The amount of electronics thrown away rather than recycled in 2007.
The EPA reports that 82% of electronics disposal in 2007 ended up in the garbage (mostly landfills) rather than a recycling center. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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I picked up a Cyclops earlier this week. I liked the fact that Virgin Mobile had pay-as-you-go plans and didn't lock you in with contracts. The Cyclops looked to have the nicest camera, so I went for that.
I've since come to understand some of its limitations. The Cyclops is the only VM phone that can shoot pictures at 1024 x 1280. The only problem is, at that resolution, some pictures will be too large, memory-wise, for you to get them off the phone. The only way you can get pictures off the phone is to send them via message, or upload to their website. I had one picture that was over 500Kb, and I couldn't do either, just getting a message about the picture being too large to send. The manual for this phone mentions that there may be size limits on the pictures you send and to check their site for details. Couldn't find details on their site, or get any details from their customer service, but, like I said, I think it may be about 500Kb. The higher res camera isn't very useful if you may end up with pictures you can't get off the phone.
Another limiting factor: memory. The VM website tells you that this phone has 256 megs of memory. That's pretty deceptive though, because when you get it there's only about 10 megs free. It doesn't have a memory card, and you aren't allowed to delete much, so you can't get much more than 10 megs to use.
I wasn't expecting a whole lot from a $60 phone, but I was a bit disappointed in it nonetheless.