World’s first low cost solar mobile phone

Coral-200-Solar is the world’s first solar powered low cost mobile phone released by Digicel. It is manufactured by ZTE. Till now the concept was to link the solar charging devices to the mobile phones. But those were not efficient as expected. Now the solar charging device is integrated into the cell phone.

Coral-200-Solar meet the needs of power-challenged users across the globe. The idea of solar-powered handsets has been around for a long time. But it was digilent and its partners Intivation and ZTE who took it to a production level and made it a reality.The new phones will be deployed in the markets from this June.