Samsung Mobile S7550 Blue Earth

A blue earth it is. We mean there's no need to tell you our home planet is not quite in the pink. So, before you go on reading, you might want to turn off the lights and the telly, and go pick up a wind turbine and a bunch of solar panels at the local DIY. Forget where you put the car keys? Good, get the bike. Samsung says thanks.
OK, now seriously. Maybe it's good to know you're not the only one using recycled paper, composting your garbage and flushing the toilet responsibly. Samsung are perhaps really trying to encourage the effort. The S7550 Blue Earth is a gadget that gives much credence to the likely growth of eco-friendly products and technology.




The Samsung Blue Earth is a solar powered, eco-friendly phone that promotes green thinking. It's made of recycled water bottles, has an ultra low standby power DC charger and comes in a reusable box made of recycled paper. The first solar-powered touchscreen has a special "eco mode" to use the display in an energy efficient manner. The accelerometer-based step counter has a new spin to it too. It calculates how much CO2 would have been released if you drove instead of walked.





Another quite appropriate feature is the Eco Day list in the calendar, which gives you all the environment-related dates celebrated around the world. Without the Samsung Blue Earth we'd still be ignorant enough not to know what day is today. OK, not in that sense, but we honestly had no idea that September 16th is the World Ozone Day. So, take a deep breath, congratulate us on our timing and get ready for the Samsung S7550 Blue Earth.

Key features

Solar panel for battery charging
GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, GPRS/EDGE class 12, UMTS 900/2100, HSDPA 3.6Mbps
Commendable build quality
3" capacitive TFT touchscreen, WQVGA resolution (240 x 400 pixels)
180MB onboard storage, microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
Wi-Fi, GPS with A-GPS support
3.15 megapixel fixed focus camera with smile detection and QVGA @ 30fps video recording
Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, USB v.2.0
Document viewer
Exchange ActiveSync support
Smart unlock
Accelerometer sensor
FM radio with RDS
Music recognition service
1080 mAh battery

Main disadvantages

Could've been slightly thinner
The screen is poorly visible in the sun
3 MP fixed focus camera is outdated
Grip and handling compromised by the solar panel