This will not be exciting news for Sri Lanka as it is a country which has nearly 80% of the households with access to the main electricity grid. But this would be very good news for other countries with poor electricity penetration in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Currently the above phone which is called “Ventus”, is in the prototype stage of development.
As per the TCL (http://tclproducts.co.uk/index.html), the company behind the development of this product, after cranking the phone for a minute, one can get four times that in talk time and it’s powered by a specially developed ultra thin dynamo.
Another interesting feature is that it also has solar panels incorporated into it so if you leave it in the sun it can be left on standby for extended periods of time.
Company has not revealed how near they are going to release it as a commercial product. But hope that would be a great news for people who walks miles to get their phones charged.
[Courtesy: http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/]
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Currently the above phone which is called “Ventus”, is in the prototype stage of development.
As per the TCL (http://tclproducts.co.uk/index.html), the company behind the development of this product, after cranking the phone for a minute, one can get four times that in talk time and it’s powered by a specially developed ultra thin dynamo.
Another interesting feature is that it also has solar panels incorporated into it so if you leave it in the sun it can be left on standby for extended periods of time.
Company has not revealed how near they are going to release it as a commercial product. But hope that would be a great news for people who walks miles to get their phones charged.
[Courtesy: http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/]
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Cell phones have been responsible for much economic improvement in the World. Areas to remote to wire now can get cell phone connectivity via sat-com. Since OLPC developed a computer that could be charged by wind-up I wondered how long it would take for the technology to do cell phones. The wind up generation method was around at least since 1940.
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ReplyDeleteYes, Deborah, cell phones have played good role, and it has a huge potential too.
I think why we haven’t seen the cranking or wind-up mobile phones yet (though we have seen OLPC with that), is due the need of technology improvements for a small device to have dynamo. As per TCL they use ultra thin dynamo in this mobile phone.
India too going to come up with a micro laptop just like OLPC, let’s see the technologies they are going to use in that.
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Above line in the original post has been corrected with correct percentage (80%)
Dulip - thank you for raising that.
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