Manufacturing- as far as forming technology the majority of the phone is injection molded or molded. some pieces such as the aluminum components were formed using hydraulic presses.
Phone Features- the phone is small and fits snugly within your grip, it has a 2.5" touch screen coated with plastic film and an injection molded frame finished with a chrome paint. the front of the phone has three molded silicone buttons and the rear battery panel is injection molded plastic with silicone accents.
SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS
Social media and technology hold a unique position when it comes to shaping sustainable solutions for the future or our planet. Three sustainable solutions dealing with cell phones in particular that I find most important are disaster response, education through gamification, and disease response.
Disease Response-During the past year, HP, along with partners Positive Innovation for the Next Generation (PING) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), have introduced a mobile solution to disease outbreaks in two African countries: Botswana and Kenya.
HP trained health workers to respond to the symptoms of malaria by reporting potential outbreaks via text message to authorities, which takes about three minutes. The method of disease response, before the introduction of mobile, could take three to four weeks from remote regions.
“Mobile phones in the health space feels like the Internet and ecommerce in 1994 and 1995,” says Paul Ellingstad, HP’s director of global heath. “Right now, we know it’s a connection point, since 5.7 billion people have access to a mobile phone. With that sort of pervasiveness, you can provide health information, education and prevention to millions at risk of death.”
Disaster Response-Last week, the American Red Cross released a first aid app, which provides resources for responding to emergency medical situations and general must-know information. The first aid app is the first in a series on preparedness apps the Red Cross will release this year.
Though the app has just been released for the U.S., it reveals to the power of mobile in disaster relief efforts and emergency medical response around the world. People living in remote locations can access safety procedures and how-tos when there is no medical professional around.
“We’ve reached a new paradigm of communicating and sharing information, and we think we’re going to see a very measurable impact,” says Jack McMaster, Red Cross president for preparedness and health and safety services. “The tricky part is, if you bring information to people well in advance, they don’t pay attention to it. The book format is left at home on a shelf.”
Education through gamification-Gaming for good is a concept many westerners are familiar with: Some social and mobile games feature informational content about global issues.
Games for Change has taken the idea an important step forward, by creating three educational games for women in the developing world for the Half the Sky movement, started by Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Feature phone users, without high-speed Internet connection, can take part in three mobile experiences, which teach them about deworming, maternal health, family planning, life cycle events and gender equality.
"We saw that there is an emerging market in developing world, so why not go and make change that will reach the people most effected by the issues," says Asi Burak, Games for Change co-president. "This is an amazing opportunity for people who don’t have a computer, for whom mobile phones are their only tool."
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