https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17409179/

The thought that young children are using these suggest they’ll suffer issues in their mid twenties which is horrifying, and then the issues could get worse throughout their life.

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        Yeah, who doesn’t call someone every once in a while? Call your mom. Call your dad. Call your wife. Your grandma. Your kids! Friends! (Yeah right. Not since I had kids of my own.) Talk to each other!

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        It’s ok, they’re trying to shift the blame from their product / technology to how the user uses the phone incorrectly, you know, like a phone. Just look at the amount of posts in this thread singing the same tune. Coincidence, right?

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        I haven’t held a phone to my ear since before smartphones were a thing. Headsets existed for land lines. Speakerphone functions existed on land lines as well as early regular cell phones (as opposed to dumb phones which tend to have more functions than the ultra basic phones did back in the nineties).

        I’m fairly confident that the last time I held a phone to my ear was before the turn of the century. I know it’s been that long at least since I would have while driving and/or at work. The cell I had at the time worked better by headset, and there were plenty of cheap and decent ones available

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      Noone, they just shout into their phones from approx 3 metres away.