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From Samsung to Google, CES unveils circular tech strategies

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CES 2024 saw the announcement of responsible technology initiatives by top companies such as Google, Panasonic, and Samsung, demonstrating a significant shift towards environmentally friendly solutions. It was all about showing that you support the circular economy by using recycled materials in various electronic products, such as screens and gadgets.

Google, Panasonic, and Samsung are leading the way

Electronic behemoths including Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Lenovo, and LG made a commitment to enhance their e-scrap processing and include more recycled content into their products as part of the Consumer Technology Circularity Initiative (CTCI), an initiative encouraging tech businesses to reduce their waste.

In 2024, Google and Samsung reiterated their support for the circular economy during CES. Google took a stance in favor of the Right to Repair movement, enabling users to mend devices themselves and cutting down on waste. Similar to Google, Samsung emphasized the need to “reduce, recycle, and reuse” throughout the event, devoting a sizable section of its keynote address to environmental initiatives, particularly its advancement of resource circularity.

This also includes Palm Shaver, which substitutes plastic with Nagori, a sustainable substance made from marine minerals. Mitsubishi Electric Group introduced a recycling disco at CES to showcase the recycling technology it uses to reuse and recirculate plastic waste. As the first company in Japan to reset plastic materials on a mass scale using static electricity separation technology, this innovation has helped to mass recycle a wide variety of plastic products.

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The international electronics business LG Electronics stated in its own CES announcement of the program that it will be collecting 53 million pounds of e-scrap in the US by 2023. As a part of its e-waste recycling plan, those gadgets will be handled by e-stewards and R2-certified recycling organizations. With a goal of using 600,000 metric tons of recycled plastics in goods over all by 2013 and a 95% trash recycling rate at manufacturing facilities by the same year, LG said that it is increasing the usage of recycled plastics in 19 product categories. Samsung demonstrated how it is providing refurbished phones through initiatives like 35 renewed and Galaxy Upcycling, which encourages users to reuse or repurpose old phones.

A recent release of its new Group-wide Circular Economy Policy, which focuses on several important circularity principles like maximizing the product lifeline, minimizing the use of materials, and extending the use of recycled and renewable materials, places Panasonic among the signatories to the new CTCI pledge.

Computers produced by Lenovo and Acer also lead to a recycling process

Transitioning from tactics to goods, two of the largest PC manufacturers globally, Lenovo and Acer, appear to be exceedingly advanced in circular economy concepts, particularly with regard to the utilization of plastics. Lenovo is embracing a circular economy by implementing innovations in its supply chain, product design, and services, with the goal of attaining net zero machines by 2050. By 2022, almost 300 goods made by the Chinese business will incorporate closed-loop recycled plastic.

The business showcased a new line of yoga laptops at CES 2024 that have at least 90% PCC plastic in the power adaptor casings. recycled aluminum in the chassis, and 50% recycled aluminum in the base cover. This furthers the company’s commitment to minimizing, reusing, and recycling waste materials.

Since 2021, Acer has led the way in sustainability with its Vero laptop brand. The company’s most powerful carbon-neutral AI PC to date, the Aspire Vero 16, was presented at CES. A substantial reduction in carbon dioxide emissions during manufacture is achieved by the design chassis, which is composed of 60% PCR components. The Acer Aspire Vero 16’s inside has an OceanGlass trackpad composed of recycled plastic that was meant for shipping across the ocean, and the device is packaged entirely of recycled materials.


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Samsung Prioritizes Faster Charging in 2024 Smartphones

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The first quarter of 2024 is already over; during this interval, Samsung has introduced several Galaxy smartphones of particular belonging, such as the flagship Galaxy S24 series, the Galaxy A55 and Galaxy A35, the mid-range ones, the Galaxy A15 and Galaxy F15, the budgetable ones, and many more. But the fact is, after being the latest smartphones, they have a lack of ‘charging speed.’ 

Undoubtedly, Samsung is leading the tech industry with its top-notch features, design, and larger batteries, as compared to other Android manufacturers, but despite all this, it has a massive lack of charging speed. Samsung usually attaches larger batteries to its Galaxy smartphones to enhance the users’ non-stop-using experience. But a larger battery isn’t worth it unless it has a good charging speed. 

On the other hand, Chinese manufacturers are equipping their smartphones with charging speeds north of 100W, whereas 45W is the maximum speed you can get on Galaxy smartphones. However, even 45W charging is quite rare among Galaxy phones. Samsung has launched most of the Galaxy devices in the last couple of years, including the flagship with support for 25W. 

Here we are making things easy for you if you are looking to buy a Galaxy smartphone that debuted in 2024 with the support of 45W charging speed by mentioning a list of devices: 


The list is quite short, even considering that the Galaxy F55, M55, and C55 are just rebranded variants of the same smartphone for different regions. Now Samsung is setting up to launch its next-generation foldable devices, the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, in July, but it is yet to be confirmed whether these devices will get a boost in charging speeds from 25W or not. 

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New Galaxy Phone In Existence: Samsung Galaxy M35 5G Spots On Geekbench 

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The Korean brand – Samsung has recently announced its two mid-range Galaxy smartphones – Galaxy A55 5G and Galaxy A35 5G. A new benchmark listing has a spot for Samsung’s affordable smartphone, Galaxy35 5G.  

Samsung is now gearing up for its next affordable Galaxy smartphone, the M35 5G, as the  reports are unvunveilhey have found a new benchmark listing for Samsung the Galaxy M35 5G. 

The smartphone has been spotted with the model number as an identification code – SM-M356B on the Geekbench 6.2.2 database. Not only this, but it also confirmed the presence of 6GB of RAM and Android 14 OS. The chipset also came to know which is the latest Exynos 1380. 

The codename for the motherboard is also mentioned, which is ‘s5e8835.’ The reports say that it has scored 656 and 1967 points in performance scores on the benchmarking platform. Exynos 1380 is the latest chipset of the Korean brand, which is a 5 nm processor. It consists of 4 Cortex A78 cores, which clock at 2.4GHz, and 4 Cortex A55 cores, which clock at 2.0GHz. It is coupled with a Mali g68 MP5 GPU. It also has an AI Engine. 

This also offers connectivity options, which include the latest Bluetooth version 5.3 and Wi-Fi 802.11 ax with three bands. It supports a camera resolution of at least 200MP for capturing images, and for video recording, there is support for up to 30fps 4K recording. The storage supported is UFS v3.1, and RAM will be of the LPDDR4x/5 type. 

Samsung has recently debuted its two smartphones, Galaxy A55, and Galaxy A35; the Galaxy A35 5G smartphone is powered by Exynos 1380 chipset. From this perspective, Galaxy M35 5G could be a variant of Galaxy A35. 

At the moment, no specs and features of the device have been revealed or leaked. Still, since Galaxy M series smartphones usually have a bit higher battery power of at least 6000mAh, the forthcoming Galaxy M35 5G smartphone also arrives with the same battery power. 


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Verizon rolls out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 devices 

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Verizon has rolled out the March 2024 security patch update for the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 devices. Earlier, these devices had received the same update outside the US, but now they are gradually expanding to the US.

The Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 are spotted getting new updates with the firmware version numbers F926USQS5HXBD and F711USQS6HXBD, respectively. It is worth noticing the update is currently available for the devices locked to Verizon, but it will soon be available on more carriers. 

For your information, the latest update for Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 doesn’t bring any significant changes, but as it is the latest security patch, it will provide some internal fixes to maintain the security of the devices.

If you are getting some other issues from the last update, you should also update the device to the latest update, as it may also address some issues. Along with the update, other improvements may also be made to enhance the overall performance of the devices.

Suppose you use the Galaxy Z Fold 3 or Flip 3 device in the US. In that case, you can update the device to the latest version by simply going to the system settings and then to the software update. If you haven’t received the update, you should wait for some time, as it may arrive in the next few days.


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