Gets Green With Launch Of iPhone 5 Ecopak Battery Case

uNu Electronics Inc., a global provider and distributor of portable power accessories, announced today the launch of the Ecopak iPhone 5 Battery – a new eco-friendly case and power source that doubles the battery life of the latest iPhone. Designed to be the pinnacle of eco-friendly power and sleek style, the Ecopak iPhone 5 battery case features a lithium-polymer battery for more efficient and longer life-span power. To view Ecopak iPhone 5 Battery features click here."We are offering iPhone users a clear solution for getting the most out of their hardware while treading lightly on the environment," says uNu CEO, Sen Cai. "Surprisingly, relatively few cell phone users recycle their old battery packs. We're addressing this gap with a high performance product that incorporates modern industrial design and a great user experience."
uNu Ecopak Recycling Program As of 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that the national recycling rate of mobile devices and electronics with rechargeable batteries was about 10 percent. To encourage consumers to recycle their old battery packs and try the new Ecopak for iPhone 5, uNu has created a program for customers to mail in old battery packs and purchase the Ecopak at a significantly reduced price.Consumers can register on the uNu Eco-Recycle Page to receive mailing instructions to send in old battery packs. Once the old battery pack is received, program participants will receive a one-time voucher to purchase the Ecopak for iPhone 5 at $19.95, regularly priced at $79.95 USD. For complete program details and product imagery.
Free iPhone 5 Case Incentive  Consumers without an old battery case to recycle can "like" uNu's Facebook page at unucases and share the Eco-Recycling page to receive a free Ecopak snap-on case for iPhone 5 (without the battery pack).For any in-duc-tion prod-uct, you'll have to use a spe-cial case, which is the on-ly ma-jor down-side. These pro-pri-etary cas-es don't of-fer much pro-tec-tion, and usu-al-ly aren't near-ly as nice as, say, an Ot-ter-Box. If you like your case- or don't like hav-ing one- then this will be an awk-ward fit at best. The case in-clud-ed here is de-cent, but noth-ing that you'd choose un-less you had to. What's un-usu-al about this one is that the 30-pin port on your iPhone 4/4S will be blocked- and in-stead con-vert-ed to a Mi-cro USB slot! It's pret-ty un-usu-al, and means that you can't use any of your oth-er Ap-ple-type docks or plugs or adapters.
All in all, it's a step in the right di-rec-tion for in-duc-tion charg-ing sys-tems. There are still down-sides- un-til man-u-fac-tur-ers start build-ing the tech-nol-o-gy in-to de-vices, you'll con-tin-ue to need spe-cial cas-es. But it looks bet-ter, and feels nicer, than pre-vi-ous mod-els. Small enough to be portable, the Du-ra-cell Pow-er-Mat 24 Hour Pow-er Sys-tem is avail-able now on-line and in stores for just un-der $100.