What with hybrid cars and ethanol powered air travel you would think the market for foodstuffs would be exhausted, but then you hadn’t expected the Samsung “corn” phone clearly.

In a move that may be problematic if recent cellphone corn interactions are anything to go by, the Eco Phone SCH-W510 is a constructed of a shell of bioplastik derived from Corn.

A laudable attempt by Samsung to improve its green credentials the Corn phone process avoids toxic substances such as BFR (brominated fire retardants - brominated flame arresters) and PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls - polychlorinated biphenyls) and avoids the use of lead, mercury and cadmium.

So if you avoid slathering the device in butter and watching Sleepless in Seattle you can enjoy a feature set that includes 3 mp camera, Bluetooth, DMB-receiver and 3g HSDPA.