One such innovation, introduced only a few months ago, is Bluetooth wireless technology. Essentially, this is a completely wireless headset that enables you to place the cell phone up to 30 feet away from your body while making calls. This is more than sufficient distance to minimize the potential dangers from EMF.

Aside from the wireless headset, cell phone dangers can be minimized by using a wired headset and keeping the phone away from your body while it is in standby mode -- keep the phone in a purse or holster on your belt instead of in a pocket.

Because this technology eliminated my safety concerns, and because cell phones are obviously quite useful when the health concerns are subtracted, I decided it is time to own one again. And so I delved into researching the phones.

After 10 solid hours of reading, contacting experts and more, I’ve found that the Samsung cell phones are the most innovative, dependable and useful ones currently available.

You can see the top cell phones currently on the market at CNet.

I have previously recommended the Samsung S105 as it was free at Amazon. Now it is $100 and the best bargain going is the LG LX5350. However, you will have to act fast to get the discount as it expires at the end of the year. This is the phone I ordered on December 24, and it came to my office delivered on December 26 with no shipping charges. Amazing.

One of the big reasons I selected it was based on the user comments on Amazon which seem to rate the quality of the reception of the Sprint system as superior. It also uses CDMA rather than GSM which is a major big plus.