Is having a Cell phone as an Alarm clock close to the head a good idea?

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So yeah... My C phone has an alarm clock in it and it's a lot better than any alarm clock I've had. I'm a night owl and so I stay up real late but I also have to get up early the next day so I literally sleep with the phone to my ear so I actually hear the alarm and wake up. Is this a good idea and will it give me cancer faster. :dopey:

Yeah, it's late... I have insomnia I'd guess and well I'm pretty bored too. :grumpy:
 
C phone = cell phone?

Everything gives you cancer, so I wouldn't worry about it, especially because it isn't even engaged in a call (which requires many more signals to be sent/received, obviously).

I do wonder, though, why you don't just get a better alarm clock. ;) I have one that gets louder the longer you let it go (very irritating 👍 ), and it works pretty good.

One thing I would recommend is putting your alarm clock on the other side of the room, if it's loud enough...that way, you have to get up to hit "snooze." Worked like a charm for me -- I now snooze for only an hour or so, instead of running out of snooze, over-sleeping entirely and missing all of my classes and stuff.
 
I wouldn't sleep with it close to my head. Everything causes cancer, but why increase the risk? I used to invest heavily into alarm clocks, since I am not a morning person at all. I'd spend like $100 on a alarm clock CD with a mini subwoofer built in. :lol: But last decade or so, my cell phones has taken the duty over. My Sony-Ericsson phones(my last four) has dual alarm and I use both. I keep the phone about two feet away from me, when I'm in bed.
 
Yeah surely just moving it away a foot or two would work?

Personally I like to use my K750i with "Basement Jaxx - Where's your head at" as the alarm tone. If the original eruption doesn't get you the siren a few seconds later will.

Mobile/Cell phones have never been outright proven to give you cancer/brain tumours, and there'll probably be one study countering another for years to come. But all you've got to do is make sure it isn't constantly near you. For example I always take my mobile out of my pocket when I've had it there all day for college. Just in case.
 
ExigeExcel
For example I always take my mobile out of my pocket when I've had it there all day for college. Just in case.
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If you are talking about those pockets, that makes me nervous too. :lol:

Edit: Also, if my phone was too close to me, when I'm asleep, I'd be accidentally calling bunch of people in middle of the night.
 
Nothing beats a proper manual alarm clock that goes "ding-ding-ding-ding-ding..." It annoys the hell out of me, but it certainly works well.

I'm surprised the mobile phone stays next to your head after you wake up. I usually shove anything out of my bed while I sleep - sometimes even my pillows. :lol:
 
Part if it is that I have a wider range of tones that I could potentially not become immune to because the alarm clocks I've had so far only have one tone. the other part is they plugged into the wall. I really hate having to rest all these damn clocks just because the power goes out so having my cell phone and ipod is sufficient enough.
 
Just don't use your ring tone as your alarm tone to, because it'll piss you off every time you get a call.
 
i don't, there's only one ring tone that I love and I use on my phone. I usually pic subtle tones that nobody else would know is a phone and that I can recognize.
 
Yeah, mine actually just sounds like a regular phone. Lame or not, I always know it's mine.
 
I change my alarm tone every week or so. Eventually I get used to it and tone it out. I haven't yet run out of annoying Motorola standard 'tones, luckily.

But no, you won't be exposed to whatever is supposed to be cancer causing because you're not actually calling anyone. It will kill your ears, of course. Of course I'm screwed because my phone's 3G is constantly doing something.





..oh crap, that's a thought. I sent my phone back for repairs yesterday, how the hell am I going to get up...
 
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Nothing beats a proper manual alarm clock that goes "ding-ding-ding-ding-ding..."
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I use a clock radio. When it's time to get up for school, it cranks out The Edge (radio station (www.theedge.co.nz), not the guy from U2)

Speaking of which, I'd better prepare for the school year that starts in a week and a half...
 
ExigeExcel
Little brother? Works a treat for me.
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Nope, nearest thing to that is a cat, who apparently I don't notice at all. Or so I discovered this morning when she flew off my bed when I kicked the heavy "pillow" sitting on my feet...
 

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