This is a huge arguement between me and my husband. I say it can't. Thanks for your help. Well, not directly...
As you may have noticed, whenever you spend a lot of time in an area where you have little to no signal strength, your phone batteries die quickly. This is caused by your phone being more 'active' as it tries to find a good signal. This is often reffered to as roaming, but a more techie term is background scanning. All the extra activity from your phone while background scanning causes the phone to eat the battery up quickly. It is much the same principle of why your phone can keep a charge for days if you don't talk on it but if you have a 2 hour conversation your batteries are almost dead.
So what appears (from your husband's viewpoint) to be happening is you are getting some interference from your microwave which is making your phone try to find a better signal. So after a while, the drain on the battery becomes noticeable.
Realisticly, there shouldn't be much of an impact on the phone from the microwave. Unless you have an older model of microwave. The signals your phone sees are very small, and older microwaves were not as concerned with the small signals they let out (or emitted, to us geeks).
Also, microwaves usually have a metal skin around them, and if you were to set the phone down on that metal surface you might affect the signal strength at the phone, which would make it background scan also; Again draining your battery at a faster rate. This wouldn't matter whether the microwave was turned on or off.
As to other devices, like cameras, that don't communicate with other devices on a regular basis, like phones, they should not be noticeably impacted by the microwave - in regards to their battery life. There might be impacts to how well they work, but shouldn't impact the battery life significantly. But i never did any design work on cameras, so there might be something i'm missing, but i doubt it. To phones yes. i walked by the microwave while it was on and the phone automatically shut off. Only phones not Cameras. So both of you are right.
Hope I helped,
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