We have talked about the new Motorola handsets just a few days ago but today is time to pay special attention to one particular cell phone. It’s the MOTO W233 Renew phone I am talking about. It’s a candybar phone made entirely from plastic derived from recycled water bottles. That means your future Renew phone will be entirely, 100% recyclable. Want more eco-friendly features? This phone is also the first carbon neutral phone. Motorola happens to offset the carbon dioxide required to manufacture, distribute and operate the phone by investing in various renewable energy sources and restoration. After extensive product life-cycle assessment, Motorola’s partner, Carbonfund.org has awarded the Renew the CarbonFree® Product Certification.

The Renew won’t have all that smartphone features although it would be really cool to see a 100% recyclable smartphone. However it will offer you nine hours of talk time and CrystalTalk technology. The phone comes with a postage-paid recycling envelope which means you can return it at any time for recycling it at not cost.

Interested in an environmentally friendly phone? T-Mobile will deliver the Renew later this quarter.

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Motorola has decided to surprise us all today when it announced the availability of three new handsets. These are the Renew W233, the Tundra VA76r and the SURF A3100 or Atila.

The Renew W233 will be arriving from T-Mobile next month while the Tundra VA76r clamshell phone is going to arrive from AT&T sooner or later. The Renew is supposed to be the first phone made from recycled water bottles. It has dual-band 850/1900 GSM/EDGE radio and it will get you 9 hours of talk time and microSD cards up to 2GB. The Tundra will run on the MOTOMAGX platform from Motorola and it will get you quad-band GSM/EDGE and dual-band 850/1900 HSDPA 3.2Mbps. A 2 megapixel camera, Stereo Bluetooth, aGPS and a 4GB microSD card complete the specs list.

The most interesting handset is by far the Atila. We’ve talked about it more than once and now we know it will offer tri-band 3G, a 3 megapixel camera, WiFi, aGPS, Stereo Bluetooth and support for 32GB microSD cards. The Atila will arrive in Q1 in Asian markets and other markets are probably going to follow soon.

We don’t have prices for any of the three phones yet but I guess you figured that out so far.

The Nokia World 2007 saw a few more announcements from Nokia, particularly in the area of environmental sustainability. With new initiatives in areas like energy efficiency, materials used in the manufacture of mobile phones and recycling, Nokia announced the new Nokia 3110 Evolve, a mobile phone made from more than 50% renewable material. Available in a small form-factor made of 60% recycled content, Nokia claims that it comes with its most energy efficient charger yet.

The charger uses 94% less energy than Energy Star requirements. One of the first companies to put alerts into its devices, Nokia seems to be on track for a greener world. Let’s hope they (and other manufacturers) succeed.

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