Korea is known to be one of the countries leading the way in developing a more environmentally responsible economy. So it is no surprise that their Samsung smartphone manufacturing arm recently pulled down an award for the first time ever for a mobile handset. TCO Development is a firm which grades all kinds of companies on several environmentally friendly parameters. These range from how many hazardous materials are used in the manufacturer of a product to its eventual recycling potential. They named the Galaxy S4 as the first smartphone they have ever given a sustainability award to.
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The strict grading also checks to see whether a company releases nickel, a potentially hazardous allergen, in the creation of its product. TCO praised Samsung for manufacturing their globally popular and best-selling S4 smartphone without using hazardous materials like mercury and beryllium. The award even takes into account the efficiency of the recharging mechanism included with the smartphone, as well as other factors which would lead to efficient sustainability throughout the life of a product.
Becoming TCO Certified is the second “green machine” certification the Galaxy S4 has been awarded. Independent third-party testing lab UL Laboratories awarded the Samsung Galaxy S4 its platinum ECOLOGO certification, remarking that the handset will have an extremely minimal impact on the environment throughout its life cycle. The popular Galaxy S4 4G Android smartphone has sold a record 10 million units in less than its first month of availability, a feat which it took the bestselling Samsung Galaxy S III 50 days to achieve.
The Galaxy S II was also a very popular smartphone, but it took an entire five months to reach that 10 million units sold mark. The popularity of the Galaxy S lineup continues to grow for Samsung, and the Galaxy S4 handset is the most recent device to launch in that line. Cutting-edge technologies such as vision tracking, hands-free and touch-free call answering and display scrolling, and a large screen with one of the highest resolutions found on any phone are all on board.
The S4 was manufactured in an extremely slim and light form factor, measuring just 0.31 inches (7.9 mm) in thickness. The handset only weighs 4.59 ounces (130 g), but delivers a large 5.0 inch Super AMOLED screen. That Full HD display offers a resolution of 1,080 x 1,920 pixels, with an extremely high pixel density running 441 ppi. Up to 17.0 hours of talk time is achieved from a full battery charge, and the handset is powered by a quad core Snapdragon 600 CPU clocked at 1.9 GHz. Available in 16 GB and 32 GB models, both of those variants offer 2.0 GB of RAM memory and a microSD slot for storage expansion.
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