Sprint launches Samsung M560 Reclaim, an affordable and eco-friendly QWERTY phone

Samsung Reclaim M560

Sprint has launched the Samsung Reclaim M560, an ultra-affordable and eco-friendly phone for the environmentally conscious. The attractive slider device features a full-QWERTY keyboard, a 2.0 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and more.

The Reclaim is created from 80 percent recyclable bio-plastic material, its packaging is compact and made from 70 recycled materials and printed with soy-based inks. Samsung offers only an electronic manual for the phone, available on the Sprint website, in an effort to save paper. It also includes a more efficient Energy Star phone charger.

The Samsung Reclaim includes a customizable user interface with Sprint's 1-Touch access to green applications that provide information on ways to make your life more eco-friendly as well as standard Sprint services.

Two dollars of each Reclaim purchase will benefit Nature Conservancy's Adopt an Acre conservation program. Sprint also announced efforts to support other green initiatives. It has established environmental design standards and as a corporation it has pledged to reduce paper usage by 30 percent over the next five years.

The Samsung Reclaim M560 will be available August 16 for under $50 after two-year customer agreement and mail-in rebate.