Samsung advances green efforts with recycled cobalt in Galaxy S25 batteries

23 January 2025
Up to 50% of the cobalt is from old Galaxy devices.

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  • 5 hours ago

Anonymous, 17 hours agosamsung's innovation for batteries this year: recycled... moreChinese OEMs shifting to silicon carbon battery and I'm not sure if this battery uses cobalt or not.

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    • 17 hours ago

    samsung's innovation for batteries this year: recycled cobalt 🤗

    meanwhile chinese companies: 🗿

      Anonymous, 23 Jan 2025the things with people in comment section is just prone to ... moreLow stakes arguing is the great internet pastime

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        • KiX
        • 23 hours ago

        Anonymous, 23 Jan 2025the things with people in comment section is just prone to ... moreMany people especially american will always use spy to bring hate to chinese phones. What an outdated excuse.. it feels pathetic when people still trapped on cold war era mindset. Come on... its 2025.

        Oh yes they also bring excuse that chinese product is cheap knock off bla bla bla. Sorry, but i'm pretty sure that cheap knock off phone such vivo x200 pro camera will be outperform your s25 series, and even iphone 16 pro max.

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          • 23 Jan 2025

          Anonymous, 23 Jan 2025I've seen so many bashful comment against chinese phon... morethe things with people in comment section is just prone to siding
          either side with A or B, rarely you find neutral people

          and what make it worse is that, each side love to mock each other
          thus comments will always be like this

          if only people realize, phone manufactured nowdays is quite similar to each other, there different in features and prices, so its back to user preferences

          for gsmarena, even though there "No bashing" rules, but most comments seems allowed as long it not went to far, well its better have people commenting in the post, rather than no comment because strict rules

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            • 23 Jan 2025

            sdkk, 23 Jan 2025If Samsung is so concerned about the environment and e-wast... moreyou're wrong, they been making the upgrades smaller and smaller, so after I watched the s25 announcement, I'm still happy with my s23 ultra, I'm able to access almost all the ai features in oneUI 7, which is over 80% of the new features on s25

              nice, but this also could mean samsung won't be using Silicone-Carbon (Si/C) batteries anytime soon

              anyhow, good initiative from samsung 👍

              even if Samsung were to switch to Si/C the next year, we'd still have lots of phones with Li-Ion battery being used in the world. When those phones will be disposed, someone will need to recycle those Li-Ion batteries. So it's nice to see Samsung do this themselves.

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                • 23 Jan 2025

                Anonymous, 23 Jan 2025You are again inferring a lot of things I never said. You a... moreI've seen so many bashful comment against chinese phone. What's wrong with chinese phone? It's fast, cheaper, offer better camera, better cooling, better screen, better battery life, better fast charging. Almost better on all aspect than samsung phone except perhaps software support. Spy? No concrete proof chinese phone spy on you or your samsung and iphone dont spy on you. Your racism wont bring you anywhere. If you bit more mature and open minded, you will find better deal than s25 series.

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                  • 23 Jan 2025

                  Great! Samsung developed a plan to make even more money!

                    Recycled battery sounds fair tbh. but more like recycled one from S22 Series's battery until S50 Series will use it again.

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                      • 23 Jan 2025

                      Sam N8 808 owner, 23 Jan 2025Among the 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, the recycle i... moreAnd they dump those phones to be resold in uncompetitive third-world markets (especially Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Brazil, Sudan, etc), artificially made out of stock in their markets after having a handful sold from those so-called "Big Billion Days" and other clearance sales, all while making a massive profit from those reselling. The smartphone business isn't definitely unprofitable, after all.

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                        • 23 Jan 2025

                        sdkk, 23 Jan 2025If Samsung is so concerned about the environment and e-wast... moreAnd completely outsourced to an infamous Chinese ODM (Wingtech) for design and manufacture, the same ODM used by their main competitors (Apple, BBK, Lenovo, etc), all that with an unused inventory that depreciates for ages with numerous environmental hazards. What's not to love?

                          sdkk, 23 Jan 2025If Samsung is so concerned about the environment and e-wast... moreit's never been about the environment. all this recycling stuff is just greenwashing marketing nonsense

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                            • 23 Jan 2025

                            FF7, 23 Jan 2025It's called a business. They're not tricking. The... moreYou're comparable apples with oranges. Smartphones are less than 15 years old technology. Vehicles on the other hand more than 100 years. Still they at least clear cut say generation or facelift. If Chinese can do so should shamlessung

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                              • 23 Jan 2025

                              Until Silicon Carbon battery technology matures, then there's not much point in switching. Besides, most phones using these have terrible battery life.

                                Just buy a used phone

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                                  • 23 Jan 2025

                                  Gnusmas, 23 Jan 2025yes, lack of easy battery replacement and lack of original ... moreThat's why mist of these green efforts are laughable. But the replaceable batteries of old days won't make them money. Would've been nice to combine both fast charging and removable batteries.

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                                    • 23 Jan 2025

                                    who cares this crap!!! need bigger battery and faster charger,this is why expensive phone to recycle trash and the user get the same trash samsung every year,better if innovative something and not release the same phone very year that help the planet!!!

                                      Samsung will keep these capacities and charging speed till S30 at least.

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                                        • 23 Jan 2025

                                        sdkk, 23 Jan 2025If Samsung is so concerned about the environment and e-wast... moreIt's called a business. They're not tricking. They're selling. And Samsung isn't the only one guilty of this. Everyone in the phone industry is guilty. OEMs are better off releasing a new phone every 2 years. But then automobiles are the same way. They release a design of a car that practically looks the same as last year. They use designs for 5 years and that gets called a generation. Should automobile manufacturers stop releasing cars every year because 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 models all looks the same?

                                        Everyone in every industry recycles the same things over and over to consumers. A new laptop may look the same as the one from 2 years ago. That's how business works. We could easily say the Switch 2 is the same thing to the Switch 1 from 8 years ago. I do wish Samsung returned to their designs from 2015-2019.