pacer142:
The battery detach thing is yet another Red Herring. It's not true either, other things are much more likely to cause a spark -- how about static discharge from car to key -- or human being? It happens all the time.
Is it OK if I use an Apple iPhone? (The battery is soldered to the motherboard
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drichard:
You're back at the urban myth -- read my post much earlier in this thread where I said that it is always because of a story that a filling station in America/Australia ... etc blew up. Yet there is no such recorded incident.
The RF energy from a cellphone (max 2 Watts) is insufficient to create an RF field energetic enough to cause a metal-to-metal spark in nearby equipment.
And if it were so, why would Shell stuff 50 Watt T-mobile base stations on their forecourts in the UK (as they do)? Shouldn't all those filling stations have blown up by now?
Regards to all
Derek