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BlackBerry Bold Tops Radiation Ranking

Posted by timothy on from the woo-top-of-the-list-awesome dept.

geek4 writes with this excerpt from eWeek Europe: "Data from the Environmental Working Group places the BlackBerry Bold 9700 as the mobile device with the highest legal levels of cell phone radiation among popular smartphones. Research In Motion's BlackBerry Bold 9700 scores the highest among popular smartphones for exposing users to the highest legal levels of cell phone radiation, according to the latest 2010 Environmental Working Group ranking. Following the Bold 9700 are the Motorola Droid, the LG Chocolate and Google's HTC Nexus One. The rankings still put the phones well within federal guidelines and rules."

17 of 189 comments (clear)

  1. Oh good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps this means it'll get signal where I live?

  2. lol, where's the iPhone? by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 4, Funny

    You poor fanboys, your precious toy didn't even make the list. Weak is the signal, weak as the user.

    1. Re:lol, where's the iPhone? by cyfer2000 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Based on your id "0xdeadbeef (28836)" and the fact that you didn't RTFA, you must be old here.

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    2. Re:lol, where's the iPhone? by Hurricane78 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wow, when I do that I get modded troll (not that I care anyway).

      The iTrollerators must be sleeping, wrapped in their cozy reality distortion field. ;)

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  3. Re:Brand-name Power by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why do you hate Americium?

  4. Loser! by viraltus · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're just a Motorola Droid.

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  5. Re:Brand-name Power by Kratisto · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope this doesn't turn into a boron and predictable thread of chemistry puns.

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  6. Re:Brand-name Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How else are they going to create the ionization trail all the way to the cell tower?

    (A useful fact: if you point your Blackberry Bold at someone near a high voltage source, they will be struck by lighting.)

  7. Re:Brand-name Power by Fluffeh · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope this doesn't turn into a boron and predictable thread of chemistry puns.

    A post like that is like a big Neon sign just asking for it to happen though.

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  8. Re:Sweet by NatasRevol · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you just say that the main reason your water gets hot in the microwave is because it's going around in a circle and not the...ummm.. microwaves? Cause I'm thinking I could lower my energy bill if you're not a complete crackpot. /sarcasm

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  9. Re:not a big deal by ascari · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not a big deal? I for one demand that all cellphones rank below the average in terms of radiation!

  10. Re:Brand-name Power by willworkforbeer · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope this doesn't turn into a boron and predictable thread of chemistry puns.

    A post like that is like a big Neon sign just asking for it to happen though.

    I zinc you guys must beryllium, like, so bored this evening.

    Manganese puns get any lamer?

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  11. Re:By any other name by mirix · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stupid people? The same people that think microwaves are a mutagen?

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  12. Re:Brand-name Power by Darinbob · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, the irony of it.

  13. Re:Brand-name Power by Arthur+Grumbine · · Score: 3, Funny

    The apparent contradiction in your statement presents an interesting antimony. Personally I think all the good puns argon, but I've lead the way before, and I will again, although I'm not nearly as good at this as my friend Nick. When he gets going nickel bark them out like he was Rin-Tin-Tin. I do feel like I have one on the tip of my tungsten... Copernicium.

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  14. Re:Brand-name Power by kimvette · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, this kind of thread comes up periodically, compounding the pun-ishment, as though it were an elemental aspect of /.

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  15. Re:Radiation yes, but non-ionizing radiation folks by unkiereamus · · Score: 2, Funny

    You will [be] standing out in the sun every day...

    Hi, Welcome to /.

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