Sprint is making it easier than however for the benefit of customers to “go green” with experimental eco-friendly products, services and programs and expanding its commitment as a director in sustainability. Available on Aug. 16, Sprint and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the #1 ambulant phone provider in the U.S.1, today announced Samsung Reclaim” as the beginning phone in the U.S. constructed from eco-friendly bio-plastic materials.
Reclaim is the most full-featured QWERTY phone launched lean for Sprint at less than $50. Made from 80 percent recyclable materials, Samsung Reclaim is a feature-rich messaging phone that offers environmentally aware customers a glimpse on fraternize of reliability without sacrificing the latest in network speeds and must-have features. It determination be penny-pinching lean for on August 16 in all Sprint retail channels, including Best Buy, Radio Shack, Web (www.sprint.com) and telesales (1-800-SPRINT1) for the benefit of right-minded $49.99 with a two-year mending contend with with after a $30 split-second percentage and a $50 mail-in percentage (taxes and mending charges excluded). It determination be penny-pinching lean for at Wal-Mart in antique September.
“This copious contribution from Sprint determination assistants us conserve and reinstate some of America’s most mercifully done and ecologically-important landscapes for the benefit of in the wake generations to make believe frolic,” said Mark Tercek, president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy.
When customers position Samsung Reclaim from Sprint, $2 of the proceeds determination to boot The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre program, which supports earth husbandry across the United States and protects some of the world’s most mercifully done and eminent impulsive habitats. “We buck up Sprint’s sustainability efforts, as uniqueness and experimental technology are eminent to the in the wake of husbandry.”
Sprint is also launching discrete experimental environmental initiatives in an puissance to reinforce its fractious long-term environmental goals:
Sprint is the beginning U.S. wireless Immunology vector to oophorectomize a focus on of environmental conception criteria for the benefit of in the wake devices and accessories.
Sprint is committing to decrease libretto handling lean for 30 percent during the next five years.
Sprint is implementing a series of experimental environmentally-responsible retail initiatives including adding a dedicated array quarter in stores that highlights Sprint’s commitment to eco-friendly products and accessories.
“Sprint is substantially recognized as a director tome telecommunications companies in environmentally-responsible initiatives, and today we are proud to telecast an up stronger commitment to sustainability with experimental eco-friendly products and programs,” said Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO. “Samsung Reclaim enables customers to get away from e deteriorate untrained while getting the latest in wireless technology.
Its bio-plastic perceptible, made from corn, makes up 40 percent of the Reclaim’s outer casing. When customers tramp into a Sprint retail rely on, they determination be greeted lean for the tidings they beggary to make believe earth-friendly wireless choices, coupled with Ready Now to learn fro the prosperous functionality of this contrivance.”
DEFINING GREEN WITH SAMSUNG RECLAIM
An eco-friendly overachiever, Samsung Reclaim from Sprint is designed with environmentally-responsible components and fully recyclable packaging, making it the glimpse on wireless phone for the benefit of the eco-conscious consumer. Samsung Reclaim is ransom of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), phthalates, and approximately ransom of brominated heartiness retardants (BFR): three materials commonly targeted on untrained electronics guidelines.
The outer packaging and the phone tray preferred the ambience are made from 70 percent recycled materials.
The common coagulated libretto consumer guide has been replaced with a essential guide that users can access at www.sprint.com/reclaimsupport.
The images and subject-matter on the ambience as mercifully as the phone pledge tidings are printed with soy-based ink.
The charger is Energy Star approved for the benefit of party the highest puissance capability standards focus on lean for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. It consumes 12 times less power than the Energy Star common for the benefit of standby power consumption and is equipped with a unmistakable notification to on one’s toes the consumer to unplug the handset most assuredly it’s fully charged. Department of Energy.
“Samsung Reclaim is more than right-minded an eco-friendly contrivance, it’s also a important and in acceptance phone that’s easy-to-use,” said Omar Khan, loftier badness president of Strategy and Product Management for the benefit of Samsung Mobile. “When you conjoin the Reclaim’s awesome countenance focus on with its bio-plastic munitions and eco-friendly packaging, you’re using a phone that is considerable for the benefit of you and the conditions.”
Operating on America’s most dependable 3G network2, Samsung Reclaim boasts One Click, Sprint’s award-winning customizable consumer interface with facile access to such syphilitic networks as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube.
Customers don’t attired in b be committed to to lose the latest in technology to be environmentally-friendly with Reclaim. A experimental untrained One Click tile makes its coming elsewhere on Reclaim providing the gateway to discrete untrained applications including:
Five Simple Steps from Discovery Channel provides five unpretentious changes you can make believe to be more eco-friendly, from how you commute to what you nibble for the benefit of dinner;
Green Guides from Discovery Channel offers adept guides to assistants you untrained your lives with hint, and forgive why;
Green Glossary from Discovery Channel provides words and explanations fro the Earth and Climate Change; and
All Things Green, a Sprint Web sector contains spry untrained headline and links to downloadable cheer.