Vodafone to launch its first solar powered handset in India

Aditi JustaJul 28 2010

Electric supply often plays hide and seek with the Indian villages, making it difficult for the people to stay connected with the outside world. Vodafone is here to prove its tag line “happy to help” correct by announcing the launch of its first solar powered handset in India. The villagers will no longer require electric power to juice up their cellphones. The VF 247 is a solar powered phone charges by itself, by exposure to ambient light.

vodafones solar powered handset

The VF 247 comes loaded with a special inbuilt hardware and software called Sun Boost, which allows the phone to charge even in room, under normal daylight. So, you can easily use normal ambient light to charge it rather than exposing it under direct sunlight. Other attractions that the phone uses to woo customers are an FM radio, color screen and a powerful torch light.

Eight hours of direct sunlight is enough to charge it completely. Once charged it will last for more than eight days and offers about four hours of talk time. Targeting the India's huge rural mobile phone market, it is reasonably priced at around $32.20 and will hit the shelves by earlier next month. I cannot wait to get my hands on it….can you?

Via: TechTree

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