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Would you want an Apple Watch Plus?
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Please elucidate us in regards to your point.
He said he leaves his phone laying on the desk... I think that's his point.
Personally, I don't think the radiation from something laying on a desk you are sitting at, or on your wrist, is going to be dramatically different.
I read them the first time, and I still can't make heads or tail of them.
The only time a smartphone is acting as a "strong microwave transmitter" or is "transmitting cellular radiation" is when you are actively using it's cellular functions - - in effect, when it is touching your body.
A smartwatch may be "connected to your body for 18 hours a day", but unless you are actively using it's cellular functions, it is not producing any significant form of radiation.
Now, if you felt so strongly about limiting your exposure to these types of radiation that you refused to use a cellular smartphone, I could understand your position on cellular smartwatches. (Not withstanding the tenuous connection between cellular technology and negative health effects in the first place.)
No, these devices chatter away to the cellular network in the background too so it's not just whilst you are touching them.
I get over 500 emails a day + notifications. That's a lot of cellular activity my phone is doing whilst it's sitting on a desk. Don't like the idea of my Watch generating that amount of radiation whilst it's strapped to my body all day.
I get over 500 emails a day + notifications. That's a lot of cellular activity my phone is doing whilst it's sitting on a desk. Don't like the idea of my Watch generating that amount of radiation whilst it's strapped to my body all day.
If they did decide to include a cellular radio in the next version, my first inclination would be that they would do it similarly to the iPad, have a base non-cellular model, and then a cellular model at a premium...
You do know human body can be act as antenna, right?
Do a google of "human body as antenna", you will get both article and youtube video on how people use human body as antenna. Using it for couple hour occasionally is one thing, strapped on as cellular antenna for 16hrs or even 24 hrs, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, or 50-60 years of your life as cellular human body antenna, is a totally different thing.
So essentially, you do carry your smartphone on a ten foot pole.
For those of us who use landlines at our desk and carry our smartphones with us for mobile use, I personally would prefer the arm mounted location, similar to how spacecraft carry their thermonuclear generator at the end of a long boom to decrease the effect of radiation on the spacecraft's more sensitive parts...
The common carrying location for a smartphone is in your pants pocket, which is a lot closer to some of humans' more sensitive parts.
Are you suggesting that wearing a cellular smartwatch will cause this "human body as antenna" effect to amplify and distribute radiation throughout the body? And that we are immune from this effect when we hold our smartphone in our hand?
If they made one the size of the Samsung Gear, I'd get it in a heartbeat... as long as it had the same curved form factor. That way, it could still fit under a long sleeve dress shirt sleeve, yet give more screen real estate, more complications, etc.
Yep, bigger, curved, more function... Sold.
Yep, bigger, curved, more function... Sold.
Don't waste your time feeding this troll and his clever dick answers. He/she/it seems unable to cope with someone's opinion that they wouldn't like a smartwatch with built in cellular capability due to however they feel about the unproven effects on the human body.
No doubt I'm going to get a clever dick answer to this post too.
Don't know anyone hold their smartphone more than couple hours everyday sticked it next to skin with no gap between phone and skin. A smart watch will be different story.
To me, the contact with the body part is kind of moot since we are talking about radiation which travels through the air. Having my phone in my pants pocket all day vs. having it strapped to my arm seems like the impact would be very similar interns of radiation effect. I think that was the point of the human antenna thing.
But, do you want to add yet another device transmitting radiation near your body, whether strapped to it or not?
Personally I find the whole radiation argument to be silly. Any tenuous correlation between risk and effect for cancers (or other health issues) are so miniscule compared to everything we undergo every single day. You take more risk by stepping into a car each day. I hear all the time about how contaminants in plastics and metals leach into our foods, or how dangerous the pesticides/hormones/antibiotics are that are used in virtually everything we eat. What about microwaving our food; could that have negative effects? Any little piece of char from grilling food can cause cancer. Have you tested your local water supply? What about air polution? Global warming? The ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!!!
Ok, so the point I'm trying to make is that there are risks in everything all day, every day. If there are any risks from cell phone usage (none proven at ALL) they must be so small as to be negligent compared to everything else.
Ok, so the point I'm trying to make is that there are risks in everything all day, every day. If there are any risks from cell phone usage (none proven at ALL) they must be so small as to be negligent compared to everything else.