Samsung introduces Galaxy Upcycling at Home

What about an old / older smartphone that you no longer want to use for its primary purposes? Someone solves this question simply by selling or passing it on to someone else, which is nice. But it often ends with putting the device in a drawer. However, given the current pressure on ecological behavior, it is of course so that the electronics last to serve as long as possible. Even in a limited or modified mode. It is on this idea that the project stands Galaxy Upcycling at Home, which was introduced by the Korean Samsung during the launch of news in January, led by a number of S21 mobile phones. Within it, it is possible to put away mobile phones in a simple way to Transform IoT Elements for a Smart Home |.

Projekt Galaxy Upcycling at Home

The new initiative is based on the nearly four-year-old Galaxy Upcycling project, which aims to help eliminate environmental impacts of large-scale electronics. However, since so far these have been only random and experimental steps such as the creation of an eye sensor or the extraction of cryptocurrencies, nothing extra significant has happened from the consumer’s point of view. It has a tuned project Galaxy Upcycling at Home change and move up one level. It will be about end customers and owners of older equipment. As the name suggests, everyone at home had to do the transformations.

During the presentation, Samsung showed what it is all about and how it wants to help in these situations. Instead of ending the old phone in the drawer, it will go after a special software update, transform it into a smart baby monitor or automatic light switch, for example. So far, the Korean company has shown these two examples in the presentation. In the future, however, the variants are to increase and the new form of the Upcycling project should grow to a much larger scale. And especially in such a form that the phones can be kept alive longer simply by their owners. Repairability, longer software support, replaceable batteries, omissions of chargers or packaging in packaging, or even more reasonable use of packaging materials – these are all related topics that reflect the current effort to harm the environment as little as possible. We will see where it moves on and how customers will perceive it.

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