It would appear that soon phones may become pieces that you can wear instead of instruments that you have to hold in your hand. It does often become difficult to hold a mobile phone and carry a handbag or laptop bag (or both), particularly when walking. When you have to make a call, or send a message, often you need both hands. In fact that is one of the reasons that mobile phones are one of those items which are easily lost or forgotten.

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Mobile phones run of batteries which may be recharged through electricity or USB via the computer or even solar chargers which work with many mobiles. But now a designer, Daizi Zheng, has designed a slim mobile phone which can get charged with Coke.

Considering that Coke is available the world over and a can of Coke is easy to carry around, this seems like and interesting and eco-friendly concept.

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If you just cannot do without television than you will be glad to hear that Nokia, the major cell phone brand is launching an eco-friendly phone which can also catch television broadcasts. Of course it will catch the signal only provided the country supports Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld. The Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition or MTVE is going to be out in a market very soon.

The phone is stylish with a slider form. It comes with a state of the art camera with LED flash, digital zoom and video recording. It is a 3G phone with quad band GSM facilities, so it will work everywhere. It also has music and gaming facilities, so it provides an all in one entertainment package for people on the go.

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Sony Ericsson has a GreenHeart series of mobile phones which are environmentally friendly and it has just launched two new models in this series, Elm and Hazel. These phones are made out of recycled plastics, don’t use hazardous chemicals and come e-manuals, thus eliminating the use of paper.

They also come with the EP300 GreenHeart low power consumption charger. In addition, they come with the Walk Mate eco application, and with a green calculator, and use minimized packaging, condensed user guide and waterborne paint.

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No doubt like most people you have multiple gadgets and gizmos which need charging. And if you are an eco-friendly consumer, you may even have solar or hand cranked chargers for emergency usage. Or you may have more than one charger for you phone, one for home and another for your workplace.

Have you ever thought that the chargers themselves contribute to toxic landfills being filled with metals, plastics and other components? Instead of having too many chargers, it then makes sense to have only one charger, that way you will be reducing your carbon footprint.

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All major manufacturers are jumping on the green bandwagon and the USP of many of their products are their environmentally friendly credentials. Samsung, too, is in the fray, having introduced many products in different categories.

Samsung’s Reclaim phone is made from 80 percent recyclable materials. Corn and other bio-materials go in to make the handset and its components. However, it looks and feels like it is plastic. It is fully featured, having a QWERTY keyboard, camera, memory card and other value-added stuff. The package is so environmentally friendly that even the printing is done via soy ink. And it consumes less power than designated to get an Energy Star rating.

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There are many solar powered lights and other big and small gadgets, but this one is a first – it is a solar powered stereo Bluetooth speakers made by Devotec. You can even use batteries which are charged via solar power, making this extremely eco-friendly and usable.

Using latest technology it also features a touchscreen interface for various functions like fast-forward, rewind, volume and also an LED light to tell you the rhythm and charging. The speakers come with a solar panel which needs 5 hours of charging to give you 5 hours of sound.

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While there are many chargers for small gadgets and devices which work on solar power, do remember that you need sunlight to charge them. And sometimes there is no sunlight or you might need the gadget when it is dark and you have no juice left in the solar charger. At times like this an eco-friendly gadget like the Power Pump which works on foot pumping power can come to your rescue.

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The LG GD510 is a sophisticated mobile phone with a 3” full touch screen, 3 megapixel camera, and MP3 player, along with a web browser. It comes with a solar-battery cover that uses the power of the sun to charge the phone.

Apart from saving energy during the day, it is a positive for the environmentally friendly consumer. Ten minutes under the sun provides up to 2 minutes 15 seconds of talk time or up to 180 minutes of standby time.

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Imagine you are on a camping trip and you are out and about and need a light. Or you are caught in a power outage. Or you car has a flat in the middle of nowhere and you need some light – you don’t want to waste your car’s battery to power the headlights. It could be any kind of emergency situation. And if you can get a green gadget to help you out in this kind of scenario, it will be all the better.

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