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Sep
06

Sony Ericsson AspenSaving the earth is a big and quite urgent subject nowadays; and because almost everyone today has a cellphone, so making more eco-friendly cellphones is a really meaningful effort. Although these electronic things can’t be totally eco-friendly, at least for now, but there’s something we can do to reduce the harm to nature. And this is why I’m here today introducing the Sony Ericsson’s new greenheart phone – the Aspen, an eco-Blackberry.

 

Sony Ericsson have added a business phone to their line up of eco-friendly handsets. The multi-tasking Windows Aspen joins the Elm and the Hazel in the Sony Ericsson Greenheart range.

 

The phone’s general features reflect the business niche that Sony Ericsson are gearing their Aspen handset towards: the key point being the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, the latest version of the Windows phone set up that allows users to co-ordinate their phone with their PCs. And a Blackberry-ish shape with both a touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard makes easy typing a priority.

 

On the entertainment side, there’s also a media player and a 3.2 megapixel camera. The phone has built in Facebook and Windows messenger apps and the “Human Curvature” design lets it fit in the palm of your hand more easily.

 

It’s not just calling the phones after trees that make these phones eco-friendly. Their green credentials come from the manufacture, the packaging and factors like power-consumption. Green features on the previous Greenheart phones that we hope to see on this one come in three categories.

 

1. Less energy and raw materials are used in their manufacture and packing:
- Made out of recycled plastics
- Free from hazardous chemicals
- The instructions booklet is not printed on paper but is an e-manual in phone
- Packaging has been minimised

 

2. The Greenheart phones are designed to be more energy-efficient
- Low power consumption charger (EP300 GreenHeart(TM))
- Clearer voice technology should mean lower volume is required
- A Widget Manager application, which allows users access to their social networking page via the stand-by screen and quickly switch between different social networks, reduces the battery-wasting waiting time.

 

3. They come with apps for helping you cut down on CO2 and energy use in other areas of your life..
- Walk Mate eco application
- Green calculator

 

You can also use a special power-saving charger which minimises the power wasted when charging the phone.

 

The Sony Ericsson Aspen looks beautiful, and it is a tough phone with amazing functions, and it’s quite eco-friendly. So how do you like this Sony Ericsson green heart new phone? The phone’s available in Iconic Black or Silver White.

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Aug
04

Environment-Friendly Samsung Intensity IIEco-friendly is a quite important issue in life, while everyone’s talking about low-carbon life now, we’ve really realized that we should do something to save the earth, and so does the cellphone industry. Environment-friendly phones are no breaking new today, but most of them are merely concept for now. And this one, Samsung Intensity II might not be absolute eco-friendly, but do has a nice job done. Now arrives on Verizon, check it out.

 

Want a mobile phone that will not make you feel guilty about damaging the environment knowing the fact that mobile phone manufacturing and using a mobile phone actually hurts the environment? You have to check out the new Samsung Intensity II mobile phone which will be available from Verizon Wireless in the coming weeks.

 

Partly made of recycled plastic, the Samsung Intensity II boasts of a horizontal slide-out QWERTY keyboard, one-touch access to social networking sites, a 1.3MP infrared camera with night vision and a music player. Adding to the phone’s environment-friendly feature is the fact that its design includes an exteriror battery cover which is made from 35% post-consumer materials and recycled plastic which were actually extracted from water bottles and other polycarbonate materials. The phone also comes with an integrated eco-calculator that you can use to calculate your carbon footprints that tracks your car fuel mileage, efficiency and amount of carbon dioxide emitted to the air.

 

Additionally, the Samsung Intensity II’s packaging is also made from recycled paper and all the markings on the package printed with soy ink. The package size was also made unintentionally smaller. And its charger alerts you when the battery is full during charging.

 

Key specs and technical features of the Samsung Intensity II include – a 2.2-inch QVGA screen, 1.3MP infrared camera with night vision, series and divided shot modes, voice commands, advanced speech recognition, bluetooth, microSD card slot. The phone also comes with a built-in music player, one-touch contact list access, full suite of messaging options, social beat apps and VZ Navigator.

 

For your mutimedia needs, the Samsung Intensity II gives you easy access to downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, location-based services, as well as personal organizer and tools with calendar, calculator with currency converter, stop watch and more.

 

Functionally this new Samsung Intensity has no breaking bright spots, but quite nice nonetheless, and it’s quite eco-friendly, so this is a nice deal anyways if you’re in the looking of a nice smartphone. The Samsung Intensity II will be available from Verizon Wireless for $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.

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Apr
02

Eco-friendly Cellphone powered by sugary drinksCola is a nice drink that we enjoy, but have ever thought that maybe your cellphone loves cola too? Interesting, you might wonder how your cellphone’s going to enjoy the cola, since sugary drinks usually destroys electronic devices, well, not if your phone is powered by sugary drinks, more interesting huh? :) Yeah, this is what we’re going to talk about today, the Eco-friendly cellphone powered by sugary drinks, or we can use a title like ‘Another use of your sweet cola’, anyway, let’s have a look at this unique phone.

 

The conceptual cellphone from Nokia is achieved by a young Chinese designer, Daizi Zheng. Different from usual mobiles out there powered by lithium battery, the eco-friendly phone adopts bio battery (which generates electricity from carbohydrates) as the power source. Therefore you only need to buy a can of cola to power your phone when the battery dies out! Then you might wonder how long this energy will last for your phone, you know because we need our phone so it has to be long enough for use, otherwise this whole thing will be meaningless. Don’t worry, they know that better than us, so claimed by Daizi Zheng, “Bio battery has the potential to operate three to four times longer on a single charge than conventional lithium batteries”.

 

The other thing is that you then can charge your phone literally everywhere with a can of cola, or wherever there’s a store retails sugary drinks. And since your phone will share your cola, you might also be able to reduce your own amount of sugary drinks, good for your health. So, it is small, it is cool, and it is eco-friendly, and also it looks funny, it would be really nice to see this practical concept hit the marketplace soon.
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