GLOBAL – Battery life and phone charging remains one of those intriguing and forever passionate topics of chatter here on Conversations – over the past year we’ve set our brains buzzing with the big phone charger debate and been impressed by environment and sustainability announcements, security shake-ups, and explored how important long-lasting mobile power is for many groups with different unique requirements.
This week’s comment of the week winner responds to the results of our recent business phone reader poll, which saw long-haul battery life come out on top as the most important feature in an enterprise device. Read on to find out who has won a copy of Gravity for Twitter, and to join the discussion and share your thoughts.
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ESPOO, Finland – The natural reaction at Nokia may be to blush coyly with news that it has today been named the world’s most sustainable technology company, according to the freshly released Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes for 2009-10. However, here on Conversations we’re unabashedly proud to see Nokia earn the top slot as the most sustainable technology company in the world, because we’ve been keen followers, eagerly writing about many of the great stories, projects and initiatives that Nokia has been committed to in order to help get it to the position it has achieved today.
Of course, most of the folk directly involved with bringing the ethos of innovative sustainability to life at Nokia are indeed of the blushing breed, but as we’re not (remember Conversations is written by an Anglo-Brazilian, a couple of Americans and an Irishman!) we’ll happily shine a light on some of the smart projects and some lesser-read public Nokia documents that go some way to understanding how and why Nokia continues to be so focused on being a company actively in pursuit of employing great sustainability practices.
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GLOBAL – A couple of weeks ago we posed you the question, what do you think is the most important aspect of eco phones? The poll has now closed, the votes have been tallied up, and the results are in.
Click through to find out what you and your fellow Nokia Conversations readers reckon are the top requirements of an environmentally savvy handset.
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GLOBAL – 2008 was the year that saw mobile phone chargers become a serious talking point and their shortfalls actively and openly addressed. The lifeblood of our devices, phone chargers have in many cases been rightly demonized for wasting energy, but this year we’ve witnessed the beginnings of a revolutionary change.
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GLOBAL – Only last week I posed the big phone charger question, and it was great to see so many of you get involved in the debate and post a heap of interesting and extremely well considered points.
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GLOBAL – Mobile phone chargers are often (and rightly) demonized for their vampirish juice-hungry habits, and the topic of exploring more eco and energy efficient solutions has been chatted about previously here on Conversations – way back in April, Charlie asked what if we all changed our chargers? Plus, around the same time we reported on Nokia’s prototype Zero Waste charger.
But surely there’s more to the phone charger conundrum than using more efficient chargers.
Do we even need chargers anymore?
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