Unless your phone is sitting in your crotch for hours on end during
calls, there is no problem.

Ah so thats why all those kids wear their jeans crotches so low. It
must be all that lead weighting they use.

Seriously though. I doubt the radiation from a phone outstrips the
ambiet radiation of your environment and it is probably only whilst
the phone is broadcasting that radiation levels peak?

I'm suprised that as a director of a mobile phone company you don't
have access to such protectors or can't pull one apart to see how its
constructed?

As to aluminum foil or other metals I was wondering if they actually
reduce the field strength or induce capacitance requiring your phone
to pump out even more radiation to keep the singnal alive.

Still as you say you've got to keep your family jewels safe.

Pete

Unless you are using a CDMA phone, why do yout think this is necessary with
a GSM phone? In idle mode, the GSM phone only transmit a few bursts very
infrequently (typically hours) to send its location update to the
base-station. Of course if you are moving across the location boundaries
than there will be more location updates to transmit.

OTOH, if you use a hand's free headset with the phone clipped to your  belt
holster than this is a concern you may wish to explore more fully.

I would question the effectiveness of a shield with the same footprint as
the phone. Have you consider that the RF raditation can bend round objects?

To absorb the radiation is unrealistic because even if such material exists
(and effective in such small area/volume) it would render your mobile phone
pretty useless. I don't think there is much call for a mobile phone whose
transmission cannot reach the base-station.

Then you should know the above points already!

mark@hamptonsNOEMAIL.net had a brainwave and did spout the following:

Why?

These actually forced the mobile to operate at a vastly increased power
level due to the EM shielding. Not a good idea.

Only if you want your mobile to Tx at full tilt all the time.

Do you also intend to shield your TV?

In answer to your question lead is the most effective shield for radiation,
as this is what radiation bunkers are made of plus many feet of concrete.

Your fears *have to* be questioned.

If you're really that concerned with gonadal exposure, why not just use
a sock to enhance your manliness, rather than your phone, and wear your
phone on your belt, like the rest of us? <g>

Sorry, but this topic has been discussed, ad nauseum.

I hope you're not serious.

Notan

Personally I'm not worried about mobile 'phone emissions, but if you
want to part with £34, look here:-

http://www.microshield.co.uk/~specification.html

Write up about the potential dangers and special offer (-£5) to readers
for the same case here:-

http://www.iconmag.co.uk/mobile_phones1.htm

Fine, provided you don't want to receive any calls.  If your phone can't
tramsmit *out*, how on Earth do you expect it to receive calls *in*?

Jon

Why don't your try baloney?

Jim

It won't/shouldn't get any signal with such shielding, so why not just
switch the phone off/remove the battery for the same effect?

Tariq

If you really must, then try

http://www.lessemf.com/personal.html

TBH, being director of a company doesn't show you have any technical
knowledge, just (hopefully) some business skills. Mobile Phone Companies
range from manufacturers through to market stall holders selling
fascias, so that doesn't show any knowledge of potential RF problems
either. If you are Technical Director at Nokia (or Motorola, or SE...)
then you may have the knowledge. MD of a ringtone company or retailer
doesn't automatically infer any tech ability whatsoever. This isn't a
criticism of you, just saying that if you want to use your position to
demonstrate your ability, you need to give more info.

It is better to be safe than sorry, but unless you are physically moving
the phone away from your body you won't achieve much due to the power
management features of the phone (as others have said - shielding the
phone only increases it's power output, defeating your purpose).

Matt

To the many of you who replied stating that if it shields the phone then the
signal cannot get out meaning the battery power will drain as it tries to
compensate, or I may as well turn the phone off, I think you missed the bit
below where I put:

"BETWEEN" the phone and me.  Not AROUND the phone, or OUTSIDE the phone.
BETWEEN.  The holster would just have the mesh on 1 back wall of 4.  The
other 3 walls would allow the phone to communicate normally, but at least
some of the radiation would be prevented from travelling directly into me.
Geddit?

To those of you who said this would have the same problem, Levi's were very
clear in pointing out the mesh only went between the user and the phone, not
around the phone pocket.  Therefore it would, and does, work fine just as my
requirement would.

Thanks to Matthew Haigh for actually providing me a link to someone who
sells the mesh.  http://www.lessemf.com/personal.html

Sure, buying EMF socks is a bit silly, but directing questionable mobile
phone radiation that has not been given the all clear by many governments,
from entering my kidneys, liver, lungs and nether regions, is not in my
opinion silly.

Yet you all questioned my fears!  D'oh!!

We are all different people.  We all have different opinions.  'nuff said.
Thanks for the (few) constructive comments I received.

Mark

Maybe you should question your fears.  Don't waste time trying to
shield yourself like this, especially when very thorough studies
show that there is no harm caused by cell phones or by cell phone
towers.  Seriously, there are larger sources of emission out there
bombarding you constantly, so you might as well hole up in
a lead impregnated concrete bunker if you really do fear RF
radiation.  What next - shield yourself from earth's magnetic
field and avoid any devices which contain electric motors?

Take a look at the info at this British site:

Basic info:
http://www.nrpb.org/press/information_sheets/mobile_telephony/index.htm

Technical info:
http://www.nrpb.org/publications/documents_of_nrpb/pdfs/doc_14_2.pdf

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