Late last week, Sprint, Samsung, and Captain Planet announced a plan to save the world, very slowly: the Samsung Reclaim. Made primarily of corn and renewable resources, the Reclaim is a green phone – both figuratively and literally. Peter Ha, who is known (outside of his CrunchGear writings) primarily for planting trees and installing solar farms in Africa, was having none of it.

Mr. DeliveryMan just showed up with our Reclaim review unit. We’re just tearing it apart now, but we figured we’d get some pics up for those at home interested in this thing. As a side note, it should be mentioned that this phone, made at least partially of corn, does not taste like corn. Yes, Yes; I licked the phone. Purely in the interest of science, of curse. It tastes like a phone — or more accurately, like a combination of bear mace and lysol. If I drop dead mysteriously in the next 48 hours, blame Samsung.

Whether or not the whole “Green” thing is much more than a gimmick, I remain undecided – but for $50 bucks on a 2 year-contract, this feature phone really isn’t too shabby. We’ll have our hands on impressions up in a few hours.

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Unboxing (and licking) the Samsung Reclaim

We drooled over the N97 for months before release. The hardware looked pocket-perfect, the keyboard oh-so-friendly with our thumbs. But when it finally launched, it.. well, it wasn’t our favorite phone ever, to put it kindly. Of all the flaws, the most glaring was the OS; it just seemed muddled and ancient, and weighed down the phone.

The guys over at The Symbian Blog have figured out a way to make the OS seem slightly less dated. It’s a bit like sprinkling glitter onto a pile of vomit, but a quick tweak and a small options toggle will enable a fancy screen transition animation. It’s not very useful nor completely stable – but if you want to pretty things up a bit, it’s a nice trick.

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Hidden setting enables flashy transitions on the N97

Like Palm before the Pre, Motorola is on its last leg and the adoption of Google’s Android OS could make or break the handset division of the company. We’ve seen numerous images and industrial sketches of the forthcoming Morrison, but hardware specs have been absent until now. Android and Me has been tipped off on the purported specs for the QWERTY slider.

Moto has gone with a Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528MHz processor, which is the same series (MSM 72XX) chip that the G1 and myTouch 3G are powered with. RAM and ROM are the same as the myTouch at 256MB and 512MB, respectively. Screen resolution is HVGA (320