Last Updated: April 10, 2021 11:01 am
Samsung introduced the Galaxy Upcycling program back in 2017 to reuse old Galaxy devices in innovative ways. Now, to help the ophthalmic health care communities in low and middle-income regions of the world, the Korean giant has introduced a new initiative. Samsung is now repurposing older Galaxy smartphones to develop affordable eye care tools.
The announcement comes via an official blog post from the company. In the post, Samsung says that around 2.2 billion people around the world have some form of vision impairment. Unfortunately, more than half of the cases were preventable only if the patients had affordable and reliable eye-care tools and services.