Motorola SOLR (?): The Solar Powered Cellphone
Motorola has filed patent for a chargerless mobile phone that gets its juice from the LED screen absorbing the sun’s rays.
Motorola believes it can get 75% or more of the light entering through the front of an LCD to the solar cell by using a different type of liquid crystal. By switching from nematic crystals to cholesteric or polymer disbursed, Motorola says it can eliminate the use of a metallic reflector that’s used in LCDs to illuminate the screen. [source]
A lot of questions here of course. It would sorta change the way we carry around our mobile phones. When we’re low on battery, rather than look for a charger, we’d carry the mobile on our hands and not in our pocket so that the sun can do its job. When we’re home, we’d prolly leave the phone below a lamp or beside the small potted plant on the window sill.
And you know what? They’re probably going to call it, The SOLR. I just know it.
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2 opinions for Motorola SOLR (?): The Solar Powered Cellphone
Luis Cruz
May 22, 2007 at 4:37 am
I’ve got a hundred bucks (in pesos, please - so that’s a measly $2) saying they’ll stay away from that name.
Rico
May 23, 2007 at 5:12 am
You got that right!
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