 6 months now (and owning an electrosmog detector), i&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that smartphones fully loaded with various apps are just about as bad as a WiFi router stuck in your pocket &#8211; this is bad, very bad. <\/p>\n<p>On my own Google Nexus One that means Google Mail checking in every minute, and every other network aware application doing the same. <\/p>\n<p>Our heartfelt advice is to make sure you&#8217;re on the network that gets the easiest signal. Compare Sims from different providers and then get a PAC code and switch as soon as you can. If your smartphone is constantly switching between GSM &#038; 3G that&#8217;s no good for you, at all. <\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve done that you need to turn off all the apps that are transmitting data in the background. Googlemail will constantly check for new mail &#8211; but on my Android OS phone it won&#8217;t if I turn off &#8216;Background Sync&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>Also, the latest versions of Android support setting up your phone as a portable WiFi hotspot. Please make sure this is turned off again, once you&#8217;ve finished using it, otherwise your leg will be getting full of unwanted RF signal. Better still, stick your phone in Aircraft mode. <\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t hold the phone next to your head to hold conversations &#8211; or keep it in a trouser pocket &#8211; this advice probably doesn&#8217;t matter too much.<\/p>\n<p>Further away from your body the better. Every time the distance from your body doubles the absorbed signal halves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For quite some time we&#8217;ve insisted that WiFi routers &#038; Dect cordless home phones are the big enemy in electrosmog terms &#8211; if you stay at home they&#8217;re both blasting you constantly. We&#8217;ve always said that mobile phones only radiate when you&#8217;re actually speaking on them. A regular mobile will talk to the mast for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}