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Originally Posted by Joseph.skb View Post
Anyone working on solar panel rechargeable batteries? Like the handheld calculators have? Solar panels are everywhere nowadays, so why not on our mobilephones since we double it as a GPS on our dashboards.
You can already buy them (that is an external battery pack with a solar panel for recharging), have a look on ebay (and elsewhere), though beware, I bought one off ebay and it was complete rubbish (the battery was nowhere near what was claimed and it couldn't seem to hold a charge). The problem is that small solar panels don't really capture enough energy to be very useful, larger ones are more expensive and cumbersome to carry around.

Last edited by retsaw; 2010-12-20 at 12:12.