ZTE S312 The environmentally friendly (Green Phone), charges in both Sunny and Cloud-covered days and gives you 15 minutes of talk time for 1 hour of charge, and 45 minutes of talk time for 6 hours of charge in cloud-cover. The phone comes packaged with an electric charger for those subscribers who may opt to use power occasionally. he phone is now available in all retail and dealer channels and is retailing at *Ksh 2,999/=* On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000@yahoo.com>wrote:
So $afcom has lauched a solar charged phone for about 3K. Interesting especially for guys without electricity *cough*The Entire Country*cough*.
I began to wonder about the battery life thus the value of the entire package.
AFAIK, if a battery for a mobile device is discharged and recharged frequently without the charge (almost) running out then that reduces the battery life. The phone will often be exposed to the sun thus it will recharge unless there is a switch to control this. Even if there is a switch, I assume solar charging will take longer than the average time so most users would just leave it on and let the phone recharge whenever it's exposed to the sun.
If someone gets a hold of it, confirm/deny my wonders.
O_O
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