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Rugged Solar Powered Cell Phone

Rugged Solar Powered Cell Phone

If you are out in the mountains, remote area or just forgot your charger. Having a flat can be a serious inconvenience, and in those remote areas a serious danger. Obviously you can carry spare packs (unless you have an iPhone) but the ultimate set-up would be to have a which can charge using solar power!

Rugged Solar Powered Cell Phone

More details and photos after the jump!

The idea of solar panel equipped phones is nothing new, Sharp have had them for a while now, but this rugged rubberized phone spotted at this years MWC is the first of a new breed of affordable solar phone.

Although pricing has not been announced estimates of around 1500 yuan have been floating around the web which seems quite reasonable for a rugged phone designed for the more adventurous techies.
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On the tech side the screen is a 3.5 inch capacitive unit, the camera is a 3 mega-pixel model and a full charge from the sun should take around 17 hours, although the manufacture states a quick 2.5 hour sunbathe should be more than enough to keep the phone going in stand-by.

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Via: M8cool

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