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Sprint Announces the Samsung Reclaim And Other Green Initiatives
Aug 6, 2009, 7:23 AM
Today Sprint announced the Reclaim from Sprint, a phone that was made with 80% recycled materials. The phone's charger consumes 12 times less power than the Energy Star standard ...   read

MotionTouch Debuts Solar-Powered Charger
Jul 28, 2009, 7:34 AM
A U.K.-based company called MotionTouch introduced a new charger today that can recharge phones through solar energy. The Powcell -- initially designed for iPhones and certain BlackBerries -- is ...   read

Motorola Patents LCD with Built-In Solar Cell
Apr 23, 2007, 4:03 PM
Motorola recently patented technology that combines a solar cell with the LCD screen of a mobile phone. The solar cells are essentially a thin film called transparent conductive oxides ...   read

Google Upgrades 'Earth' for iPhone
Nov 16, 2009, 7:49 PM
Today Google made Google Earth 2.0 available for the iPhone. The biggest new feature is the ability to access and view Google Earth maps that users have created on ...   read

Samsung Demos New Low-Power LCD Tech
May 26, 2003, 12:29 PM
Samsung Electronics last week announced the industry's first 4-color TFT LCD technology. The new displays add a white subpixel to the usual red, green, and blue. The new displays ...   read

Sony Ericsson Kicks Off Green Campaign with New Phones
Jun 4, 2009, 7:10 AM
Today Sony Ericsson announced a new program that it hopes to use to reduce its CO2 emissions in its internal operations 20% by 2015, and reduce its entire CO2 ...   read

Samsung Announces the E1107 Crest Solar Phone
Jun 11, 2009, 12:22 PM
Today Samsung announced a solar-powered mobile phone called the E1107 Crest Solar. The E1107 is able to charge the battery via the sun, and can provide 5 to 10 ...   read

Company to Offer Motion-Based Phone Charger
Aug 25, 2008, 2:40 PM
A company called M2E Power is developing technology that will harness the kinetic movement of the human body to charge electronic devices, including cellular phones. The charging station would ...   read

LG Intros Solar-Powered Car Kit
Jan 7, 2009, 11:39 AM
Today LG introduced the HFB-500, a new mobile phone car kit that uses solar power to provide the energy necessary to run a speakerphone when in the car, making ...   read

Samsung Announces New Bio Phone
Aug 14, 2008, 7:54 AM
Today Samsung announced a new phone made partially from bioplastics. The E200 Eco is a new bar-style phone, and its entire exterior case is formed from bioplastics, which are ...   read

Intel Looking At New Ways to Harness Electricity in Mobile Devices
Dec 8, 2008, 9:07 PM
Intel recently announced that it is working on ways to grab energy from the environment in order to reduce mobile electronics' reliance on rechargeable batteries for power. The sensors ...   read

Google Brings 'Earth' to the iPhone
Oct 27, 2008, 6:19 AM
Today Google announced that it is offering Google Earth for free to iPhone users through the iPhone Apps Store. The application allows users to interact with 3D ...   read

Latest Casio G'zOne Phone Is Like a Rock
Nov 19, 2009, 8:36 AM
Today Verizon Wireless and Casio announced the G'zOne Rock, a mil-spec rugged clamshell that can withstand water, shock, dust, vibration, humidity, salt fog, solar radiation, altitude, and high and ...   read

New Charger Harvests Energy from Wi-Fi Signals
Jan 12, 2010, 1:37 PM
RCA recently showcased a new charging product called the Airnergy Charger that collects Wi-Fi signals, converts them to electricity, and uses that electricity to power a small internal battery. ...   read

Apple Recalls iPhone Power Adapter
Sep 20, 2008, 8:51 AM
Apple has issued a recall for the compact USB power adapter that comes with the 3G iPhone. Apple has determined that under certain conditions the USB power adapter's metal ...   read

Water to Power Samsung Phones By 2010
Apr 21, 2008, 10:55 AM
Samsung engineers have created a new process that will allow ordinary tap water to provide the electrical power for mobile phones. Water stored in the phone will contact a ...   read

Samsung Divides Display For Lower Power Use
Jun 29, 2005, 12:21 PM
Samsung has announced a new section type LCD display that should begin appearing in phones as early as this fall. The display is a single 1.15 inch unit, most ...   read

CSR Packages Multiple Radios Onto Single Bluetooth Chip
Jun 3, 2008, 8:38 AM
CSR's new BlueCore7 chip integrates Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, Bluetooth low energy, eGPS, and FM transmit/receive onto a single chip. By combining all these radios onto a single piece of silicon, ...   read

Fuel Cells Could Double Phone Battery Life by 2010
Jan 16, 2008, 2:58 PM
Angstrom Power recently completed trials of a fuel cell system that effectively doubled talk time and the overall battery life in mobile phones. The trial involved a Motorola SLVR ...   read