Posted by bbin37 on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Low-EMF-Phone-Review-tp1538145.html


I recently purchased the Low EMF phone with the Air-Flow hands free
headset from LessEMF. I'll be passing it on to a non-ES friend or
family member since I found it untenable for me. (And I don't want to
be out the 20% restocking fee with nothing to show for it.)

I found the Air-Flow headset to be very inciting. The headset's EM
field is confined tightly around the transceiver (the portion which
houses the microphone and speaker), but it measured up to an effective
60Hz 15 mG strength at its surface at lowest volume with just dial
tone present. The speaker-to-ear sound transmission tube allows the
transceiver to be realistically held a little under 10 inches away
from your body, but this is an unworkably cumbersome configuation.
Even at that range, the strong field present in the transceiver is
still inciting since it is so deep within the body's own field.

I decided to try the phone in speaker mode without the headset. The
microphone is weak so the user has to have her/his head near the
cradle (18 inches or less away in my testing). This puts the
approximate center of the main speaker field 24 inches or less away
from the user. The speaker measured up to an effective 60Hz 20 mG
strength at its surface at lowest volume with just dial tone present.
It was a less inciting configuration, but unusable because of the
weak microphone and volume had to be placed at a higher setting than
the tests to adequately hear the other person's voice, thus increasing
the speaker field strength.

I appreciate the attempt to bring a low EMF phone configuration to
market, but the EMF isn't low enough near the center of the main
sources nor able to be placed at a distance that I found non-inciting.
I'd recommend looking for a different offering. My original
Plantronics configuration that I mentioned earlier is much more
endurable field-wise for me and provides better performance.

Beau