CNET Top 5: Highest radiation smartphones

These smartphones are truly "hot."

[PianoScience]

2:38 "Steve wants you to buy more apps." R.I.P. SteveJobs, he's not around to buy any more apps. He moved onto iCloud.

[silntdoogood]

Haha I just looked up my 5 year old phone, it is less than half the iphone 3GS! Cingular FTW! I'm going to buy all my phones from them! Oh wait...

[sstelevision]

Why are people mentioning iPhone 4's SAR when it's lower than all top 5? lol. It's the highest of most of the iPhones but this isn't an iPhone radiation list.

[DehMacLuvr]

Fill all the streets of New York with Blackberry Curve 8330's and we have a larger Pripyat ;)

(No offense to those who live in NY of course)

[patsybob]

iphone, seriously its over-hyped! sure it set the standard for phones a few years ago but now its behind the competition, its a has-been phone!

[Yarko]

"POCKET CHERNOBYL"

I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING LOOOOL

[based_will]

Good thing I just bought the Samsung Impression wich happens to have the LEAST. Awesome, no brain cancer in the forseeable future.

[STARGATE]

Nobody knows yet, cell phones haven't been around to do a decent amount of research and technology studies, but I would sure as hell google SAR ratings for phones and buy the lowest rated ones in case this turns out to be an issue in the future

[AITB]

iPhone 4 (one of the worst phones ever) has the SAR of 1, 17. So that's why Steve Jobs had no children!

[olaf]

wow I had both those Blackberries! eww

[Staroutlawjames]

@CNETTV Not sure where it is anymore I looked on my CNETTV subscription page but it is not up there anymore, not sure what happened but it's not a big deal.

[cuddles]

Hey Brian, the Pixi is awesome still works and New Egg sells em for 39 bucks. Heck, Verizon still sells the phones as a certified pre owned device.

[cuddles]

I can see it now, 20 years later "If you're cel phone caused testicular cancer, call this number, our attorneys will be more then glad to help you!"

[laurensdh]

Just weird why blackberry has so much SAR.
blackberry is for bussiness people, who call al lot
why would they make them so high"??

srry for english

[wallempd]

Come on guys, phones emit microwave radiation (non ionizing) and it's totally harmless and it just heats up the surroundings by a tiny amount.

[KingCorvette]

The bigger the number, the higher the "danger." As Brian said, the governmental limit is 1.6 W/Kg. Most of those smartphones came very close.

[ej_tech]

CNET hates AT&T! Just ask Molly Wood

[BlueCosmology]

While the radiation from phones is tiny and not worth worrying about, it is considerably more than background radiation.

[TrueRetroflection]

Epic Meal Time should buy up a whole bunch of 8330s, and assemble them into a grill for their bacon weave flips!

[hahahanvm]

LOL
Don't lay this one in your lap if you want father day cards.
Doesn't blue tooth headset have SAR too?