Is it safe to use Bluetooth ?
Even if your phone isn't connected to anything but your headphones
26-30, M
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
In what sense, "safe"?
[i]Health?[/i] No hazard there although some users imagine otherwise. The r.f. radiation is of extremely low power, nearly omni-directional so most of the energy goes away from you, and is non-ionising.)
[i]Security?[/i] Eavesdropping by would-be criminals is a more likely concern; but what is the transmission range, and what information are you transmitting that might interest crooks?
[i]Interference[/i] with other equipment? That hazard is covered by the legal standards and frequency-bands to which the equipment has to be manufactured; but some areas still require such radio-transmitters to be turned off as a precaution.
And of course you have the ultimate sanction with any portable 'phone - switch the thing off when not actually needed!
[i]Health?[/i] No hazard there although some users imagine otherwise. The r.f. radiation is of extremely low power, nearly omni-directional so most of the energy goes away from you, and is non-ionising.)
[i]Security?[/i] Eavesdropping by would-be criminals is a more likely concern; but what is the transmission range, and what information are you transmitting that might interest crooks?
[i]Interference[/i] with other equipment? That hazard is covered by the legal standards and frequency-bands to which the equipment has to be manufactured; but some areas still require such radio-transmitters to be turned off as a precaution.
And of course you have the ultimate sanction with any portable 'phone - switch the thing off when not actually needed!
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@SW-User Thankyou - that's re-assuring!
As it happens my 'phone is not suitable for Bluetooth or any coloured teeth, and is not linked to the Internet anyway, so I can't load the NHS tracing application.
You may have been driving professionally so needed the communications, but I never have my 'phone on when driving as it is not a hands-free type, nor for that matter in social situations.
As it happens my 'phone is not suitable for Bluetooth or any coloured teeth, and is not linked to the Internet anyway, so I can't load the NHS tracing application.
You may have been driving professionally so needed the communications, but I never have my 'phone on when driving as it is not a hands-free type, nor for that matter in social situations.
PhilDeep · 51-55, M
I personally don't even like putting a phone near my head, let-alone personal-area network devices like bluetooth headphones.