News Forum - Samsung builds new phones with old fishing nets, bets you’ll pay premium prices for them

[Thaiger]

Your next Samsung smartphone will certainly come with a hefty price tag, despite presumably less premium materials. But you can feel good about it because, who knows, you might be saving the whales. In a Sunday press release on their website, Samsung announced it has created a new material “made with repurposed ocean-bound discarded fishing nets,” which it plans to use in all future mobile devices, beginning with its newest lineup of Galaxy S smartphones to be announced at their Unpacked event on February 9. So you can expect lower prices, right? Probably not. The upcoming Galaxy S series lineup […]

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[TravellingThaiGerrr]

I think it's a good cause, even if they're literally fishing for good PR with used nets. At least they're raising awareness about a real problem that needs fixing. Besides the missing marine rescue stats, what I really want to know is will their new phones ship with Free Willy cases?

Edited February 7, 2022 by TravellingThaiGerrr

[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

3 hours ago, Thaiger said:

650 hundred thousand tonnes

Sounds like they know what they're tlsking about