Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Smartphones are not good for the environment

Print out a page of where you want to go. Print out 1000 pages. Still it will take less resources than manufacturing many of the components of your touchphone.

Take a regular "feature phone", drop it on the concrete floor. Pick it up, keep on using it. Try that with a glass screen iPhone.

I can access e-mail, google maps, etc, on my 2006 phone, why should I pay 4 times as much for a limited data plan and get no real additional functionality.

An FM radio has a longer life than 64 GB of music or podcasts etc. There is something nice about having someone else do the programming.

If your current phone only needs a new battery, that should be no more than 5$. At least you will be able to change that battery.

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