green smartphone Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:17:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Low Cost Dust Sensor for Smartphones Monitors Air Pollution in Real Time https://www.greenoptimistic.com/low-cost-dust-sensor-smartphones-monitors-air-pollution-real-time-20140714/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/low-cost-dust-sensor-smartphones-monitors-air-pollution-real-time-20140714/#respond Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:45:52 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48490 Our smartphones are increasingly becoming even smarter, simply because it is so much easier to carry an “all-in-one” pocket device, instead of ten different ones. So, would you be happy to know that your phone can generate an urban pollution map, with the help of a small attachable sensor, or would this be just another […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/low-cost-dust-sensor-smartphones-monitors-air-pollution-real-time-20140714/feed/ 0 48490 GreenDroid: Newly Developed Smartphone Chip Uses 11 Times Less Energy Per Instruction https://www.greenoptimistic.com/greendroid-smartphone-chip-20100906/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/greendroid-smartphone-chip-20100906/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:32:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=9969 Smartphones are looked upon as the most sophisticated and trendy devices there are on the market nowadays, since mostly everyone wants or uses one. Still, with the coming of Google's Android and the freedom from Microsoft's Windows Mobile, no big changes have been made to green up these devices, as their power consumption grows exponentially.

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