In case you didn’t know, sports outfit creator Puma teamed up with Sagem and created the very cool Puma Phone. The device is pictured below and it was announced and demoed yesterday in Barcelona, during MWC 2010.
This is a solar-powered handset, with a solar panel at the back, a GPS, a front facing camera, built-in FM radio and a 3.2 megapixel...
The concept phone pictured below is a solar handset, known as Label With Green, designed by Shao Wei Huang, Chung Kai Chiang, Yu Pei Kuo and Chia-Yi Cho. This device is based on ECO-Green Electronic Labels, solar panel sheets that get inserted into the back side of the phone to power various features up.
Each solar sheet fits a certain part of the...
Although some of you may consider Samsung’s Blue Earth handset, unveiled back in February a pioneer of its kind, since it uses solar power and packs a touchscreen, there’s another player on the green & mobile market. Safaricom, Kenya’s top mobile phone company recently started the release process of a solar powered mobile phone.
The...
Samsung has already announced a solar powered phone in February, Blue Earth, but now they’ve just unveiled the first commercially available solar handset, E1107 Crest Solar.
This is a low-end candybar, meant for emerging markets and packing a 800 mAh battery that can be charged in the standard way, but also via the back side solar panel. Samsung...
As recession gets tougher for Japan, major companies like Sharp start thinking about expanding their reach, into the neighbouring countries and even further, to territories like America. Turns out that Sharp plans to sell more handsets internationally, instead of focusing on their home country.
This intention was announced yesterday during a press...
After seeing what LG and Samsung can do in the eco-friendly phone segment, here comes another solar-powered handset, this time fitting in the low cost phone market. Enter Coral-200-Solar, a handset launched by Digicel Group, the world’s first low cost solar-powered cellphone.
Coral-200-Solar was manufactured by ZTE and it uses the company’s...
During Mobile World Congress 2009, in Barcelona Samsung introduced the first full touch screen solar powered phone, known as Blue Earth. With the motto “The Blue Earth Dream: Eco-living with Samsung Mobile”, the South-Korean manufacturer aims to protect the nature and provide high end technology to its customers.
Blue Earth is made out...
Samsung couldn’t miss its chance to show off a green gadget at Mobile World Congress 2009, so they’ll be introducing the Blue Earth handset, as green as it gets when it comes to saving the Planet.
The handset is made out of PCM (recycled plastic from water bottles) and it comes with an “eco” mode that adjusts screen brightness,...