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...important to test this preliminary research to confirm or disprove it. Salford agrees, and is careful to emphasize that he thinks mobiles have saved far more lives than they'll ever cost. But when he speaks on his own phone, he uses a headset and places the handset as far away as possible. And, just before hanging up, he adds, "I also keep my conversations very short!" Until research settles the issue of mobile phones and health more definitively, that may still be the safest call...
Named after the frequency of the radio wave (measured in billions of cycles per second) that carries the signal between the handset and the base station, 5.8-GHz phones promise more clarity because there are fewer devices that operate on the same frequency and thus fewer to cause interference. If you have a cordless phone that is a couple of years old or even a new one that costs less than $50, chances are it is a 900-MHz model that is highly susceptible to static or buzzing from baby monitors, wireless speaker systems and your neighbors' 900-MHz phones...
...companies sell the new models, and they don't come cheap. Uniden's TRU5865 costs $149, while the Vtech 5831 is $179. I preferred the Uniden because it was static free both inside my apartment and up to a block away. Its compact design hides the antenna inside the handset, and the glowing orange keys and display look sharp. The VTech got equally clear reception indoors, but I could stray only a few buildings down the block before buzzing...
...model, I could hear other conversations and even music coming through the phone. I got much clearer reception with the Motorola MA351, a $60 2.4-GHz model--except when I turned on my microwave oven and was assaulted by weird vibrating noises coming through the handset. Still, the Motorola is a decent option at a fair price...
...less-receptive consumer add another complication: cut-throat competition. In an effort to grab market share, China Mobile and China Unicom are already circumventing government price regulations through handset subsidies and other backdoor give-backs. According to CSFB analysts, China Unicom even appears to be cannibalizing its existing customer base of GSM subscribers because of incentives designed to attract users to its new high-speed wireless network, based on a transmission technology called CDMA...