[singlepic id=1463 w=320 h=240 float=right]This morning from the home of great design, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and Samsung SVP of Strategy and Product Management, Omar Khan revealed the new Samsung Reclaim™. The Reclaim is Samsung’s first eco-friendly phone for the US and is one more step in Samsung’s efforts to become a greener company.
For this announcement, even the breakfast was green as fruit and bagels were served on plates made from recycled leaves and with utensils made of bamboo. While delicious (and nutritious) the breakfast wasn’t the only thing well designed. The star of the show was the Samsung Reclaim.
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse (standing just steps away from Central Park, home to some of his commercials) started off the festivities by explaining how Sprint’s green efforts and how the Reclaim is part of the future. Sprint was “the first wireless carrier to establish sustainable design elements for our partners,” says Hesse.
The Reclaim can certainly boast those. With a hardware casing made with corn-derived bio-plastics, an innovative charger that consumes twelve times less power than the Energystar recommendation and packing that is 70% recyclable, the Reclaim has many elements that make it sustainable. Of course what is doesn’t have may be more important. “The Samsung Reclaim doesn’t have a bulky user manual,” says Samsung SVP Omar Khan. “It doesn’t have harmful chemicals like poly-vinyl chloride and with its lighter packaging it doesn’t have a large shipping footprint.”
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And don’t worry about missing any of your favorite features either. The Samsung Reclaim has:
- QWERTY keyboard
- 2 Megapixel camera/ camcorder
- One-touch access to social networks
- Personal / Work calendars and email
The best part of it all? You won’t have to wait long for the Samsung Reclaim, as it goes on sale nationwide on August 16. As an extra incentive, for every Reclaim that is bought at Sprint two dollars will be donated to the Nature Conservancy, the world’s largest natural conservation organization.
What’s your favorite part of the Samsung Reclaim? For more information please check out the Reclaim’s press release and fact sheet. And later today we will reveal our unboxing video, so make sure to come back!
