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Apple may place solar cells behind the LCD screens to enable owners of iPods and iPhones to recharge their devices without using mains electric. Source http://www.macrumors.com

A note from Green Mobile:

Would your business like to save thousands of pounds on all its telecoms bills and plant hundreds of trees (at the same time) for free? The UK’s only environmental telephone company, Green Mobile has issued a ‘Tree Challenge’ to all businesses with an environmental/CSR commitment:

“We will beat your current BT business landline and mobile bills by 10% or plant 10 trees on your behalf” says Adrian Potter, MD of Green Mobile

Take the challenge and find out how good (or not) your current telecoms deals are in 2008. Green Mobile offers market-beating landline and mobile rates (below) but they also donate 4% of business customers’ on-going phone bills to the Woodland Trust, the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity, in order to plant trees. Indeed, the Woodland Trust is recommending this offer to their business partners and any interested organisations.

Join up and it works out that one tree is planted for every £125 your company spends on its phone bill (plus 3 trees are planted for each new mobile phone contract) – you’ll also get a yearly ‘total trees planted’ certificate. However, going ‘green’ does not mean costing you more. Green Mobile believe they will win their challenge because they offer:

• 20% off BT’s standard business landline rental and select service charges
• 1p per minute for local and nation landline calls
• Mobile shared minute packages from £45 per month
• Cashback or new/refurbished handsets
• £2 per month contract free mobile phone option

There are no catches or gimmicks. For peace of mind your company is not put under contract for landline rental or call charges. Your phone number, BT set-up or services all remain the same e.g. BT engineers still fix your lines. Green Mobile line rental charges and call rates will not go up after a couple of months. To save you more money you also get:

• Unlimited free calls between Green Mobile landlines
• Unlimited free calls between Green Mobile mobiles
• Unlimited free calls from shared minute mobile packages to Green Mobile landlines

It’s easy to take the challenge. Simply go to www.greenmobile.co.uk and fill out the short Green Price Challenge form, or call their friendly and knowledgeable staff on 0845 233 0000 to request your copy. What have you got to lose? If they can’t beat your telephone bill, they’ll plant 10 trees on your behalf. If they can, join and you will save money and also plant trees!

From an earlier post - the Nokia Remade.

The mobile phone is something we can never seem to escape from. It seems to be an essential travel necessity.

In light of this I have been thinking whether there are any ‘green mobile’ phones out there. To date I have come across the Nokia ‘Remade’ concept which was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress Conference. The Nokia Remade is built using recycled materials. To find out more visit Nokia’s website.