Samsung and Sprint Make Phone Out Of Corn

In a move to inject some sustainability into the usually very un-sustainable world of mobile phones, Sprint and Samsung are introducing a handset made of 80% recycled materials. The phone, made from cornbased bio-plastics will donate $2 dollars from its fifty dollar price tag to The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre Program and comes fully equipped with webrowser, GPS, 2 mega pixel camera and stereo Bluetooth.

We are not to sure about making phones out of food, but at least it is free from PVC and other harmful materials found in most other electronics. It’s charger consumes 12 times less power than the Energy Star standard for standby power consumption and will alert the user once the phone is fully charged.

Samsung M560 Reclaim will hit the market in mid-August, available in Ocean Blue and Earth Green.

[via:Engadget]