Sleeping with your mobile phone next to you ....

[appianway]

I leave my phone around a metre from where I sleep...

[Visionz]

lol. In the home forum menu it says last reply in "Sleeping with your m..." and I immediately assumed mum. ha

[QuantumJG]

I think perhaps placing any electronic device in your bedroom is bad. There was this hype on A Current Affairs about placing a television in your bedroom, or even a fridge, as some people do. There was also some news story about a truck driver getting cancer near his ear and blaming it on mobile phones.

But it's "A Current Affairs"...  Can you even trust some of the "research" that they do?

Yeah it's 'pop(ular)-news' and a lot of those stories are just to stir things up. Plus it wasn't really a discussed issue in my physics classes.

A mobile phone would emit very low power microwave radiation and by using the phone occassionally you will be fine. Being near the radio towers would be a hazard, since the microwaves are much more intense.

[physics]

radiation i believe...i have an ALARM clock as my ALARM ...but its too far away so i ahve to get up and turn it off which means i'm already up...

[simonhu81292]

one meter away from the phone is pretty far for me ...
i can only hear like inside the 30cm range when i am sleeping ... then i will wake up
lol 

[darkphoenix]

I normally sleep with it near my bed somewhat. (within an arms reach)

[Fyrefly]

There doesn't seem to be a solid consensus... Wikipedia's got a pretty good overall summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health