Home Solar Powered Mobile Phones
There has been a lot of coverage in the press recently about home solar powered mobile phones. ZTE & Samsung have both unveiled a low-cost home solar powered mobile phone at the Mobile World Congress. The Samsung phone, called Blue Earth, is also claimed to be free from harmful environment damaging chemicals. They state that it will take 10 to 14 hours of direct sunlight for a full charge. The phone also comes with a conventional plug in charger if you can’t leave your phone sitting in the sun for 14 hours a day.
Although fitting solar panels to a device that you mostly keep in your pocket or purse initially seems a little futile, it is certainly a step in the right direction towards green living. There are already home solar powered chargers on the market that charge a storage battery. You can then simply plug in your phone to the home solar powered charger at night for an overnight charge. This is probably of more use to most people.
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