Test results say Palm Pre Plus is O2 UK’s least eco-friendly phone

The apparently eco-conscious carrier O2 UK has put phones from HTC, Palm, LG, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung through a battery of tests to determine their environmental friendliness. Unfortunately only 93 percent of O2 UK’s phone lot is represented, with Apple and RIM both absent from the results.

The results concluded that while phones like the purposefully ‘Green’ Sony Ericsson Elm performed very well, the Palm Pre Plus tied with the LG Etna for the title of least eco friendly. While this is one test from one carrier with a hobbled list of tested phones compared with some of Palm’s competition here in the US, it is still troubling news. Apple, after taking some huge pubic relations hits to its image in 2006 from information released by Greenpeace, has made a concerted effort to be seen as a ‘Green’ company. If the results produced by the O2 UK study are accurate, Palm needs to react swiftly and strongly to correct this potentially huge issue. With new hardware almost certainly to be released in the near future, Palm can ill afford any missteps on their road back to profitability.

[Source: Gizmodo]