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Greening the planet has never been more compelling than when you start to hurricanes and abnormal weather disturbances worldwide as a result of global warming.  No effort is too small to make the eco-friendly bandwagon start rolling.  Mobiles phones are no strangers to the save-the-planet movement with eco-friendly phones released over the last few years.  Samsung is taking this quite seriously and has just released its latest environment-friendly Samsung Blue Earth.

Green All the Way

The new Blue Earth is an eco-friendly handset right from the drawing board.  It’s highly glossy exterior in cool blue won’t betray that it uses recycled plastic from discarded water bottles that got stripped of harmful chemicals like phthalates and Beryllium.  Samsung claims its manufacturing process for the handset is also earth friendly as it reduced carbon emission.  Even the packaging is made of recycled paper.

But what stands out are its solar panels that recharge the handset’s batteries from sunlight exposure giving you 10 minutes of talk time for ever hour under the sun.  You still get a regular charger though and it’s also green with its 5 star efficiency rating.

Using the handset reveals apps that further its reputation as a green smartphone.  There’s an Eco Mode feature that dims display backlighting and turns off the Bluetooth when not in use.  It has Eco Walk which tells you how much carbon emission was prevented by not taking the car.

Smart All The Way

No less as versatile as any upscale touchscreen smartphone in the market today, the Samsung Blue Earth feature set starts with a brilliant 3 inch wide-VGA capacitive touchscreen with accelerometer and 258k colors. It’s a quad band GSM and dual band UMTS on 3G with HSDPA/HSUPA broadband data connectivity. You get excellent imaging with a 3 megapixel camera with flash and QVGA video recording, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and microSD expansion up to 16 GB. There’s a full internet browser and an application called Communities that facilitate updating your social networking sites in a snap.

What else is there to say about a full-featured smartphone that will soon be out in Europe starting in Sweden for a SIM-free price of ₤365.  Pricey alright but you can’t get an upscale smartphone that’s eco-friendly and still expect it to be cheap.

So will the Samsung Blue Earth bring in a new age where mobile phones are expected to be more environmental friendly? Well, phones which are fully powered by solar energy are quit e some years away but solar panels and solar chips are becoming more and more better as the days go by. The plastic utilized in the phone is of the highest quality and a lot of people would be happy to realize that the phone is made from recycled plastic bottles.

Even the box of the phone is made from recycled materials and is reusable, which should delight environment conversationalists no end. The phone has a solar panel at the back of the phone, which is quite unique, but this doesn’t mean that the phone lacks any feature. In fact, the phone is good enough to rival most of the touchscreen phones in the market today in terms of features.

If you’re looking for a good touchscreen phone which doesn’t harm the environment, look no further than the Samsung Blue Earth. The phone packs in a variety of features such as the 3.15 megapixel camera, touchscreen, HSDPA connectivity and stereo Bluetooth.

Alternative touchscreen phones include the Nokia 5530, which is fairly affordable and has nearly all the features of the Blue Earth, bar the GPS receiver and the lack of 3G functionality. Add to that the less – environmental friendly features of the phone and you clearly get a better bargain.

When you look at other eco – friendly alternatives you may consider the Samsung E1107, which also has a solar panel, but doesn’t really have anything else. The Motorola W233, on the other hand, is made from environmentally friendly products but, again, it is a very basic phone and won’t be enough for most of us.

Samsung Blue Earth Reviews have been positive, so make sure you snap it up when it is released in the 4th quarter of this year, either on Pay As You Go or Samsung Blue Earth on contract.