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news.digitaltrends.com - 8/18/2008

Samsung Expands Eco-Phone Lineup

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You know the story: every year, consumers around the world buy hundreds of millions of mobile phones (last year the number was probably over a billion), which means that hundreds of millions of old cell phones (dare we say "billion?") get discarded. Some get handed down to new cell phone users, some get recycled responsibly…but many wind up in landfills…and ...

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Samsung shows off new green phone
Gadgetell — ... encountered has been in cup form and has been very flimsy.  It’s nice to see Samsung trying though.  Given the nature of cell phones, it’s doubtful many will be as environmentally friendly in the years to come.  The easiest option, though, would be to make recycling cell phones much easier for consumers.  I doubt everyone who gets a new cell phones thinks about what they do with the old one unless they are handing it down to someone else. Read [Digital Trends] Full Story » | Written by ...

Samsung shows off new green phone
textually.org — Samsung has been working to come up with more environmentally-friendly phone designs, and at the Beijing Olympics it took the wraps off the new E200 Eco made from sustainable materials. The phone features a case made from corn-derived bio-plastic, and is packaged in a non-coated recycled paper box. The phone packs a 1.3 megapixel camera as well as MP3-play functionality. [gadgetell via Digital Trends] Related: -- Samsung Makes Mobile Phones Out of Corn -- NEC’s ECO corn-based phone -- ...