{"id":658434,"date":"2013-05-16T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/?p=162469"},"modified":"2013-05-16T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T14:27:20","slug":"samsung-galaxy-s-4-is-the-worlds-first-smartphone-to-recieve-coveted-tco-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658434","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy S 4 is the world\u2019s first smartphone to recieve coveted TCO certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/reviews\/phone\/samsung-galaxy-s-4-review-the-smartest-smartphone-ever\/samsung_galaxy_s_4_main_ta\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159533\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-159533\" alt=\"Samsung_Galaxy_S_4_Main_TA\" src=\"http:\/\/img.talkandroid.com\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Samsung_Galaxy_S_4_Main_TA-630x571.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"571\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/reviews\/phone\/samsung-galaxy-s-4-review-the-smartest-smartphone-ever\/\" >Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S 4<\/a> smartphone is certainly comes with all of the bells and whistles out there for power users, but it is now environmentally-friendly thanks to its recent TCO certification&#8212; a first for any smartphone. In case you&#8217;re not familiar, TCO Development is an group that prides itself on identifying products that are\u00a0environmentally-friendly, economically viable and socially responsible manufacturing. The construction of the Galaxy S 4 is confirmed to not only be a reliable device, but it is also free of harmful metals like nickel, which can allow the phone to be recycled safely at a future date:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;In the social category, Samsung demonstrated that it is committed to socially responsible manufacturing and is compliant with International Labour Organization and United Nation conventions. In the environmental category, it was found that the GALAXY S4 was free from many hazardous materials such as nickel, beryllium, and mercury which, if present, would have severely restricted its potential to be recycled at the end its lifecycle. In terms of economic viability, the power efficiency of the charger was praised, as was the smartphone\u2019s industrial design which boosts reliability&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Congrats to Sammy on this major milestone!<\/p>\n<p>source: <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&#038;xs=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidcentral.com%2Fsamsung-galaxy-s4-gets-tco-certification&#038;sref=rss\" >Android Central<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Come comment on this article: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/162469-samsung-galaxy-s-4-is-the-worlds-first-smartphone-to-recieve-coveted-tco-certification\/\">Samsung Galaxy S 4 is the world&#8217;s first smartphone to recieve coveted TCO certification<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><small>Visit <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/\">TalkAndroid for Android news<\/a>, <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/guides\/\">Android guides<\/a>, and much more!<\/small><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/yZt3fsAdiG0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S 4 smartphone is certainly comes with all of the bells and whistles out there for power users, but it is now environmentally-friendly thanks to its recent TCO certification&#8212; a first for any smartphone. In case you&#8217;re not familiar, TCO Development is an group that prides itself on identifying products that are\u00a0environmentally-friendly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}