A Chinese company has announced a technological breakthrough: a
mobile phone that will recharge itself through solar power and
enable 40 minutes of talk-time after being recharged for an
hour.
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Hi-Tech Wealth, a leading telecommunication products supplier in
China, claims that its mobile phone will be the first in the world
to use solar power.
The company described how a scale-like solar panel on the top of
the phone will absorb light from surrounding sources including
candles. The phone harnesses cutting-edge solar power technology to
accomplish this feat.
An official with Hi-Tech Wealth admitted that many companies
worldwide were working on similar product but that these were still
at an experimental stage.
Zhang Zhengyu, chairman of Hi-Tech Wealth, revealed that the
company began researching light as an energy source back in 2000
and pumped hundreds of millions of yuan into the project.
"With more than 400 million mobile phones in the country, China
would save a great amount of electricity if all its mobile phones
were recharged by light," Zhang said, pointing out the new phone's
battery life which dwarfs by 2.5 times conventional batteries.
Hi-Tech Wealth rolled out its light energy mobile phones at the
world's largest electronic, IT and telecommunication products trade
show CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, in March. It has planned to release
six of its solar-powered phones this year with a further 30 models
set for next year.
(Xinhua News Agency June 8, 2007)
