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Such a beauty contest is precisely what phonemakers are eager to avoid. "There has been huge concern that this could be used for comparison shopping," says Norm Sandler, a spokesman for Motorola, the No. 2 cellular manufacturer after Nokia. To discourage what they call misleading comparisons, the companies will place a statement in boxes that declares all phones that emit radiation below the Federal Communications Commission SAR ceiling of 1.6 are equally safe. (An SAR measures the energy in watts per kilogram that one gram of body tissue absorbs from a cell phone.) "There's no evidence that any number...
Metrocall may be a maverick in confronting the sensitive issue of potential cell-phone health hazards, but the rest of the U.S. will soon catch up. Beginning this fall, Motorola, Nokia and all other cell-phone makers will bow to mounting concerns about safety by disclosing just how much radiation their phones emit. The once hard-to-find data--measured in "specific absorption rates," or SARs--will come packaged with the latest models, some of which could hit stores by Christmas. That is likely to launch a scramble by concerned shoppers to find the cell phones that...
...will soon face. The data first appeared on an obscure fcc website in June and has since become available on a more consumer-friendly Internet venue www.sardata.com/sardata.htm) According to these figures, users of an Ericsson T28 World digital phone absorb an SAR of 1.49, while owners of a Motorola StarTAC 7860 get just 0.24. "Numbers without context do not help any consumer," says Mikael Westmark, a health-and-safety spokesman for Ericsson. Concurs William Plummer, Nokia's vice president for government and industry affairs: "All these phones on the market have passed a government safety standard...
...Motorola Talkabout T6310 and Kenwood's FreeTalk UBZ-JH14 were close seconds. If you can stomach the $300-a-pair list price on the rugged-looking Talkabouts, you'll be treated to a built-in weather channel, FM radio, alarm clock, stopwatch and multiple privacy modes to keep your calls from being interrupted or overheard. The menus, however, are so loaded down with extras (including 10 different beeps) that it's hard to find the basics. The best feature on Kenwood's Freetalk ($230 a pair) is the ability to scan for a free channel--a big timesaver...
...behind WAP, or wireless application protocol. Like packet switching or HTML, it doesn't sound like much, but it's vitally important to the future of the Internet. WAP lays out the rules for squeezing the best of the Net onto that Nokia (or Ericsson or Motorola) in your pocket. Rossman left his native Paris, picked up an M.B.A. at Stanford, worked on the original Apple Macintosh, started three companies and sold one to AT&T before even thinking about WAP. But his best move was attending a 1994 wireless convention in Santa Clara, Calif., where "nobody was thinking about...