We have become a nation of mobile phone addicts. There are more phones in the US today than there are people. Everywhere you look from babies to the elderly, a mobile phone is never far away. With fantastic cameras, huge storage, millions of apps, and games galore, mobile phones are little handheld computers that let you do just about anything you want.
The market for new devices has become cut throat with manufacturers battling for your dollars and trying to impress you with a faster processor, higher megapixel cameras or screens with a higher pixel density rate than the eye can even detect. And yet perhaps the most important feature of all is the one that nobody mentions and even tries to sweep under the carpet. The experts cannot decide whether the radio waves that are emitted by your phone whilst it communicates with the cell tower are dangerous. Opinions are split as to whether or not these emissions are cancer causing. I am just as confused as everyone else, but what I will say is that the government have set a maximum emissions level for some reason.
These levels are called the SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) and that enables you as a user to make a more intelligent buying decision. The lower the rate the safer the phone, at least in theory. Now only you know how much you make use of your phone, but when you consider where you keep it when it’s not in use the more often it spends time in your trouser pocket or shirt pocket the greater the risk. The list of the top five phones in the US with the highest SAR may actually shock you.
1) Motorola Droid Maxx, SAR 1.54. Sold by Verizon Wireless
2) Motorola Droid Ultra, SAR 1.54. Sold by Verizon Wireless
3) Motorola Moto E, SAR 1.5
4) Alcatel One Touch Evolve, SAR 1.49. Sold by T-Mobile
5) Huawei Vitria, SAR 1.49. Sold by metroPCS
The legal maximum Sar is 1.6, so some of these phones are very close to that limit. And the interesting point to note here is that the number one on the list is one of the more expensive phones on the market. So it is not always a case of this only applying to the cheaper phones. This article is not meant to shock or worry you, but rather to educate you, so that you have all the available information prior to making your purchase, or at least, know the appropriate questions to ask.