Proof of Mobile Interference

Chaos-Engine · 07-09-2001 1:12am #1

I just discovered and have been noticing regularly that when i have my mobile (Nokia 3330 on 086) close to my comp and it "scans" for a network(like when i turn it on or recieve a txt) my mouse moves across the screen (away from the phone)... If Mobiles can interfer with a computer what the hell do they do to UNSHIELDED Human nurons... I now have moved my phone to the other end of the room and sent a txt msg to it via the net... Still happens... I never turning my phone on again till i need to make a call...

anyone else see this happening
:try moving the mouse... it accelerates when the interferance accures... This is when it is most noticable...

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Moriarty · 07-09-2001 9:46pm

Dosent work for me. Sounds a tad weird, although i do keep my phone off / away from me when it has to be on. I know somone that died from a brain tumor right where they held their phone (they used it a lot).

Nasty things, but handy none the less.

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seamus · 07-09-2001 11:44pm

Did you umm...have the phone on vibrate by any chance? It could have just been shaking the mousemat. The only way for it to move the pointer would for it to send electrical pulses through the mouse cable that correspond exactly to the pulses sent by the mouse itself, or to physically move the mouse, 'cos the screen has no say in where it places the items, let alone move them.

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Chaos-Engine · 09-09-2001 3:16pm

Originally posted by seamus
Did you umm...have the phone on vibrate by any chance?

Nope... It works with my Siemens c25 also (no vibrate)

beaver · 10-09-2001 4:15pm

Originally posted by Chaos-Engine

Nope... It works with my Siemens c25 also (no vibrate)

It actually changes the position of your mouse cursor relative to other items on the screen?

-Ross

smoke.me.a.kipper · 10-09-2001 4:29pm

when i get a call or a txt, the screen goes all fuzzy while the signal is being sent / recieved. ive never seen the mouse actually move around the screen though.

Bob the Unlucky Octopus · 10-09-2001 7:17pm

Moved as it's not really a "science" topic and has a better chance of getting answered in the Technology forums.

beaver · 11-09-2001 9:00am

Originally posted by smoke-me-a-kipper
when i get a call or a txt, the screen goes all fuzzy while the signal is being sent / recieved. ive never seen the mouse actually move around the screen though.

This happens with every mobile phone I've seen near a monitor. I assume it's electromagnetic interference... Makes speakers go a bit crazy too...

-Ross

azezil · 11-09-2001 10:34am

nope no effect on my monitor at all...

Phone: Siemens M35i
Monitor: Compaq S910

BKtje · 11-09-2001 6:52pm

Phones interfere with all electronic equipment afaik when it is sending/receiving signal.

The sound from ur speakers is the signal itself.

phaxx · 11-09-2001 7:05pm

My phone is usually between the speakers and the monitor, very little interference with the monitor when anything happens, but the speakers go nuts. I kinda like the advance warning it gives me just before it rings.. time to pause music, take off headphones and say "brb, phone"

GenX · 11-09-2001 9:27pm

Chaos is rite, I got a Nokia 3310 and i have my mobile rite beside my monitor, when sumone is about to ring me or txt me the screen wobbles, and its not the vibration alert,IT is the same interference when you have your mobile near to your radio!

Could be that i buy dodgy equipment!! lol

GenX

OSiriS · 12-09-2001 2:15am

Being a CRT screen, the wobble is just the electrons being deflected by the radiation.

LoLth · 12-09-2001 8:37am

wasn't there research carried out into this.

IIRC, the frequency of the mobile won't affect the adult brain but the brain of a child (less than 12 seemingly) operates on a different frequency - something ot do with it not having passed through puberty i think - and can be interfered with by mobiles.

as far as I know, the american mobiles work on a different freq. than european ones, so I don't know if this applies here, but in america there were calls for improved shielding and/or banning phones for kids.

ps. and yeah, I've seen screen wobbles when someone is getting a call, usually before the phone even lights up.

Gavin · 12-09-2001 9:27am

Originally posted by LoLth

ps. and yeah, I've seen screen wobbles when someone is getting a call, usually before the phone even lights up.

Yeah, probably because the phone is negotiating the call.

Gav

Slaanesh · 12-09-2001 9:44am

With my mitsubishi Trium when I make a call and hold the phone beside the mouse, if I have a browser window open, the page will scroll up and down randomly as if I was using the mouse wheel.

Thats my proof of mobile interference !

Slaanesh.

Aaron_Ragmaan · 09-03-2011 12:04pm

Chaos-Engine wrote: »

I just discovered and have been noticing regularly that when i have my mobile (Nokia 3330 on 086) close to my comp and it "scans" for a network(like when i turn it on or recieve a txt) my mouse moves across the screen (away from the phone)... If Mobiles can interfer with a computer what the hell do they do to UNSHIELDED Human nurons... I now have moved my phone to the other end of the room and sent a txt msg to it via the net... Still happens... I never turning my phone on again till i need to make a call...

anyone else see this happening
:try moving the mouse... it accelerates when the interferance accures... This is when it is most noticable...

Its just interference, its like if you get a walkie talkie to a seven segment display or something.