Nokia Solar Phone Prototype in Real World Testing

Some different Nokia news today. Nokia posted today in their company blog that the conduct a field test of a solar powered Nokia Phone. Nokia built solar panels into a Nokia C1-02 phone and gave it to four very different users around the world. A black box inside the phone records the amount of solar energy available in real use during the test phase. 

There are currently four test users. They’re in Kenya, above the arctic circle in Utsjoki, Finland, at a scout camp in Sweden, and on a boat sailing round the Baltic sea. 

One of the problem is that we carry mobile phones most of the times in pockets and bags. The amount of time a phone actually is exposed to the sun is limited. Matti Naskali, the technical lead on the project says: "Low-power charging from a power source that doesn’t provide stable energy flow is called Energy Harvesting. Using a small solar panel to charge the battery is a clear case of Energy Harvesting, because the available power depends very much on use and weather conditions. Normal charge power cannot be provided with a small size solar panel, but using technology to harvest the energy, every bit of available solar power will be collected to the battery."

You can read about Nokia's solar experiment at this blog.

 

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