LG Solar phone means dead batteries are dead

Don’t you just hate it when your battery dies on you? The LG Solar Phone solves that problem, taking a renewable energy source and squeezing it inside a mobile phone you’d actually consider carrying around. That’s no mean feat!

The LG Solar phone is LG’s last surprise from Mobile World Congress, and while it doesn’t have a glass keypad, or a projector built in, like the Samsung Blue Earth phone on show, it does have one very special talent: it’s solar powered.

The LG Solar Phone will still charge like your regular mains leccy leeching mobiles, but a large solar panel across the battery cover gives you the option to charge through the sun’s rays instead: ten minutes soaking in the light will give you 3 minutes of talk time, and if it’s a spotless day, you should be able to charge it all the way to the max – if your desk has a window view.

It’s only a concept at the moment, but LG says the Solar Phone could make it to Europe by late 2009 – which by our calculation gives global warming enough time to make it useable over here. As always, we’ll keep you posted!

Via Engadget

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