Posted by Inthepresent on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Low-EMF-Phone-Review-tp1538145p1538209.html

In a message dated 2/15/2005 3:08:31 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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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.)
This phone also did not work for me. I finally got a polycom speakerphone
(best price I found was like $250 U.S.), which has dual something or other so it
does not have the "clipping" quality that you get with almost all
speakerphones.
This is the brand of speakerphone that you see in most corporate
settings and it is usually called a conference phone. It looks kind of like a
triangle and people you are talking to cannot tell you are on a speakerphone.
However, I put an "antifatigue" mat, the kind of mat people stand on to
do the dishes, etc. under it and a tapestry in back of it, because I have
hardwod floors and a lot of glass and the phone works best if it does not have a
lot of surfaces for the sound to bounce off of.
The anti-fatigue mat (you could put a desk blotter, but this is thicker)
and the tapestry absorb some of the sound waves so they don't just bounce off
the wall or desk and this greatly improves the perfomance of the phone.
One caveat: you cannot lean into the phone when you talk. The phone
uses a computer system and generates quite a strong electric/magnetic field *if*
you are up close to it, so you do have to keep about a half foot or so away
from it.
Even with this, to be honest, I feel a small effect from the phone
(unless I'm about a foot away, and then people do know you are on speakerphone), but
it is by far the best thing I've been able to come up with.
I don't have an association with polycom, etc.
Stephanie


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