Samsung's Blue Earth Uses Solar Power and is Touch Enabled
Feb 12, 2009, 7:33 PM by Eric M. Zeman
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Samsung announced the Blue Earth, an environmentally-minded phone made from recycled materials that can use solar power to charge the battery. The solar cells are built into the back of the phone. The Blue Earth, which was designed to resemble a pebble, has a touch screen and custom-made user interface for input. It can go into a low-power "Eco-mode", has a built in pedometer, and will let users know how they are reducing CO2 emissions by walking rather than driving. Its charger has a 5-star energy efficiency rating and draw very little power. Samsung said more information about the Blue Earth will be available at Mobile World Congress next week.
source: Samsung
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Make It Bio-Plastic and Mercury-Free
It's an absolutely brilliant achievement!
This phone could be the first of a new generation of increasingly non-toxic and environmentally responsible products.
Meaningful communication is intrinsic to our experience as humans. It becomes even more meaningful when communication connects us to our surroundings in a healthy and productive way.
Hats off to Samsung for their genius to create an object which embodies that synthesis.
Thumbs down to flippant and shallow remarks by those with screen names referring to explosives, dead animals and Rush alb...
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You posted an excellent link:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.ht ... »
Wow! Current CO2 levels are 27% higher than at any time within the last 650,000 years.
And all that the dead...
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In addition to the previously posted link the the NOAA site,...
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The fact that it is made of recycled plastic without brominated fire-retardant is an achievement that deserves equal e...
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Interesting...
I can't wait to see what else it does!
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We sure do have a lot to look forward to next week when MWC starts.
I'd like to hear something concrete about much improved cell phone batteries, they still have a very, very long way ...
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The Samsung Gore
reduced CO2 production is equivalent to increased CO2 uptake, and for the next 200 years we need much more of both. a tree is an excellent symbol to represent and quantify progress toward t...
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walking and using public transportation greatly reduces car miles. do it several times per week, and tally your miles a...
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