By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:08:08 +0000

As the CEO of a company that makes solar powered products (for environmental monitoring), I’d love to say that solar is the answer. The sad reality for a phone is that the area-available on a handset and the light to which it is nominally exposed is so minimal (and the cost of the panel so high) that you will net *very* little energy this way. Who wants to leave their phone outside (most commercial windows are tinted to significantly reduce IR transmission) for six hours in exchange for half a charge? The better, faster, cheaper way is to use grid-tied solar or solar power plants outright to charge a traditional chemical cell (battery) in the phone.

By: Woyteck

Woyteck — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:06:15 +0000

That’s the iea I had for G1 casing: get a solar panel on the back and charge it whenever you can.
Seriously, Android phones need lots of juice and solar power is the option to go.
I’d love to charge my mobile with thermonuclear power of our Sun.

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