Safaricom Ltd., Kenya’s biggest mobile-phone company, released what it describes as the world’s first solar-powered mobile phone, Chief Executive Officer Michael Joseph said.
Manufactured under a partnership agreement with ZTE Corporation, a Chinese telecommunications company, the handset is made from recycled materials and has a built-in solar panel that charges the phone using the sun’s rays, Joseph told reporters in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, today.
“Our subscribers will now not have to take their phones to merchants for charging and wait all day for their handsets to charge in order to make calls,” Joseph said.
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Source(s): Bloomberg News
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