Samsung teases with a solar powered handset
Feb 13, 2009 Green Technologies
Samsung Blue Earth
Samsung has just let loose Blue Earth, a touchscreen phone that charges via solar cells on its back! There is not much info on the underlying hardware except that the handset is made from recycled PCM plastic.
Expected to be in UK market in Q2, 2009, Samsung says that the phone boasts an “eco” mode for efficiently adjusting screen brightness, backlight duration and Bluetooth usage, and an “eco walk” app / built-in pedometer to tell you how much CO2 emission you’ve saved by walking instead of driving!
While we have already seen a phone made from recycled plastic bottle from Motorola, the Blue Earth will really endear itself to environmentalists (as well as people in working in remote places, without steady electric supply?) if it lives up to its claim of the solar cells providing enough charge to make a phone call anytime the sun’s out.
While the color of the upcoming Barcelona Mobile World Congress may not be green (unlike the recent motor shows), every manufacturerr is making efforts. Nokia recently offered a version of N79 without a charger, so that one could reuse the old charger lying around.
Tags: cellphone, Samsung, Solar power
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