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iPhone 4

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iphone4g iPhone 4We’ve just gotten some face time with the new iPhone 4, and let’s just say this: it’s incredibly sexy. We’ll hand it to Apple, the phone is so thin it’s kind of mind-boggling. The 3GS by comparison looks bloated. Feast your eyes on the pics below, and check out the FaceTime video demo after the break! Oh, and special thanks to hand models Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.

Some takeaways about the device:

  • As we said, it’s shockingly thin.
  • The screen is truly outrageous — you basically cannot see pixels on it. We’re not being hyperbolic when we say it’s easily the best looking mobile phone screen we’ve ever laid eyes on.
  • The build quality is really solid. The home button feels much snappier, and on the whole it just feels like a tightly-packed device, but it’s not heavy.
  • The side buttons are really nice and clicky.
  • iOS 4 is very familiar — there’s not a lot added to fit and finish.
  • The general speed of the whole OS is way snappier. The camera app in particular is noticeably faster — shots get snapped in an instant.

6 Reasons Why You Should Recycle Your Cellular Phones

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cell phone recycling 6 Reasons Why You Should Recycle Your Cellular PhonesSome Not-So-Fun Facts

Cell Phones are environmental hazards! If not disposed of properly cell phones are damaging to our air, soil, and water:

1. One cell phone can pollute up to 132,000 liters of water.
2. Cell phones (and other electronic devices) contain toxic substances such as arsenic, lead, cadmium, and beryllium that can pollute the air when burned in incinerators and leach into soil and drinking water when buried in landfills.
3. Cadmium can damage the kidneys and it is transferred through the air and through our food.
4. Lead accumulates in landfills and can cause damage to the central and peripheral nervous systems.
5. Mercury gets into our water supply and accumulates in living organisms and travels up the food chain. The principle exposure pathway is through our food and it causes braid damage.
6. Cell phone recycle campaigns are good for our environment because all collected cell phones and electronic devices are either refurbished or disposed of using only the most ecologically sound methods.
Here’s a great idea. Why not take those used & unused wireless devices lying around in some box at your home of office and recycle them to the benefit of the environment and a selected Not-For-Profit (NFP) who needs your help. A little ‘GREEN’ initiative can go a long way.

This is how your mobile phone donation can help!

If only 10% of 5,000 donors send in just one cell phone… that would be 500 basic mobile devices at approximately $2.50 per device to the benefit of the selected NFP… which would equal $1,250.
Let’s say 10% of the devices where BlackBerry’s or smart phones… that would be 50 devices at approximately $20 a device and the NFP would receive… $1,000
Combined that would be $2,250 for this one major effort!

Corporate accounts usually update their mobile cell phones every 12 to 18 months. Most of these are high-end or smart devices and bring greater value to the donated cell phone for the selected NFP. These retired devices still have some value but not to their corporate owners, which make them perfect for donation. As the corporate donors are continually retiring devices or having the retired devices placed in a box or being thrown away… it just makes sense to GO GREEN and donate these phones for recycling to the benefit of your favorite NFP.

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