Methods and apparatus for reducing cellular telephone radiation exposure

A cellular communications system for reducing a level of radiation to which a cellular telephone user is exposed comprising:

• a wireless telephone comprising:
• a low radiation (LR) wireless voice communicator including a user interface;
• and
• a high radiation (HR) wireless communicator including a high power wireless network communication circuit,
• wherein the LR wireless voice communicator and the HR wireless communicator are adapted to physically couple together for conventional use as a wireless telephone, and
• a cellular unit separate from the wireless telephone, the cellular unit including:
• a cellular transceiver circuit configured to communicate with a cellular network, wherein communications from the cellular transceiver circuit to the cellular network are configured to be at a first radiation level;
• and
• a local transceiver circuit configured to communicate with the wireless telephone, wherein communications from the local transceiver circuit to the wireless telephone are configured to be at a second radiation level, wherein the second radiation level is less than the first radiation level,
• wherein, in at least one mode of operation, communications at the wireless telephone are automatically switched from the first radiation level to the second radiation level and are performed between the cellular network and the wireless telephone by way of the cellular unit in response to the wireless telephone detecting the presence of the cellular unit.