Back in June we were met with a leaked screen shot suggesting that Samsung’s Reclaim would be coming to Sprint at some point in the future. Today, however, Samsung has come forth to announce that the Reclaim is now available on Sprint for $49.99 after a 2-year contract and mail-in rebates.

The main selling point of the phone is the fact that it is 80% recyclable but it’s slide out QWERTY keyboard, 2.3″ display, microSD slot and 2MP camera make it a worthy competitor to similary priced phones.

Tags: 2mp camera, Cell Phones, eco-friendly, environment, microsd, Mobile News, Qwerty keyboard, Reclaim, recyclable, Samsung, Sprint

Let’s do something for the environment! That’s something the top five handset makers are going to do. They have just launched a ”how to save energy while charging your phone” plan, by creating a common energy rating system which will allow you to choose the right kind of charger for you.

The new rating system will offer chargers with ranges from zero stars referring to the most energy consuming charger up to five stars for the ”greenest” ones. So you’ll be able to replace your common Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung and LG chargers with the charger you want.

This way we’ll all be able to charge our handsets and do something for Mother Earth, all at the same time! What more can you ask for?

via phonescoop

Tags: Cell Phone Charger, eco-friendly, environment, Mobile News, Portable Devices

Sony Ericsson has a GreenHeart concept phone which hasn’t entered production yet, and it might not be massively produced any time soon. The concept phone is meant to prove that a phone is environmentally sustainable through its life cycle.

The GreenHeart will sport some of the various features:

• bio-plastic housings
• recycled plastic keypads
• a zero charger with 3.5mW standby power
• HTML based e-manuals instead of traditional printed ones
• environmentally conscious packaging.

Sony Ericsson is on their way of creating a better eco-friendly, biodegradable phone. Hopefully they will be able to actually launch one for the general public.
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Tags: concept phone, eco-friendly, environment, Mobile News, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Sony Ericsson

The LoCO2PC PC from Akhter looks like an LCD monitor. Well a rather big one. And it’s supposed to be an environment friendly all-in-one PC too. Inside there’s a Celeron dual-core or a Core 2 Duo processor, SXGA (1,280 X 1,024 ) resolution, a 250GB hard drive and 802.11b/g WiFi. The whole “mechanism” uses 55 Watts while in use and only 3 Watts when in sleep mode.

This PC will certainly leave its mark on your wallet. Depending on what you choose to arrange inside you will be paying from $975 to $1,156 to get one.

Tags: Akhter, all-in-one, desktop, Desktop PCs, environment, pc

Manufacturers are trying to get more environement friendly gadgets. We’ve seen phones made of wood, corn or recycled parts. We’ve seen a bamboo case for a mini desktop PC. It’s time we found an USB eco-friendly drive to go with all that. (more…)

Tags: bamboo, eco-friendly, environment, flash memory, Mobile News, Portable Devices, USB drive

Remember how we were talking about a future corn-made cell phone from Samsung? Well it appears we are already in the future as Samsung has the corn cell phone ready. We are looking at a fairly limited handset here. The E200 Eco has a 1.3 megapixel camera and some MP3 player functions and of course a case made of corn. Don’t eat it now!

There’s no word on pricing or availability yet but it’s said that the E200 will be available in Europe sometime next month.

via Engadet

Tags: Cell Phones, eco-friendly, environment, Mobile News, Samsung, Samsung

Little did I know today, when I started talking about advertising and publicity in the mobile world, that I’ll continue to do that. If we checked out earlier Verizon’s way of doing advertising, it’s turn for Nokia now. And what a site we we got immersed in!
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Tags: environment, Mobile News, N96, Nokia, Nokia, Nokia Maps

We’re not looking at keyboards every day but every once in a while we find something interesting. Here’s a keyboard from Japan. Not only is it wireless but it’s also powered by light. Just above the numeric keypad there’s an adjustable solar panel. Simply move it around to make the most of your light source. It will power up your keyboard immediately replacing those usual batteries. Sure you can run it on batteries too, but why not use the Sun’s energy instead?

Besides the regular keys you get a bunch of hotkeys for media and Internet applications. Now you will be able to simply write your emails and documents on this wireless keyboard while using the light in the room to charge it.

This 2.4GHz wireless device is available for $120. A good price since you will be saving quite a lot on batteries from now on. Just make sure you’re not working in the shadows.

Tags: environment, keyboard, Portable Devices, solar charger, wireless

Ok where do I buy this one? I know it’s all just a concept phone but where can I get it from? If this was a real phone it will certainly be a hit. An expensive one but still a must have for some, me included.

So let’s pretend it’s a real handset for a second. It will be a Windows Mobile 7.2 phone with lots of features and interesting specs. What’s most interesting is the two touchscreens. There’s the regular size primary screen which you use for browsing and making calls and playing games and what not and then, there’s the slide touchscreen. Voila, it becomes a touch keypad or a secondary touchscreen.

For power the Eclipse Intuit uses energy drawn from the Sun. If an Orange tent isn’t available, those solar mini panels will turn pure energy into much needed electricity. Further more, there’s at least a 5 megapixels camera and lots of 3G, 4G, LTE, WiFi support. And more cool features that haven’t just yet been invented. While still pretending it’s a true phone, we’re going to assume the Eclipse Intuit is going to be offered by Orange and AT&T sometime later.

Leaving jokes aside, this is a quite unique concept phone and I’d like to see it done although I’m not actually hoping to see one in the near future. Why not fantasize about it in the mean time then?

Tags: Cell Phones, environment, Mobile News, solar charger

If you’re thinking about going over to the UK for getting that Asus G70, you should stop at Glastonbury to check their festival. And since you’re already there, why not stop to give that huge eco-friendly charger, that Orange set up a go.

That’s right folks, that’s a tent right there. It will charge up to 100 cell phones an hour and it will store any unused energy. The power comes straight from the sun through some solar panels. And if there’s wind, well the tent is going to milk that wind too for some electricity. That only goes to prove that if you put your mind to it you can think alternatively and find simple solutions to basic needs.

We’re not going to give up phones to save Earth are we? And while Samsung is making cell phones out of corn, other manufacturers should come up with eco-friendly power sources for our handset. Oh and if it happens to rain the tent also works as a full time Orange tent!

via Gizmodo

Tags: environment, Mobile News, Orange, power solutions

Other than acquiring Trolltech, Nokia has made another big announcement. Nokia has always been an environment-conscious company and it has reinforced its green reputation by joining the WWF Climate Savers program. The company aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as well as improving their energy efficiency by halving stand-by energies utilized by chargers when not in use. This move is in part of Nokia’s Climate Change Strategy. This might mean more “green” patents to come. It’ll be very interesting what Nokia would come up with to comply with their joining the WWF Climate Savers program.

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Tags: environment, Nokia, Nokia