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Originally Posted by ndi View Post
All around you there's EM radiation in the order of watts. There is enough to power a radio from the antenna alone if it's big enough. No effects have been observed this far, aferage lifesoan continues to grow in spite of EM, chemical, biological, superbug and whatnot pollution.

While high EM has been noted as a possible cancer factor, we're talking people living under power lines, which took in equivalents of hundred of watts hour. The phone doesn't exceed 4 W under the worst conditions and not for 24 hours for decades.

Even so, the emissions of you phone is a drop in the bucket, considering that in that area you have several APs, GSM, (several networks), a few tens of radio stations, a few TV stations, walkie-talkies from taxis, satellite coverage, power line hum, EM from electronics and PCs, lighting, space humming, and all kinds of other stuff all over the spectrum.

Not to mention hight energy stuff from the sun and ionizing stuff from space.

Don't let EM spoil your N900.
The distance is the key. We would not need amplifiers and dB-boosting antennas, if we could get 2W EM-signal everywhere from APs, GSM-cell-towers, TV/Radio-stations.
But cellular phone radiating EM @ 2W one inch from your testicles or ovaries (or brains) several hours a day may cause damage.

Made by evolution, we are capable to some extend to tolerate sun light and other "normal" natural EM radiation, but now a new era has started when we have max ~2W EM radiator in 50 - 3000 Mhz just right behind our skins.

As batteries come bigger, we tend to use more data on our phones for all kind of facebook-, wheater-, RSS- widgets.

We know, cancers take years to develop, so the final truth about the dangers with cellular phone EM-radiation is not yet known.

Originally Posted by ossipena View Post
it would require so much time to filter what is good to keep and what not that it will be completely useless....
You are short sighted here. Machine learning is getting better and better and we will have butlers (AI) which will do the quality control for us and filter the data (video,voice) which we are interested.
Just look how fairly well spam-filtering works already nowadays.

Besides, one could delete everything always after some time, even one day, and then just if something interesting has happened, would save that data. But when something suddenly happens "out there", you usually are too slow to capture it manually.

Also torrent servent on phone wouldn't be a bad idea, if we have practically limitless battery life.