[LINK] EMF Health problems

[Adam Todd]

At 02:29 PM 5/06/2007, jim birch wrote:
>On 05/06/07, Stewart Fist <stewart_fist at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>But I haven't been following the issue as closely as you.  So, do you use a
>mobile, and what's your recommendation?

I've converted totally to Mobiles in the last three years, after 
swearing in 1998 I'd never have another one again!

I've posted about the reduction in my phone costs from $900-$1000 a 
month down to around $100 a month previously.  Yes, 10% of my 
original bill, we talk MORE, we have more features, functions and 
services, I even have mobile internet which worked really well in the 
bush the other day, and i pay a fraction of the cost.

In fact the only landline I have access to, costs me more than 2/3rds 
of my Three Handsets mobile bill.

There is religion about which brand to buy.  But really it comes down 
to this.  If you are familiar with an operating system, you tend to 
want to stick to it.  So I've stuck with Sony Ericcson.  The only 
reason we chose the Z1010 in the first place was because my 
co-producer already had a SE phone (different model) and we wanted to 
keep all the chargers and adapters and kits plugable.

However, SE decided in their wisdom to change all the connectors and 
memory cards in the new generation phones, so in the upgrade last 
month (which cost me nothing) we lost the compatibility.  Still, my 
new phone now has 2 GB of ram on it :)

Nokia are just as good.  They make phone calls, you can receive phone 
calls, and it has a headphone cable too :)  What more do you want!

I'd not go with an LG or Samsung. I find the technology quality a lot 
lower and the designs somewhat cumbersome.  However, these two brands 
appeal to the fashion conscious, so if you are into "look" then go 
with one of these.

If you want a phone that feels good and works well I just got K610i's 
and they are nice to use.  The keyboard is a bit small, but you get 
use to it.  The Z1010 was a clamshell, which had advantages, such as 
a clock on the outside you could always see.  The 610i turns off the 
screen and you can't see the clock!

I use a cabled headset about 99.9% of the time.  I hate holding the 
mobile to my ear, it seems to cause you to shout because the phones 
are generally so small and the speakers aren't that great for air 
transfer of sound.  Headset gets the sound in your ear and you speak 
a lot softer.

With they'd make a bluetooth ear clip that took a normal 3.5mm headphone :)

I use my phone more and more for mobile Internet.  It's now quite 
reliable unlike a year ago.   The pricing plans are good. Cheaper 
than a landline and DSL service, and getting close to the same 
speeds.  At any rate performance is not an issue.

But I doubt I'd run a server and route over one.  I presume the 
network providers won't cooperate with such an idea.  Although I may 
be trailing something like this soon.

Sadly they are counting data in both directions and the costs are 
higher if you exceed your plans "caps" but data counting and 
monitoring is very easy.  Although again, at 50 cents a megabyte for 
mobile use, it's not "that" bad if you MUST have access.

Given that data is only transmitted or received when you do 
something, you can connect and stay online all day.  I ran my laptop 
battery flat before my phone battery!