Samsung's solar Blue Earth launching in Sweden this month, elsewhere soon

First, the good news: that slide we saw back in August promising Blue Earth deliveries in October was spot on, seeing how Samsung just made an official announcement to that effect. Now, the bad: unless you're in Sweden, that doesn't mean much -- at least, not yet. The HSDPA-equipped full touch handset with an integrated solar charger is set to launch in the Nordic nation this month, with France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal, and "other European and Asian countries" following on shortly; notably missing is the US, which wouldn't benefit from the 900 / 2100MHz 3G radio anyhow. Pricing hasn't been announced, but does it really matter when you'll be saving all that cash on your power bill?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2009 5:28AM]

I love this phone since first it saves lots of trees from cutting and second it is very cool and look is also good so go for this phone.
schizophrenie

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2009 6:45AM]

Good grief what a joke.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2009 7:09AM]

Useless , stupid, and ugly too.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2009 9:28AM]

Ciphone: For When Sciphone Just Isn't Enough Of A Knockoff.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 14th 2009 10:00AM]

I really like these kind of innovations even though I am wondering whether they are really useful as it takes very long to charge the battery. I am not really sure but I do think this Samsung runs on Touchwiz as one of the many Samsung mobile phones:
http://www.samsungtouchwiz.nl

[BigJayDogg3 Posted Oct 14th 2009 9:31PM]

How do I charge my phone with sunlight? My phones live in my pockets. Do you honestly expect me to stand outside and just wait for my phone to charge? I'm guessing I'm supposed to leave it, because NOBODY would steal it right?