Save the environment - and your wallet - with $40 solar cell phone
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The world's first solar powered touch screen cell phone -- Samsung's Blue Earth -- won't be released until later this year and doesn't have a price set for it yet, but you can bet it's going to be costly.
Or at least more than $40. That's how much -- yes, $40 -- that Chinese mobile manufacturer ZTE plans to sell its Coral-200, a solar powered phone for the masses, according to the Web site Inhabitat.com.
This basic looking solar phone is black, not a coral blue like Samsung's beautiful solar phone, and it isn't a touch screen cell phone either. But it does have a solar panel on the back that powers the phone to provide 15 minutes of talk time for every hour of sunlight.
The Coral-200 launches in June. If it launches before the spiffy looking Blue Earth solar phone, it's an inexpensive way to be on the cutting edge of solar phones.
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3-02-2009 @ 7:57PM
Jesse said...
I have already heard about the solar-powered phone from Samsung, and this Coral-200 from ZTE sounds interesting as well. But I ask, how often do you leave your cell phone in the sunlight?
Last I checked cell phones and the beach do not mix very well with all of the sand and of course, water, which is always good (note sarcasm) for electronic devices.
I for one have my phone on my desk, or in my pocket hidden from sunlight if I am out and about. Good idea in theory, but is it practical?
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