Posted on 10 August 2010
Motorola released the Grasp smartphone this week. The Grasp has a full QWERTY keyboard, a 1.3-megapixel camera, an MP3 player, a 3.5mm headset jack, messaging features, stereo Bluetooth, GPS, and a microSD card slot.
It also claims to boast an eco-friendly design, which Motorola promises is 100 percent recyclable. “GRASP is the newest device from Motorola [...]
Posted on 17 June 2010
Sony Ericsson recently announced the new Cedar at CommunicAsia. It’s a cleanly designed phone that claims to give 3G connectivity at an undisclosed “affordable price”. With Cedar, users will be able to delve into social networking site anywhere with tri-band 3G support and Widget Manager 2.0 that gives quick access to these sites.
Furthermore, the Cedar [...]
Posted on 20 April 2010
Gray Powell is the unfortunate Apple Software Engineer who left his iPhone 4G device at a bar in Redwood City, and Gizmodo apparently paid someone 5000 dollars for it. Gizmodo held on to the mystery device before publishing an article that detailed their finders keepers prototype. Apple wants it back. Gizmodo gave a detailed report [...]
Posted on 11 March 2010
Sony Ericsson’s newest eco-friendly cellphone, the GreenHeart labeled Naite, has shown up on the Sony Style website with its pricing and other details. This 3G Sony Ericsson Naite phone is priced at $159 in U.S.
The Naite, being an eco-friendly phone, comes equipped with a plastic housing that is 50% post-consumer recycled. The charger is [...]
Posted on 09 March 2010
In the past few years, CarbonFund.org has devised its CarbonFree Certification program as a way to advocate products that employ eco-friendly designs. The latest to be certified is the Motorola MOTO W388 Renew+ cell phone, which packs the technology users want and need in an eco-friendly package.
Available in Canada, the W388 contains no polyvinyl chloride [...]
Posted on 05 January 2010
Google has unveiled its highly anticipated “Google Phone,” or the Nexus One, an Android-powered smartphone and the first device the company will sell directly from a new online store.
At a Google press event held Tuesday afternoon at the company’s Mountain View, Calif. headquarters, Google vice president Mario Queiroz billed the new Nexus One as a [...]
Posted on 17 December 2009
The Sony Ericsson Elm has a thickness of 14 mm and a weight of 90 grams. The Elm screen however is only 2.2 inches with 262K color support and QVGA resolution.
The Elm phone has rich multimedia features including support for SensMe, TrackID, and MegaBass. Screen auto rotation is also available thanks to the built-in accelerometer.
The [...]
Posted on 13 December 2009
This weekend, Google posted a message on its Mobile Blog referring to a new mobile phone concept device that Google’s employees had been given to test. This new device, the blog said, “combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities.”
According to reports, [...]
Posted on 28 August 2009
GreenMeter computes a vehicle’s power and fuel usage characteristics to help drivers increase efficiency, reduce fuel consumption and cost, and lower environmental impact. Results are displayed in real time while driving, to provide instantaneous feedback, and can be shown with U.S. or metric units. Version 2.0 adds three new eco-driving efficiency displays.
Hunter Research and Technology [...]
Posted on 24 August 2009
Already available in the US, via Sprint, the Samsung Reclaim M560 will soon be launched in Canada too, by Bell Mobility.
Presented by Bell as being “eco-friendly without sacrificing technology”, Samsung Reclaim is made from bio-plastic materials and comes with an Energy Star-approved charger.
The phone’s features include a 2.4 inch QVGA display, full QWERTY keyboard, GPS, [...]