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I’ve been looking for a phone that’s friendly to the environment for a really long time. I try to make sure all my purchases are responsible and in many industries that’s really easy to do. Even houses come with an eco rating and I’ve recently purchased a green hard drive which uses less energy, but I’ve always fell the mobile phone industry has a bit of catching up to do when it comes to green phones.

That is until the Sony Ericsson Elm, at least! I was so impressed with its green credentials that I felt compelled to pen a quick Sony Ericsson Elm Review. While the Elm follows the standard Ericsson monoblock design, it’s really the first green phone I’ve ever seen to really jump out at me.

Previously, most other eco handsets only had the most basic of features, but Ericsson have finally made us a handset that can rival a regular phone with features, including a 5 MegaPixel camera, multimedia capabilities and a clever design. It’s even got a built in GPS and takes advantage of the Ericsson SensMe technology to recommend playlists depending on your mood.

Other phones might be able to do things like this, but as far as green phones are concerned the Elm handset has no competition at all! It runs using a special low consumption battery which sounds like it might mean you sacrifice battery life, but instead the Elm pushes out a more than respectable 446 hours on standby, and can last for around 4 hours of calls which rivals much more power hungry handsets.

The Elm handset is so good it’s likely to start a revolution in eco phones and shows other phone manufacturers that they can make a phone that’s both better for the environment and still something that consumers want to buy!