Dual-Band
Sprint executives told me today that the new smartphone will be dual-band--that is, it will contain both a 4G/WiMax radio and a 3G radio. The phone, I'm told, will first look for a 4G connection, then default to a slower 3G connection. So if you live in a WiMax city (there will be 80 by the end of 2010, Clearwire says), you will get 4G until you leave your coverage area, then you switch to 3G.
Todd Rowley, VP of Sprint's 4G business unit, told me Sprint is currently in talks with a handset maker for the phone, but couldn't reveal details. Rowley also says Sprint won't begin selling the 4G smartphone until the Clearwire WiMax network reaches around 100 million people in the U.S. That's likely to happen in late 2010; Clearwire is saying it'll reach 120 million people by the end of 2010.
Then there's the issue of the app development community. Sprint and Samsung are both members of the Open Handset Alliance, which promotes Google's Android mobile OS. Sprint's VP of device and technology development Mathew Oommen explained to me that the Android OS is an especially good platform on which developers can create just the kind of rich media applications that will show off the fat (wireless) broadband pipe offered by WiMax networks.
What's So Great About Android?
Compared to other mobile OSes, Android lets developers write apps that more fully exploit the capabilities of the smartphone--things like the accelerometer, the high resolution display and the camera.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
First 4G Android-Based Smartphone May Arrive in 2010 From Sprint
After talking to wireless carriers, handset makers and analysts here, I believe we'll be seeing an Android smartphone (possibly made by Samsung) and sold by Sprint next year. Sprint openly confirms plans to sell a 4G smartphone next year, but is quiet on the maker of the phone and the mobile OS.
This WiMax-connected device will run three or five times faster than the 3G-connected iPhone (on a good day), and will feature a bunch of apps that fully exploit that speed (imagine watching high-def, no-latency SlingBox video on your smartphone).
Sprint has bet big on WiMax (it owns 51 percent of WiMax carrier Clearwire) and very much needs a device (and some apps) that will show the dazzle of WiMax and 4G networks. An Android smartphone running on WiMax would be just the ticket.
WiMax service is available in only a few cities now, and it connects only to USB modems for laptops, and a couple of portable wireless router devices.
This WiMax-connected device will run three or five times faster than the 3G-connected iPhone (on a good day), and will feature a bunch of apps that fully exploit that speed (imagine watching high-def, no-latency SlingBox video on your smartphone).
Sprint has bet big on WiMax (it owns 51 percent of WiMax carrier Clearwire) and very much needs a device (and some apps) that will show the dazzle of WiMax and 4G networks. An Android smartphone running on WiMax would be just the ticket.
WiMax service is available in only a few cities now, and it connects only to USB modems for laptops, and a couple of portable wireless router devices.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Motorola CLIQ: best Android phone ever
..continuation...You now get three onscreen dialog bubbles (at least that's what they look like to me). "Messages" collects all your incoming one-to-one messages, "Happenings" collects all social networking feeds, and "Social Status" aggregates all your personal status messages. Tap on one dialog bubble and you can swipe through all categories of communications, regardless of source, and you can reply easily via any source. For instance, if you get an e-mail, you can respond via text simply by choosing this option from a list in the message window. If someone writes on your Facebook wall, you can reply via e-mail. You can broadcast a blast to all your peeps on multiple networks, or just one. You can update your status on all your social networks at one time.
You also can opt to display dialog bubbles for individual Yahoo Widget RSS feeds. If you don't like swiping through sequential dialog bubbles — and you will — you can simply view them listed in a more convenient swipe-scrollable list.
All of these dialog bubbles can really crowd the home screen panels on the 3.1-inch screen, so Motorola has expanded Android's three home panels to five. Even still, any shortcuts you've dragged from the app menu silo to the home screen are apt to get buried underneath the multiple dialog bubbles.
MOTOBLUR also replaces Android's photo gallery with a far superior swipeable gallery with cool 3D transitions, not only from photo-to-photo but even as the accelerometer turns a photo to fill the screen. And of course you can broadcast one or multiple photos to some or all of your social networks.
Since MOTOBLUR's reorganization of the CLIQ's non-verbal communications is so radically different, it took almost the full allotted hour to grok it. But once we did, it was clear its radical efficiencies render mere talking an annoying inconvenience..End.
You also can opt to display dialog bubbles for individual Yahoo Widget RSS feeds. If you don't like swiping through sequential dialog bubbles — and you will — you can simply view them listed in a more convenient swipe-scrollable list.
All of these dialog bubbles can really crowd the home screen panels on the 3.1-inch screen, so Motorola has expanded Android's three home panels to five. Even still, any shortcuts you've dragged from the app menu silo to the home screen are apt to get buried underneath the multiple dialog bubbles.
MOTOBLUR also replaces Android's photo gallery with a far superior swipeable gallery with cool 3D transitions, not only from photo-to-photo but even as the accelerometer turns a photo to fill the screen. And of course you can broadcast one or multiple photos to some or all of your social networks.
Since MOTOBLUR's reorganization of the CLIQ's non-verbal communications is so radically different, it took almost the full allotted hour to grok it. But once we did, it was clear its radical efficiencies render mere talking an annoying inconvenience..End.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Motorola CLIQ: best Android phone ever
Physically, at 5.7 ounces, the CLIQ is surprisingly heavy, but it was hard to figure out why. You get Android's pop-up touch QWERTY as well as a three-line slide-out QWERTY keypad, which is easier to handle with easier-to-read keys than the keyboard on the first-ever Android phone, the HTC-made G1, but tougher to type on. The keys are packed tight and require a solid press to register. Along with a 5MP camera, there's a headphone jack, annoyingly missing from both the G1 and the MyTouch 3G. The rear has a sure-grip texturized rubber surface.
To minimize the number of hard buttons on the front panel and thereby create more room for the touchscreen, Motorola has removed the physical Send and End keys and moved them to the touchscreen, along with a Contacts touch key. To make the screen more readable and to save power, the display has an ambient light sensor to automatically adjust brightness. The battery savings goes to talk time — CLIQ is rated to get an impressive 7.5 hours
Even if CLIQ's physical amenities were awful, its exploitation and expansion of Android alone make it the new Android standard, setting a new paradigm for organizing the ever-increasing number of a cellphone's non-verbal communications. The philosophy behind the CLIQ and Motorola's MOTOBLUR Android-plus interface is that there's no reason to keep track of multiple social networking, messaging and e-mail accounts. When you initially set-up the CLIQ, it prompts you for all your e-mail and social-network information. It aggregates all the data from all these sources — all contacts with phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc. (but maintains the original data within their individual applications) to create on big, super-meta file. For instance, you can choose one picture of yourself from all your accounts to be your caller ID photo to others...continued..
To minimize the number of hard buttons on the front panel and thereby create more room for the touchscreen, Motorola has removed the physical Send and End keys and moved them to the touchscreen, along with a Contacts touch key. To make the screen more readable and to save power, the display has an ambient light sensor to automatically adjust brightness. The battery savings goes to talk time — CLIQ is rated to get an impressive 7.5 hours
Even if CLIQ's physical amenities were awful, its exploitation and expansion of Android alone make it the new Android standard, setting a new paradigm for organizing the ever-increasing number of a cellphone's non-verbal communications. The philosophy behind the CLIQ and Motorola's MOTOBLUR Android-plus interface is that there's no reason to keep track of multiple social networking, messaging and e-mail accounts. When you initially set-up the CLIQ, it prompts you for all your e-mail and social-network information. It aggregates all the data from all these sources — all contacts with phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc. (but maintains the original data within their individual applications) to create on big, super-meta file. For instance, you can choose one picture of yourself from all your accounts to be your caller ID photo to others...continued..
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Samsung Electronics Gains Phone App Chip Share In 2Q
Samsung Electronics Co. (SSNHY) gained share in the market for standalone applications-processing semiconductors used in mobile phones thanks to Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone, according to research firm iSuppli Corp.
But Samsung remained the No. 2 player in that segment behind Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN).
Standalone applications processors tend to be used in higher-end models of smartphones and the like, which require greater computing power.
The South Korean company's market share rose 0.8 percentage point from the first quarter to 15.9%, putting it behind Texas Instruments's 24.4%. TI's first-quarter share was 27%.
"Since the introduction of the first model in January 2007, Samsung has occupied the key applications processor slot in Apple's iPhone line," iSuppli analyst Francis Sideco. "With the new 3G S model allowing the iPhone to gain share in the smart-phone market, Samsung also is claiming a larger portion of standalone applications processor shipments."
However, Samsung's position could come under pressure if Apple decided to move sourcing in-house to PA Semi, which it acquired last year.
Among other players, Renasas Technology was a strong third, rising 2.4 percentage point to 12% share. No. 4 Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL) was the only top provider to see share fall, with a 0.3-point drop to 7.4%. STMicroelectronics NV's (STM) share rose to 6.6% from 5.7%.
All told, the top five providers hold two-thirds of the market.
But Samsung remained the No. 2 player in that segment behind Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN).
Standalone applications processors tend to be used in higher-end models of smartphones and the like, which require greater computing power.
The South Korean company's market share rose 0.8 percentage point from the first quarter to 15.9%, putting it behind Texas Instruments's 24.4%. TI's first-quarter share was 27%.
"Since the introduction of the first model in January 2007, Samsung has occupied the key applications processor slot in Apple's iPhone line," iSuppli analyst Francis Sideco. "With the new 3G S model allowing the iPhone to gain share in the smart-phone market, Samsung also is claiming a larger portion of standalone applications processor shipments."
However, Samsung's position could come under pressure if Apple decided to move sourcing in-house to PA Semi, which it acquired last year.
Among other players, Renasas Technology was a strong third, rising 2.4 percentage point to 12% share. No. 4 Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL) was the only top provider to see share fall, with a 0.3-point drop to 7.4%. STMicroelectronics NV's (STM) share rose to 6.6% from 5.7%.
All told, the top five providers hold two-thirds of the market.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Getting Lost With a Cellphone
..continuation...TomTom, which still receives 80 percent of its revenue from its portable navigation business but owns one of the two leading map providers, Tele Atlas, said the two-way communication aspect was why the company was looking beyond PNDs toward built-in car systems, wireless carriers and smartphones.
“We’re actually looking forward to the growth of navigation in other areas,” said Tom Murray, vice president for market development at TomTom. And he said he didn’t expect navigating cellphones to kill off PNDs. Some people will prefer using separate devices, just as many still own a digital camera even though most cellphones come with a camera built in.
On the other hand, the inferior directional skills of cellphones may not deter the majority of buyers. After all, iPods don’t sound as good as CDs, and cellphones still deliver rather bad call quality compared with land lines, but just about everyone has them..End.
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“We’re actually looking forward to the growth of navigation in other areas,” said Tom Murray, vice president for market development at TomTom. And he said he didn’t expect navigating cellphones to kill off PNDs. Some people will prefer using separate devices, just as many still own a digital camera even though most cellphones come with a camera built in.
On the other hand, the inferior directional skills of cellphones may not deter the majority of buyers. After all, iPods don’t sound as good as CDs, and cellphones still deliver rather bad call quality compared with land lines, but just about everyone has them..End.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Getting Lost With a Cellphone
...continuation...The ability to blithely make wrong turns without serious directional consequences is, of course, one of the hallmarks of PNDs — and a feature that allows me to ignore my wife’s beseechings and merrily proceed on my way without ever stopping to ask for directions. But when testing some cellphone navigation services, I’ve had to pull over and wait for the phone to download new instructions based on my new position (or worse, I’ve had to drive to an area where there’s cell coverage and then wait for instructions).
By comparison, a dedicated PND can reroute you in seconds without stopping — no cell signal required.
There are other disadvantages to using a cellphone as a digital road map. The speaker volume on most is inadequate to overcome road noise, and GPS tracking tends to drain the batteries of some phones. Moreover, GPS receivers in phones are often not as sensitive as those on dedicated navigation devices, so losing a positioning signal in, say, Manhattan, is not uncommon.
Phones also lack the gyroscopic sensors that many PNDs use to estimate a car’s position when a GPS signal fails, as in a tunnel. And there’s the screen issue: PNDs typically have 4-inch or larger screens; even the iPhone has only a 3.5-inch screen.
So for the moment, PNDs remain the most reliable means of directing you to your destination. But cellphones are catching up. Some, like the new Palm Pre, some BlackBerry models and phones based on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile or Google’s Android software, can multitask, allowing navigation to continue even while you’re chatting on the phone. Another approach is to store a complete set of digital maps on the phone so that when the cell signal disappears, your directions remain.
Garmin’s $99 Mobile XT software for smartphones comes on a tiny memory card that works on Windows Mobile phones, for example. Both Navigon and TomTom have adopted a similar full-download approach with their iPhone programs so that drivers don’t have to rely on a cellular network for route updates. To overcome some of the hardware shortcomings, TomTom will offer a car kit for the iPhone next month that includes a better GPS receiver and speaker built into a window mount.
Furthermore, as newer cellphones with more computing power are introduced, they won’t get lost in the hinterland as often. Phones also have a built-in feature most PNDs lack: two-way communication for updated listings, like service stations with cheaper gas and new restaurants, as well as concierge services like ordering tickets online...to be continued...
By comparison, a dedicated PND can reroute you in seconds without stopping — no cell signal required.
There are other disadvantages to using a cellphone as a digital road map. The speaker volume on most is inadequate to overcome road noise, and GPS tracking tends to drain the batteries of some phones. Moreover, GPS receivers in phones are often not as sensitive as those on dedicated navigation devices, so losing a positioning signal in, say, Manhattan, is not uncommon.
Phones also lack the gyroscopic sensors that many PNDs use to estimate a car’s position when a GPS signal fails, as in a tunnel. And there’s the screen issue: PNDs typically have 4-inch or larger screens; even the iPhone has only a 3.5-inch screen.
So for the moment, PNDs remain the most reliable means of directing you to your destination. But cellphones are catching up. Some, like the new Palm Pre, some BlackBerry models and phones based on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile or Google’s Android software, can multitask, allowing navigation to continue even while you’re chatting on the phone. Another approach is to store a complete set of digital maps on the phone so that when the cell signal disappears, your directions remain.
Garmin’s $99 Mobile XT software for smartphones comes on a tiny memory card that works on Windows Mobile phones, for example. Both Navigon and TomTom have adopted a similar full-download approach with their iPhone programs so that drivers don’t have to rely on a cellular network for route updates. To overcome some of the hardware shortcomings, TomTom will offer a car kit for the iPhone next month that includes a better GPS receiver and speaker built into a window mount.
Furthermore, as newer cellphones with more computing power are introduced, they won’t get lost in the hinterland as often. Phones also have a built-in feature most PNDs lack: two-way communication for updated listings, like service stations with cheaper gas and new restaurants, as well as concierge services like ordering tickets online...to be continued...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Getting Lost With a Cellphone
WHEN it comes to navigation, so-called smartphones aren’t really so smart. If you want to find your way to your friends’ mountaintop country estate or to a remote bed and breakfast for some leaf peeping, standalone portable navigation devices, or PNDs, still rule.
To be sure, prices of PNDs have dropped, and their makers have turned their attention to providing turn-by-turn software to cellphone carriers and handset makers. Navigon, which makes cutting-edge PNDs, quietly left the American hardware market in May, deciding to focus instead on handsets as well as software for in-car systems. It already has mobile deals with Samsung in Europe and T-Mobile in Germany, and recently introduced a version of its Navigon MobileNavigator software for $89.99 for the Apple iPhone.
After the PND leaders, Garmin and TomTom, reported double-digit drops in revenue earlier this year, market watchers suggested that smartphones with navigation software might kill off PNDs just as they decimated PDAs. And then TomTom decided that if you can’t beat them, join them, introducing a $100 software version of its navigation application for the iPhone.
But using a cellphone to get directions on a long trip can be about as reliable as using a divining rod to dig a well. Wrong turns, dropped signals and incoming calls confuse most cellphone-based navigation applications.
The Navigon and TomTom iPhone programs are a case in point. Unlike a desktop or laptop computer, the iPhone cannot fully multitask, which means that if you’re using it for turn-by-turn directions and you then answer a call, the navigation function will go on hiatus.
Even phones that can juggle different tasks simultaneously can lead you astray, depending on the network. For example, the R.I.M. BlackBerry Bold on AT&T’s 3G network will continue directions in the background while you chat, but the BlackBerry Storm on Verizon Wireless will not. A R.I.M. spokesman, Erik Van Drunen, said this was because of the network’s limitations, not the phone.
Nevertheless, even with multitasking handsets, in many cases when the cellphone signal stops — say, on a rural road — so do the directions. The reason: because of the limited on-board memory of most cellphones, they must be regularly updated with directions via the cellular network, particularly on long trips. So even though you may still receive a GPS signal on your phone indicating your position, the directions will stop without the accompanying cellular signal. Not only can this be disturbing on a rainy night when there’s no gas station in sight, it can also be annoying when you make the inevitable off-route excursion.
“In some cases, it will download the entire route to the destination,” countered Sal Dhanani, a co-founder of TeleNav, which makes the mapping software for AT&T and T-Mobile’s $9.99-a-month service . “Unless you make a turn that’s not on the route. Then, if there’s no connection, it will lose you.”
continued...
To be sure, prices of PNDs have dropped, and their makers have turned their attention to providing turn-by-turn software to cellphone carriers and handset makers. Navigon, which makes cutting-edge PNDs, quietly left the American hardware market in May, deciding to focus instead on handsets as well as software for in-car systems. It already has mobile deals with Samsung in Europe and T-Mobile in Germany, and recently introduced a version of its Navigon MobileNavigator software for $89.99 for the Apple iPhone.
After the PND leaders, Garmin and TomTom, reported double-digit drops in revenue earlier this year, market watchers suggested that smartphones with navigation software might kill off PNDs just as they decimated PDAs. And then TomTom decided that if you can’t beat them, join them, introducing a $100 software version of its navigation application for the iPhone.
But using a cellphone to get directions on a long trip can be about as reliable as using a divining rod to dig a well. Wrong turns, dropped signals and incoming calls confuse most cellphone-based navigation applications.
The Navigon and TomTom iPhone programs are a case in point. Unlike a desktop or laptop computer, the iPhone cannot fully multitask, which means that if you’re using it for turn-by-turn directions and you then answer a call, the navigation function will go on hiatus.
Even phones that can juggle different tasks simultaneously can lead you astray, depending on the network. For example, the R.I.M. BlackBerry Bold on AT&T’s 3G network will continue directions in the background while you chat, but the BlackBerry Storm on Verizon Wireless will not. A R.I.M. spokesman, Erik Van Drunen, said this was because of the network’s limitations, not the phone.
Nevertheless, even with multitasking handsets, in many cases when the cellphone signal stops — say, on a rural road — so do the directions. The reason: because of the limited on-board memory of most cellphones, they must be regularly updated with directions via the cellular network, particularly on long trips. So even though you may still receive a GPS signal on your phone indicating your position, the directions will stop without the accompanying cellular signal. Not only can this be disturbing on a rainy night when there’s no gas station in sight, it can also be annoying when you make the inevitable off-route excursion.
“In some cases, it will download the entire route to the destination,” countered Sal Dhanani, a co-founder of TeleNav, which makes the mapping software for AT&T and T-Mobile’s $9.99-a-month service . “Unless you make a turn that’s not on the route. Then, if there’s no connection, it will lose you.”
continued...
Monday, September 21, 2009
Is the Cliq Motorola's Ticket to Paradise?
Motorola has been both public and vocal about its intentions to sell handsets based on the Android software platform, backed by Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and a consortium of tech stars. But this is the first time we’ve seen honest-to-goodness hardware from Motorola.
The Motorola Cliq will be available from Deutsche Telekom's (NYSE: DT) T-Mobile later this year. It comes with both a touch-screen interface and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and looks rather clunky next to the svelte Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone or Research In Motion's (Nasdaq: RIMM) BlackBerry Storm.
But that's such a superficial way to look at it -- the Cliq is very pretty on the inside. It comes with generous support for social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace in addition to the usual bevy of Google services.
There's a five-megapixel camera and performance that makes early reviewers drool, and the Cliq could be the perfect sidekick for a hyper-connected youngster. "Your entire social life in a single stream!" the marketing materials claim. That's a somewhat sad assessment of my social life, but rings true to a lot of people nonetheless.
Motorola is hoping to replace an aging product line that hasn't been hot since the glory days of the RAZR. The Android is co-CEO Sanjay Jha's weapon of choice, and Motorola is clearly a more attractive brand to partner up with than HTC, which often lets T-Mobile and others slap their own brand names on HTC-made phones.
But in the grand scheme of things, from Google's point of view, this particular model is simply one more model in a flood of Android phones that should please every palate. We already have the somewhat clumsy but full-functioned T-Mobile G1 and the more iPhone-esque T-Mobile myTouch, with the literally slick HTC Hero coming soon to a Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) store near you and the complete package arriving in Samsung's upcoming Galaxy. Be still, my beating heart. And Google tells us to expect at least a dozen models to be announced in 2009, presumably ranging from relatively simple and affordable models to ever-more-elaborate smartphones.
Motorola takes a somewhat special place in that universe of Android phones -- it's the only American handset maker on Android's roster of alliance members, and the only proven consumer brand besides Samsung. The Cliq might not quite have the chops to turn Android into a real household name, but Motorola's upcoming slate just might. And that's all Motorola and Google really need. Call me when you see a sexy Motorola 'Droid.
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Motorola has been both public and vocal about its intentions to sell handsets based on the Android software platform, backed by Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and a consortium of tech stars. But this is the first time we’ve seen honest-to-goodness hardware from Motorola.
The Motorola Cliq will be available from Deutsche Telekom's (NYSE: DT) T-Mobile later this year. It comes with both a touch-screen interface and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and looks rather clunky next to the svelte Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone or Research In Motion's (Nasdaq: RIMM) BlackBerry Storm.
But that's such a superficial way to look at it -- the Cliq is very pretty on the inside. It comes with generous support for social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace in addition to the usual bevy of Google services.
There's a five-megapixel camera and performance that makes early reviewers drool, and the Cliq could be the perfect sidekick for a hyper-connected youngster. "Your entire social life in a single stream!" the marketing materials claim. That's a somewhat sad assessment of my social life, but rings true to a lot of people nonetheless.
Motorola is hoping to replace an aging product line that hasn't been hot since the glory days of the RAZR. The Android is co-CEO Sanjay Jha's weapon of choice, and Motorola is clearly a more attractive brand to partner up with than HTC, which often lets T-Mobile and others slap their own brand names on HTC-made phones.
But in the grand scheme of things, from Google's point of view, this particular model is simply one more model in a flood of Android phones that should please every palate. We already have the somewhat clumsy but full-functioned T-Mobile G1 and the more iPhone-esque T-Mobile myTouch, with the literally slick HTC Hero coming soon to a Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) store near you and the complete package arriving in Samsung's upcoming Galaxy. Be still, my beating heart. And Google tells us to expect at least a dozen models to be announced in 2009, presumably ranging from relatively simple and affordable models to ever-more-elaborate smartphones.
Motorola takes a somewhat special place in that universe of Android phones -- it's the only American handset maker on Android's roster of alliance members, and the only proven consumer brand besides Samsung. The Cliq might not quite have the chops to turn Android into a real household name, but Motorola's upcoming slate just might. And that's all Motorola and Google really need. Call me when you see a sexy Motorola 'Droid.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Study: Samsung Mobile Phones Emit Least Radiation
A new study from the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) has compiled a list of the 100 best and worst cell phone radiation levels after examining more than 1,000 mobile phones marketed in the United States.
"We would like to be able to say that cell phones are safe," EWG Senior Scientist and lead author of the study Dr. Olga Naidenko said. "But we can't. The most recent science, while not conclusive, raises serious issues about the cancer risk of cell phone use that must be addressed through further research."
Furthermore, "because cell phone technology has been around for just two decades, scientists do not yet fully understand long-term health risks from cell phone radiation," the EWG warns in its report.
According to the study, the top phones with the least levels of radiation emission include: Samsung Impression (AT&T); Motorola RAZR V8 (CellularONE); Samsung SGH-t229 (T-Mobile); Samsung Rugby (AT&T).
However, at the bottom of the pile, emitting the most radiation were; Motorola MOTO VU204 (Verizon Wireless); T-Mobile myTouch 3G (T-Mobile); Kyocera Jax S1300 (Virgin Mobile); Blackberry Curve 8330 (Sprint, U.S. Cellular, Verizon Wireless, MetroPCS).
If you want to read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7016371086?Study:%20Samsung%20Mobile%20Phones%20Emit%20Least%20Radiation#ixzz0RWZY3VKv
"We would like to be able to say that cell phones are safe," EWG Senior Scientist and lead author of the study Dr. Olga Naidenko said. "But we can't. The most recent science, while not conclusive, raises serious issues about the cancer risk of cell phone use that must be addressed through further research."
Furthermore, "because cell phone technology has been around for just two decades, scientists do not yet fully understand long-term health risks from cell phone radiation," the EWG warns in its report.
According to the study, the top phones with the least levels of radiation emission include: Samsung Impression (AT&T); Motorola RAZR V8 (CellularONE); Samsung SGH-t229 (T-Mobile); Samsung Rugby (AT&T).
However, at the bottom of the pile, emitting the most radiation were; Motorola MOTO VU204 (Verizon Wireless); T-Mobile myTouch 3G (T-Mobile); Kyocera Jax S1300 (Virgin Mobile); Blackberry Curve 8330 (Sprint, U.S. Cellular, Verizon Wireless, MetroPCS).
If you want to read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7016371086?Study:%20Samsung%20Mobile%20Phones%20Emit%20Least%20Radiation#ixzz0RWZY3VKv
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