Micromax has announced their first solar-powered phone for the Indian market. The X259 may not entice you on the specs front but the fact that it supports a clean power source to charge the phone and costs just Rs. 2,499, the phone could prove useful to users in region where electricity supply is marred […]
Sharp creates industry’s thinnest solar module for mobile devices
Sharp has introduced a solar module that can possibly pave way for solar powered gadgets in addition to mobile phones. Their thinnest solar module currently measures at 0.8mm and it is mainly achieved by using compact semiconductor packaging technology that helps to deliver a maximum power of 300mW. The LR0GC02 solar module is now […]
KDDI unveils summer collection: 720p, solar and e-book reader phones
KDDI au has unwrapped its new offerings that will amaze the Japanese citizens this summer. There are some interesting phones out of the eight models announced. First is Hitachi’s Mobile Hi-Vision CAM Wooo, capable of recording videos at 720p, 30fps and comes with an HDMI-out to view the HD recorded video on an HDTV. […]
LG announces solar powered flip phone
Are we going to see a new type of war soon between handset manufacturers? Just when Samsung introduced its solar powered touch phone, its Korean peer, LG also announced its solar powered clamshell phone. We are not pro at Korean but the rough machine translation says a 10 minute charge could give up to […]
Samsung Blue Earth Phone will make environmentalists happy
Samsung just announced Blue Earth phone which is by far the greenest phone I have seen. The touchscreen phone has a solar panel at the back which is used to charge the phone. Apart from being solar powered, Samsung has not used any environment harming components. The handset is made from PCM recycled plastic […]