This year has seen the debut of so many eco-friendly cellphones that most of us don’t even bat an eyelash when we hear about a new one. The latest mobile from Samsung, however, may actually be the greenest of the bunch, and it’s one worth paying attention to.

The new cellphone is called the Samsung Reclaim and unlike some more basic green phones that have hit the market recently (like the Motorola Renew), the Reclaim falls in the smartphone category and features techie elements like a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a 2 megapixel camera/camcorder. The big difference between the Reclaim and other smartphones available is that a little under half the materials for the phone are made from corn bio-plastics and about 80 percent of the total materials can be recycled. Arguably even better, though, is what’s not in the Samsung Reclaim: Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), phthalates, brominated flame retardents (BFRs), and a user manual. Click here to read more

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Eco-friendly cell phones aren’t as rare these days as they once were. In fact, many of the major brands like Motorola and Samsung have already debuted green cell phones of their own and to less than astonishing sales. But that hasn’t stopped Sony Ericsson from getting involved with the trend by launching their own eco-friendly cell phones: The Greenheart phones.

So far the product line includes two phones (the C901 Greenheart and the Naite) and a headset, all of which have been designed with both user features and eco-friendly aspects in mind. Paper instruction manuals have been done away with and replaced with e-manuals, packaging has been redesigned to be smaller and carry less of an impact, and the phones themselves are made with a minimum of 50% recycled plastics (the headset includes 100% recycled plastic components for many of its parts). Other features include light displays the use less energy, low VOC waterborne point, and low-power chargers. Sony Ericsson estimates that the green-geared design of the Greenheart phones and headset reduces the carbon footprint of the phones by 15 percent. Click here to read more

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