Long-term readers of our humble little blog may well remember that ages back, I did a story about the environmentally friendly Bamboo phone.
And I didn’t like it.
I thought it was pointless, in the same way I think that wind-farms are pointless when clean, safe nuclear power can provide a far more effective answer to the question of environmentally-sound, high yield power generation. Well, by that analogy, if the Bamboo phone was the wind farm, then Sony Ericsson have made the clean-burning nuclear fusion plant, with the Sony Ericsson Greenheart (as reported by the Boy Genius Report), one of the growing number of eco-friendly concept mobile phones, and unusually, one that you’d actually want to own!
There’s a very simple reason for that. The Bamboo phone was hideous, and had a stupid charging handle, that would make any call you made, if you had that mobile phone and had to hand-crank it before you could ring anyone, into a heavy breathing call.
The Sony Ericsson Greenheart concept, on the other hand, looks as though it’s modelled on the Sony Ericsson W880i (one of the thinnest mobile phones on the market, ever), and doesn’t have a stupid crank handle. And it looks good. It’s a gorgeous little beastie, and quite, the first eco-mobile phone I could see myself using… all that, and it’s made of bioplastic, too (I love the word bioplastic, it sounds all Star Trekky).
Like I said, back in that Bamboo story, eco-mobile phones (and all eco-products, I reckon) need to be designed by realists, not hippies, and not just be eco-friendly, but also be at least as good as so-called planet-killing technology. The Sony Ericsson Greenheart concept mobile phone is, honestly, the first mobile phone that I can say, hand on heart, fulfils those criteria.
Could it be the mobile phone that changes the game? Could it be the phone that ushers in a new green age?
Only time will tell, but it stands more chance than the baby-panda-phone…
Like that slim design? Grab yourself the Greenheart’s inspiration, the Sony Ericsson W880i, today!