If you are one of those people who take everything into consideration when it comes to choosing a smartphone, then have a look at these 10 smartphones with the lowest radiation. If nothing else, these smartphones will ease your concerns when it comes to fear of radiation.
What do you know about the effects of smartphone radiation? You probably had the opportunity to hear that smartphone radiation is harmful from one source, and then hear you shouldn’t have any concerns. So whom should you believe? Well, we covered that in our article 10 Smartphones with the Highest Radiation.
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The negative effects of smartphone radiation are still to be proved. There are no facts that could support those theories about smartphone radiation causing cancer or for that matter, any other claims about the negative effects of smartphone radiation on humans. Still, no one can say that smartphones are 100% safe to use. This is because we started to use cell phones massively only two decades ago. That isn’t enough to show all the possible effects smartphones could have on humans. But if there are any effects, they should be visible soon since we are using smartphones now more than ever. The Pew Research Center reports that in 2015, 64% of people in the United States owned a smartphone, which is 35% more than in 2011. Other estimations say that number of smartphone users in the United States will be close to 223 million in 2017. If you don’t have any concerns about smartphone radiation, you are not alone. A recent survey showed that only around 5% of smartphone users in the United States worry about the radiation effects, while just half of them take some measures to prevent it.
If you are among those people, you may consider changing your smartphone and picking one from our list of 10 smartphones with the lowest radiation. To get the list, we used ProCon’s report on lowest radiating smartphones. They have ranked the smartphones according to the SAR, a rate that indicates the absorption of radioactive energy by the human’s body. We know you are eager to check the list of smartphones with the lowest radiation, so let’s get to it.
10. Pantech Swift
SAR Level: 0.386
Don’t worry; if you didn’t hear about Pantech, we didn’t either, at least until now. We are sorry for that, because it was one pretty cool slider smartphone, although it doesn’t have many interesting specifications. But, at least you could type properly with the provided keyboard and don’t need to worry about radiation. You can still buy it on Amazon for $30.
9. Samsung Galaxy Stratosphere II
SAR Level: 0.37
Samsung was always all about the sky and outer space with names for their smartphones. Stratosphere II is another slider smartphone, but bigger and with better specifications like a dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage.
8. Samsung Galaxy Beam
SAR Level: 0.36
Someone in Samsung’s creative team decided it would be fun to combine a smartphone with a projector. We are sure he was just as surprised when the idea was approved. Unfortunately for Samsung, the users didn’t think this was something they needed, so the smartphone flopped at the market.
7. Pantech Discover
SAR Level: 0.35
With Discover model, Pantech showed that besides a cool smartphone, they can make a quality one as well. Discover received great reviews at the time of its release, mostly thanks to the price tag of $50. With that price, you could get a smartphone with 12.6MP front camera, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, which was a bargain at the time.
6. Kyocera Dura XT
SAR Level: 0.328
We gave Kyocera a hard time when they had 3 smartphones among the 10 with the highest radiation, but it looks like not every phone that comes out of their factory is potentially hazardous. It was a flip rugged phone aimed for active users who spend their time outdoors.
5. Samsung Galaxy Mega
SAR Level: 0.321
Yes, we admit, our list of 10 smartphones with the lowest radiation is crowded by Samsung smartphones, but it just proves that they do a really god job manufacturing them. Mega lived up to its name, packing 6.3 inch screen, 1.5GB of RAM and 16GB of storage.
4. Samsung Galaxy Note 2
SAR Level: 0.28
There was a time when Note models didn’t explode and were a hit among smartphone users. Note 2 was an amazing phone with elegant design, a 5.5 inch screen, 2GB of RAM and up to 32GB of storage.
3. ZTE Nubia 5
SAR Level: 0.225
Nubia 5 was ZTE’s response to the market’s demand for big and high spec smartphones. It has a 5.0 inch screen, quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM and up to 64GB of storage. It was a hit in China, but on the western market, it didn’t get the deserved attention.
2. Samsung Galaxy Note
SAR Level: 0.19
This is the last Samsung, we promise. The model that started off Samsung’s Note series had an explosive finish (pun intended). It caught enormous attention when it first appeared on the market. Note wasn’t even that big, coming with a 5.3 inch screen, which is now a standard for regular smartphones. From today’s point of view specs were not great, but then they were premium.
1. Verykool Vortex RS90
SAR Level: 0.18
We have a very cool phone to end up our list of 10 smartphones with the lowest radiation. The cool thing about it is a low radiation and the fact that is water and dust proof. If these are the things that you look in a smartphone, Vortex RS90 will do. When it comes to everything else, it doesn’t live up to the task.
