The Samsung Blue Earth is a solar powered, mobile phone that won’t make you give up features in order to go green with your handset. Due to the fact that solar powered phones are rare, Samsung decided to tread into unproven territory with the Blue Earth model. Although this is a solar powered phone, it does come with a low standby power DC charger in case you do need extra power, plus this phone comes packaged in a reusable box that is constructed from recycled paper.
If you are an eco conscious person you’ll love the Samsung Blue Earth and its many features. Blue Earth features an energy efficient 3-inch touschscreen with WQVGA resolution, plus you get 180 MB of internal memory and you can expand the memory up to 16 GB with a microSD card.
Despite the fact that this is an eco friendly mobile phone you’ll be surprised at how many features you get, plus it also offers top-notch performance as well. When making calls you get a clear and strong connection with great call sound quality. Another call feature that you may find useful is the ability to easily mute incoming calls by simply placing the phone face down.
The Blue Earth Samsung handset offers a messaging system very like that you’ll find with the Samsung S8000 Jet. You get support for SMS and MMS, plus email. Sending text messages and email is easy with the provided the QWERTY keyboard.
You would think that since this is a solar powered mobile phone that you may have to give up some of the power hungry features such as a good music and video player, but that’s not the case with the Samsung Blue Earth mobile. You get a great music player that offers many personalization functions, plus you’ll also find that this phone features a built in FM radio. The audio quality of these multimedia features is fairly good; though it won’t replace your home stereo system it can certainly replace your portable MP3 player.
Like many mobile phones of today the Samsung Blue Earth comes with the ability to take photos; you get a 3.15-megapixel camera that features fix focus. Although this is a basic camera, it takes fairly good pictures, though you may not want to use it as a replacement for your stand alone digital camera.
If you just want a touchscreen phone with lots of features there are plenty on the market, but with the Samsung Blue Earth you get a good touchscreen phone that is also eco friendly.
The reality is that the solar power isn’t really enough to power the phone by itself, but it does help keep your phone charged when you are away from home and don’t have access to your battery charger. Regardless, the Blue Earth Samsung is definitely a mobile that is on its way to leading the charge in environmentally friendly mobiles.
