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The Reclaim ^[4] – Samsung ^[5] and service partner Sprint’s ^[6] newest green phone – has innovative features that go beyond the bare bones that similar products like Motorola’s W233 Renew ^[7] phone offers. This eco-conscious smart-phone is 80 percent recyclable and made mostly of corn-based bio-plastics ^[8], but that’s not all this compact phone has up its green sleeves.

Although there may be some criticism on the sustainability factor of the maize-made material, you can’t deny that Samsung has made giant efforts to produce a product that is not only green, but also services the needs of today’s consumer. Most of us rely on our cellular telephone as a way of staying connected to the different types of communication we have grown accustomed to, and thankfully the people at Samsung equipped the Reclaim with a QWERTY keyboard, 3G network, GPS and one-click access to social-networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. They have also eliminated the paper manual and its recyclable packaging is printed with soy-based ink. In addition to the “green” materials used to produce this phone, Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse also announced that $2 of every Reclaim’s sale would go to the Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre ^[9] program.

Even though it isn’t yet perfectly green, the Reclaim seems to be a product that will lead competitors in the right direction.

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