Samsung Blue Earth Brings Eco-Friendly Features to Swedish Customers

Posted by Sierra Monica B. in Technology on 10 14th, 2009 | no responses

Blue Earth is what Samsung likes to call the first full touchscreen eco-friendly cell phone and is prepared for the release in Sweden this month. The handset was unveiled at this year’s edition of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, and, unlike the entry-level models with eco-friendly properties, it packs multimedia capabilities and a full-touch display with easy access to the menus.

Samsung Blue Earth features lower energy consumption when compared to other cell phones providing the same mobile features, while using eco-friendly elements. It is made from Post Consumer Material extracted from water bottles to reduce fuel consumption, as well as carbon emissions during manufacturing, and is free from Brominated Flame Retardants, Polyvinyl Chloride and Phthalate, known as harmful substances.

The unique user interface makes the user more conscious of the environment preservation, including the Eco Mode, screen brightness adjustments, backlight duration and the Bluetooth that can be set to the power-saving mode with one touch. Eco Walk is a function destined to counting user’s steps based on the integrated pedometer. It calculates the CO2 emission reduction for comparing with using a vehicle. Users can find out how many trees they save by simply walking.

The cell phone uses 0.03 Watts of power in standby and there’s also a solar panel on its back, which increases battery life when needed, outdoors.

After Sweden, Samsung will release Blue Earth in France, Austria, Germany, Portugal and Italy, while other European and Asian countries will receive it soon.
The suggested retail price is not known yet, but the specifications include a 3-inch display of 16 million colors, accelerometer sensor, turn-to-mute, smart unlock, MP3 ringtones, 130 MB of internal memory, support for up to 16 GB of external storage, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, built-in 3.12MP camera with face and smile detection, email, RSS reader, stereo FM radio with RDS, A-GPS, music recognition, and a 1080 mAh Li-Ion battery.