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Why not a Solar Powered Cell Phone?

Before, only business men can be understood to have mobile phones since they should have one for business matters. Now, even children can have mobile phones. With technology being fast and progressive, things that granted entertainment before that were too big and bulky can now easily be brought along our available pockets.

It very impressive when a certain gadget can do multiple things aside from the feature that it was developed for.  Cell phones are an obvious example of these kinds of gadgets. Not only can we communicate with others with it through calls or that short messaging system, developers have now integrated such features like taking images or even capturing videos. Mobile phones can now also run games that users can play with. And as if you had enough of watching videos and listening with music that you either got from someone through wireless connectivity, you can also browse the net with them and perhaps download files.

Smaller seems better. Mobile phones for communication, music players to listen to, hand held gaming for gamers on the go and even PDAs that can be more accomodating than ten organizers bound together. Sometimes, a single gadget that can just do all. However, be it a gadget with a single purpose or ones with multiple features that can help you do one's homework while listening to nice tunes, these conveniences would be rendered useless if the power from their battery is exhausted. Good thing that rechargeable batteries were developed or we'd be piling up heaps of dry cells.

Yet, even with rechargeable batteries, we still have to plug our gadgets for a couple of hours to have them fully charged and even though we could say that they would last a good amount of time, depending on how we would be using our gadgets since the endurance of the battery varies on how the gadget is used, we still go back on plugging them again when its drained. Simply put, without energy from the battery, the convenient features that we often use from our gadgets would cease.

So for now, in case there isn't an available outlet to plug our gadgets to get charged, we may consider on getting another rechargeable battery for the gadget that we have for replacement. Though it may not be inconvenient for some, others still get troubled when their gadgets cease functioning due to energy shortage so having an extra makes it convenient once more.

By: Rocky
Published: 07/21/08


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    4 Posted Comments:

    Idea!

    @ 12:01 am 07/24/08 by niksan
    I think that is an excellent idea. I wonder why cell phone manufacturers haven't thought of this yet and if they have, why haven't they implemented it yet?

    There are watches that run on solar power, or some watches recharge using your body heat etc. Solar powered cell phone sounds great!
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    A good idea, but is it feasible?

    @ 1:01 am 07/24/08 by nerdassassin
    I really want to know if that is feasible now. Because if it takes a good amount of time to charge a phone, how much sunlight and how big your solar panel would be to generate power enough to even sustain old phone models? With features such as camera and stuff, a mobile phone is so different compared to calculators and watches that can be operated by sunlight. So i really want to know if this idea will be able to penetrate the minds of the innovators today. In any case, bringing a solar-panel backpack to collect electricity and use it to charge a cellphone might be a solution.
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    If it were possible..

    @ 5:29 am 07/24/08 by Rocky
    I guess if it were already possibly available, we'd have them already around the market. It is indeed difficult to harness energy from sunlight with little space that a solar panel that can be place onto a mobile phone.

    I think a solar-panel backpack has already been available in the market.. Saw one from a magazine that goes along with current technologies..
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    @ 1:22 pm 07/25/08 by Nax05
    Solar powered things are becoming pretty commonplace in some states, so I think if cellphone companies really cared, they could have put this on the market already. Unless there's something stopping them, there could be a small detail that makes this impossible. I don't know. Just a thought.
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