Offers First-of-Its-Kind Reusable Packaging, Exclusively from Sprint
The Samsung Seek™ is an affordable and compact messaging device featuring a full-QWERTY slide-out keyboard, intuitive touchscreen and the speed of Sprint’s 3G network. Customers can express their individual style with three color options and an easy-to-use, customizable menu system that provides instant access to their favorite features and applications.
Samsung Seek is now available in Cool Blue and Scarlet Red in all Sprint retail channels for $29.99 with a new two-year service agreement, after a $50 mail-in rebate (taxes and surcharges excluded). It will be available in Fantasy Pink beginning June 6.
Innovative Environmentally Friendly Packaging
With the launch of Samsung Seek, Sprint and Samsung are the first in the United States to trial a new recycling solution that enables customers to easily reuse the packaging to ship old wireless phones, batteries, accessories and data cards with a postage-paid paper mailing label. Customers who purchase the Cool Blue or Fantasy Pink Samsung Seek can use the label and box to repackage their old equipment for recycling in less than one minute and at no charge. Sprint will recycle both the equipment and the box. To compare the performance of this new solution, the Scarlet Red Samsung Seek will contain the traditional postage-paid envelope made of LDPE #4 recyclable plastic for customers to recycle their old wireless device.
Samsung Seek eco-friendly packaging:
- Several plastic elements — the inner tray, bags for literature and the battery, and mailing envelope — are replaced with paper-based solutions.
- Box and inner tray contain at least 90 percent post-consumer waste (PCW) paper fiber, are 100 percent recyclable, and come from sustainable forests. Top sheets and liners are chlorine-free, printed with soy inks, and have a water-based aqueous coating.
- Mailing label contains 30 percent PCW paper fiber, is 100 percent recyclable, has a water-based acrylic adhesive, and is attached with glue dots that are RoHS and REACH compliant.
- Literature band contains at least 30 percent PCW paper fiber and is 100 percent recyclable.
“Sprint is committed to environmental sustainability and product responsibility,”said Kevin Packingham, Sprint senior vice president-Product Development. “Each time customers use the postage-paid mailing label with the box to recycle an old device, they are helping keep electronic and packaging waste out of landfills and support Internet safety for kids. All net proceeds from the sale of recycled equipment collected will be used to fund and promote 4NetSafety, a charitable program of Sprint Project Connect™.”
Feature-Rich Device
Samsung Seek provides convenient messaging features, including threaded text messaging, picture messaging, instant messaging and quick shortcuts to popular social networking applications such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. It also makes multitasking simple. Customers can listen to their favorite songs while surfing the Web, playing games or checking e-mail. Features include a 1.3 megapixel camera, expandable memory with microSD card (supports up to 32GB) and Sprint Family Locator. Customers don’t have to wait for technology to catch up with their lives; Sprint provides advanced technology so they can get what they want, now! The Now Network™ is about matching human needs with technology to give people the wireless experience they want.
“Samsung Seek offers Sprint customers the best messaging features and multimedia favorites in a compact and stylish design,” said Omar Khan, chief strategy officer for Samsung Mobile. “Seek provides easy customization and quick access to favorite applications and functions, and features prepaid recyclable packaging that makes mailing your old mobile phone to be recycled simple and convenient.”
