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EM radiation striking your body is essentially just going to impart energy into your atoms/molecules.

All of the EM radiation emitted by a phone is very very far down in the non-ionising range. That means it can't directly damage the atoms/molecules in your body, it will just be heating those atoms/molecules a bit.

Wifi is 2.4GHz, 5GHz or 6GHz

Bluetooth is 2.4GHz

3G/4G/5G are in the same kinda range, with the exception of mmWave 5G which is up around 30GHz.

Infrared starts around 300GHz, then there's the whole visible light spectrum, and it's only once you get into ultra-violet around 3PHz (yes, Petahertz) that you reach the ionising band, where the radiation imparts enough energy into your constituent atoms/molecules that electrons are broken free. These free electrons will then damage your cells/DNA.

So far, there is no evidence that anything in the parts of the spectrum that are licensed for phones/wifi/bluetooth/etc are at all dangerous to humans.



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