{"id":207,"date":"2009-02-15T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/15\/samsung-goes-green-or-blue\/"},"modified":"2009-02-15T01:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T01:11:00","slug":"samsung-goes-green-or-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/samsung-goes-green-or-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Goes Green (or Blue?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SZi50kdnxEI\/AAAAAAAADzE\/L2mJFkahnHU\/s1600-h\/samsung-logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:hand;width:200px;height:67px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SZi50kdnxEI\/AAAAAAAADzE\/L2mJFkahnHU\/s200\/samsung-logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Ahead of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileworldcongress.com\/\">Mobile World Congress<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/\">Samsung<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellular-news.com\/story\/36025.php?source=rss\">announced<\/a> a super-cool device. Cool because it has the word &#8220;blue&#8221; in its name (it&#8217;s name is &#8220;Blue Earth&#8221;)? Or because it&#8217;s all touchscreeny-feely? No! Because it&#8217;s very green:\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s solar-powered, it is made from recycled plastics (water bottles, just like the Motorola one I <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/light-green-moto.html\">blogged<\/a> about recently). Packaging? Recycled paper. And then it also has a couple of sweet little gadgets: you can for instance see how much CO2 you saved by using the in-built pedometer. Now, this (not the pedometer, the phone) is something rather cool!\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I will maintain &#8211; again &#8211; though that the question remains why they then do not do this kind of thing across all their products? In particular a company of Samsung&#8217;s size and might could surely make a difference if this would not only concern one handset but their entire product portfolio. Come on, guys!<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:hand;width:320px;height:266px;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SZdsPaQWyhI\/AAAAAAAADy0\/T3DouOYf4S8\/s320\/Samsung+Solar.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the Mobile World Congress, Samsung announced a super-cool device. Cool because it has the word &#8220;blue&#8221; in its name (it&#8217;s name is &#8220;Blue Earth&#8221;)? Or because it&#8217;s all touchscreeny-feely? No! Because it&#8217;s very green:\u00a0 It&#8217;s solar-powered, it is made from recycled plastics (water bottles, just like the Motorola one I blogged about recently). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[84,132,183,506,551,569,601],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blue-earth","tag-co2","tag-eco","tag-pedometer","tag-recycling","tag-samsung","tag-solar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-3l","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}