Samsung’s steps towards a Greener World: World’s First Solar Powered phone | Solar Guru
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This time its from Samsung, which recently launched its first ever Solar powered phone in India, known as “SolarGuru” [Guru E1107]. Its perhaps the greenest phone on the lines of “Blue Earth” to be launched in Britain Later this year. Solar Guru allows users to charge the battery using solar energy once the battery runs out of charge.The price Rs 2799 (59$).
Samsung targets this phone towards rural India especially people residing in areas facing power crunch so that they can rely on solar charging to remain connected.Certainly the cutting edge technology such as solar power would boost its sale and help Samsung to make inroads into the Indian rural sector.
Instead its cheap & affordable, its other features include dual GSM bands (900/1800MHz),1.52-inch 65K CSTN screen, Mobile Tracker, Fake Call, 800mAh battery,FM radio, MP3 ring tones, embedded games and torchlight. Made out of recycled material, the new handset is free from harmful substances such as beryllium and phthalates. The hybrid solar recharge phone delivers around 5-10 minutes of talk time with one-hour of solar charging when the handset is turned off and sunlight has adequate intensity. The battery will attain full power with about 40 hours of solar charging. On similar lines the counter part “Blue Earth” which is a touch phone delivers 4 hours out of 12 hours of charging.But still my take is Solar powered phones have a lot to cover in terms of getting people rid of battery charging.
Last month, a Chinese manufacturer also announced a solar-powered cell phone. It claims that placing the phone under strong sunlight for one hour will support 15 minutes of talk time and about eight hours exposure to strong sunlight is required to fully charge the cell phone. Japanese electronics company Sharp is also planning to launch its solar-powered phone SH002, which can give one minute of talk time and two hours of standby with a 10-minute charge in the sun.
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