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Is it safe to sleep in a room with your mobile phone on but not in use?

― Jere SH, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

not if annoying people are likely to call you up in the middle of the night and you really need your sleep

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

I've done it. No-one really calls me, though.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

drunken rowdy people call me from pubs. hence my phone has its own special spot downstairs where i can't hear it

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Radiation-wize, is it wise, though? What's a safe distance to be from the phone, anyone know?

― Jere SH, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

are you for real? i think the most likely time for it to be emitting radiation is when you are talking on it, i.e. when it is strapped to your ear or perhaps in your jeans pocket next to your testicles. so it seems a bit pointless to worry about what it might be doing on the dressing table when you're asleep

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

i heard that it's only dangerous if the phone is right next to/touching your face. but who knows, it wasn't so long ago that doctors were prescribing cigarettes to asthmatics.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

Ah, you sure? Maybe I *am* being a bit paranoid ... Another one that's been bothering me, though: is it safe to use one's mobile phone whilst carrying a baby in front of you in a baby carrier?

― Jere SH, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

i think you need a POKIA

ihttp://www.designboom.com/contemporary/pokia/2.jpg

keep that dirty mobile a yard away!

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

"when you are talking on it, i.e. when it is... in your jeans pocket next to your testicles."

Talking testicles?

― Sedaka's Sit-cp, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

maybe it's on speakerphone and he walks around shouting at his balls

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

That's nuts.

― Sedaka'a Sit=cp, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

alternatively it could be the location for men's mobile phones when they have the microphone and earphones plugged into it. who knows in these crazy times of people wandering around with small but highly radioactive gadgets on their person.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

i heard that it's only dangerous if the phone is right next to/touching your face

Uhh, like every time one uses a phone?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, arent mobiles a radio frequency - not "radiation"? They're microwaves or something right? Thats not radioactive material.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

sheesh trayce don't spoil a good thread with logic

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

i hope it's not true anyway because i'm looking forward to having futuristic phones that live inside your ear. i can never find mine

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

Microwaves or radiation, is it the case that a mobile phone is only potentially harmful once it's in use, and not when it's in use and still on, or something>?.

― Jere SH, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

if you are this worried about the health risks of being in the general area of a mobile phone you probably shouldn't own one.

― webber (webber), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

And lobby for a total armistice, so that no one else ends up. Owning one.

― Owen, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

So, I still have some questions

If the phone is not in use but still on is it emitting microwave radiation?

And what about the baby carrier scenario?

― Jere SH, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Phones, when off, do nothing. They're off. When they're on, and making a connection to a tower, transmitting in other words, they emit microwaves which can do all sorts of horrific things to a body - but most likely little or nothing will occur in a two minute conversation. The same applies to most cordless phones in the home.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

Nonetheless, the baby will be killed.

― Clay (cws), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

I'd imagine even if one didn't own a mobile, if one was worried about the effects of the RF signals from it, surely the towers that are all over every city building are sending it out so much you couldn't really escape it anyway? Maybe I am wrong.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

the pokia is now called the hulger p*phone and is available as a mass-produced item in a variety of colors - http://www.hulger.com/

― Tracer Bot (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

Those things are awesome! Are they available in the states?

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, they're super expensive though.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT IONIZING ENERGY IS, MORONS???

― YOU MAJORED IN LIBERAL ARTS (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

TINFOIL HAT TIME, MAN!

― I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT HAIR DYE (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000609.html

― I HOPE IT IRRADIATES YOUR GENITALS (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

"It is generally thought, however, that RF is incapable of producing any more than heating effects, as it is considered non-ionizing radiation, in other words that it lacks the energy to disrupt molecular bonds such as occurs in genetic mutations"

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation_hazard

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

And what about the baby carrier scenario?

So that's how I became pregnant!

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Jere SH knows mobile phones are dangerous to use directly, just not sure about the risks of passive mobile phone usage.

And I am a fucking cunt.

― cws, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

it wasn't so long ago that doctors were prescribing cigarettes to asthmatics.
-- Slumpman (mrmummr...), August 16th, 2005.

i hope this is true.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

i've never understood why people leave their phones on while they're asleep, and then complain about people ringing them and waking them up.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

i use mine as an alarm clock. actually, i think i could turn it off and still have it do this, but i don't.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

oh right, i forgot about the alarm mode. i don't think it would work turned off though ?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I use my phone as an alarm clock, too. However, the alarm will still go off, even if the phone is off.

The only thing that I'm worried about is that weird interference signal it sometimes gives off. (I keep it on my mixing desk, and it interferes with the television, and sometimes the desk/monitors if they're on.) Usually that means I'm about to get a text or a call, and I get all excited. But more often it's just been doing it randomly, like it's chattering to itself.

― Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (kate), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

The alarm does work even when the phone's turned off (with Nokias, at least).

Jere SH, have you ever wondered what your TELEVISION transmits? That's some scary shit.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

But more often it's just been doing it randomly, like it's chattering to itself.

-- Mrs. Cranky (From Crankytown) (masonicboo...), August 16th, 2005.

phones are teh no1z3

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

i've never understood why people leave their phones on while they're asleep, and then complain about people ringing them and waking them up.

They want to brag they have a social life and you/I don't.

You can turn your cellphone off, the alarm will still work. I did this with my Nokia. I don't know about other phones though. Give it a try! TAKE A CHANCE! :-)

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

i have a samsung, the alarm doesn't go off when the phone isn't on (thank god)

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

if this was an actual conversation, i would be screaming inside now. but somehow it's ok on ilx.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

is it because nobody phones you?

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

my mum phoned me yesterday. suck on that!

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

*avoids highly offensive joke*

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

i've only had a mobile phone for about 5 months now, i got my first crank call yesterday. some kids just laughing down the phone, after asking them a few times if they really wanted to speak to me i hung up. but it could have been my nephews.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

it wasn't so long ago that doctors were prescribing cigarettes to asthmatics.
-- Slumpman (mrmummr...), August 16th, 2005.
i hope this is true.

-- N_RQ (bl0cke...), August 16th, 2005

it's true for at least one doctor and at least one ashmatic.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Virgin Media rang me with a mobile phone offer today. I'm tempted but they asked me for my bank details (account and sort code) over the phone. I politely declined and asked them to telephone me when I had the details to hand.

It's because I'm so damn paranoid over phone scams.
Is it normal for them to ask for these details, is it actually worth worrying about ?

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 11 May 2009 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

I don't think you should be giving those details away over the phone, no.

― The Fairy Josser (GamalielRatsey), Monday, 11 May 2009 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

I mean, unless you're actually trying to pay for something obv.

― The Fairy Josser (GamalielRatsey), Monday, 11 May 2009 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

funnily enough i got a mail through the door today for the very same offer, so i'll see what that says. ha, but why should i trust paper mail instead?

i think i'll just lock my door and draw the curtains..

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 11 May 2009 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

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