Being Trendy with Samsung Blue Earth
It’s always trendy to be environmentally friendly. That goes for mobile phones as well. Nothing is too small to save the planet. Enter the new eco-friendly kid from South Korea – the S7550, more fondly called the Samsung Blue Earth. It’s a “green” full touchscreen smartphone that joins a bandwagon of distinguished mobile phones on a crusade to save earth – Motorola, Sony-Ericsson and Nokia to mention some. They all have introduced little “green” phones over the last couple of years and we just might expect more to come.
Eco-Friendliness at its Best
With all those eco-friendly handsets, Samsung’s latest foray into the genre is a standout, not just for its environment-centric features but as a full-featured smartphone. What makes it green is its use of recycled plastic for the body that is just 1cm thin, an assembly process that reduced power consumption and carbon emission. Then there’s a battery charger rated 5-star power efficient and a solar charging features that gives 4 hours of talk when harnessing sunlight energy in 19-14 hours of exposure.
And as a smartphone you get quad band GSM with 3G and HSPA for broadband internet connectivity. WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS round off its data connectivity features. There’s a 3” wide VGA touchscreen with 15 million colors and the usual accelerometer. Imaging gets served with a capable 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, geo-tagging and VGA video recording at 30fps. Memory is modest but microSD is supported. It’s plain that the planet-saving Blue Earth is a competent upscale smartphone with features we’ve come to expect in its class.
Availability
The Samsung Blue Earth is expected to launch first in Sweden and then other key European countries in time for the holidays. It does get some competition from a similarly eco-friendly and solar charging LG GD510 Pop scheduled to launch at about the same time. But that’s expected. We hope to see more of these “green” phones increase their presence in the mobile community, the better for mother earth in the long term.
