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Motorola solar-panel phone

Juniper Foo | May 24, 2007

Cell phone batteries, you can't live with them, you can't live without them. Of course, there're today tons of third-party solutions to the rescue if your battery happens to die on you, from hand-crank chargers to USB battery packs. But here's something we've not seen--a hybrid mobile that packs a solar cell beneath the LCD screen. Motorola has received a patent for this, adding that its approach is vastly different as the LCD acts as both display and light-collecting device for the solar cell. The reality check is that this isn't a perfect implementation, and Motorola does have some ways to go in fine-tuning the process. But, hey, anything for a greener planet and renewable energy. So power on, we say!

Via OhGizmo

Price: N.A.
Availability: Concept
Device: Solar-powered mobile phone
Specs: N.A.

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