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Sat, 26 May 2007
Solar powered cell phone from Motorola? (09:44)
Motorola has patented a new method of embedding solar power capability into a display screen. This leads to the possibility of cell phones which charge themselves. Motorola also mentioned touch screen displays and organic LEDs in the patent. If a commercial product were actually available with this technology, it would probably appeal to more people than the iPhone, since more bells and whistles on a phone only adds marginal value, but a phone you don't have to remember to charge would have real appeal to many people.Motorola is looking for openings in the cell market, I believe. I'm still trying to get the "dumb phone" for my service. That's the Motorola phone which is just a phone with long battery life. No games, Internet, video, color, just a phone which will run a long time because it doesn't use power on non-voice frills.