A couple of interesting links of interest in the last 24 hours over on Nokia's official blog. Nokia’s new devices and the environment looks at some facts behind progress at keeping phones and their packaging as 'green' as possible. I guess when you're selling over a million phones a day then you have to really worry about the impact you're having on the planet! Also of interest was this drum-thumping post on entitled Nokia ranks number one as mobile Web platform, referring to new stats from Opera that show that in the top 20 tech-capable countries, in 16 of them a Nokia device was the leading phone used to browse the web. Some quotes below from each.

From the green post:

Every so often, Nokia is asked why it doesn’t produce a “green” phone – a device that has has been specially devised to have the lowest possible environmental impact when it comes to materials, power consumption, recycling and so forth.

There’s a few different answers to this question. But the main one is that we do produce environmentally leading devices: lots of them. In ten years, Nokia has reduced the environmental impact of comparable models (e.g. Nokia 3310 vs. X2) by 65 per cent. How has it done that, and what makes the new models better than ever? 

From the stats post:

Every month, Opera delves into its Opera Mini servers, and creates a report based on the aggregated information held within. This is called the State of the Mobile Web report. This report goes on to detail the types of handset used, the top sites visited, and also the number of page-views by a user when online. The report looks at the top 20 countries (according to Opera Mini users), and puts them side by side for easy comparison.

The August 2010 report breaks down the top 20 countries further and shows the top 10 devices used in each of those countries, and the results are impressive. In 16 out of 20 countries, a Nokia was the top device, and it’s also worth noting that in 8 out of those 20 countries, Nokia held all top ten spots.