Samsung Blue Earth Pictures
In an attempt to help consumers be more eco-friendly, Samsung has come up with the Samsung Blue Earth, a pebble-shaped, solar-powered touchscreen phone. The Blue Earth is free from harmful substances such as beryllium and phthalates, and is made out of recycled water bottles.
On the back of the Samsung Blue Earth, you’ll find a solar panel designed to harness the sun’s energy and pump it into the phone’s battery. To add to the Samsung Blue Earth’s green credentials, there’s easy access to controls for screen brightness and backlight duration, as well as an energy-efficient Bluetooth mode, so that you can save power. It even features an ‘eco walk’ function that uses a built-in pedometer to show you by how much walking, instead of driving, reduces CO2 emissions.
Samsung is also keen to point out that the Samsung Blue Earth’s packaging is made from recycled paper and the charger uses less than 0.03W in standby mode. This all sounds good but we hope it isn’t just a marketing gimmick and this technology goes into all Samsung phones, rather than just a few.
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Doesn’t having the solar panel on the back seem a bit stupid to you? If you are holding it, the solar panel will be obscured by your hand, and the only other chance to charge it would be when you are asleep, but at night time it is dark.
This is so cool but i want to know the price
Very innovative but what if phone in your bag/pocket?
What happens when you in a night club at night - no light.
Is it really user friendly in terms of shape and size compared to more modern designs from samsung (e.g slim & light wieght)?
Is the panel only an add on to charge for when you are in sunlight but contains the usual old fashoined charging methods?
I think its a brilliant idea but is it for the samsung fan? Maybe its for the seriously “go-green” guy only but the idea needs to keep up with trends and style of the future, in which samsung is a front runner.