Kermit the Frog claimed it’s not easy being green but in today’s age, more and more companies are producing bio-friendly products.  One of those companies is Samsung.  The Samsung Reclaim is made from a corn derived bioplastic.  Even the box is made from recycled material and the phone has an alert to let you know when to unplug it from the power source so as to not waste electricity.  To top it off, Sprint will be donating $2 from every sale to Nature Conservancy.  It comes in blue and green and is a very economical purchase at just $50.  The phone has a full QWERTY slide out keyboard perfect for constant texters and a good idea for the tween market who are pushing out thousands upon thousands of texts per month.  It has the capability to connect to popular social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter; however, it only has a WAP browser.  It uses a 2 megapixel camera capable of recording video.  I imagine this would also be a good phone for the technologically deficient people out there, like my parents, who have trouble with multi-tap texting and have no desire or use for a smart phone.  It’s far less complicated than a lot of mobile phones out there.

This is the first edition of the Samsung Reclaim and rumor has it that it will only get better as time goes.  Future editions will be configured with full web browsing, touch screens at less than double the cost of this first generation Reclaim.  I look forward to more cellular phone makers following suit and producing eco-friendly cellular phones.  Samsung is a brand I definitely trust and I hope this phone does well on the market.  The Samsung Reclaim will be available at Sprint stores starting August 16th.