Motorola PVOT Concept Phone

Remember the $100 Laptop concept, where as an alternative to charging the battery from AC-power, the hinge actually contains a hand-crank to load up the battery with some juice while in the field? Well, motorola has just the thing for mobile phones: the PVOT concept phone. Techblog has the skinny:

Designed for developing nations, the Motorola PVOT is a hand crank, rechargeable AA battery powered phone. You get one minute of use for every 25 cranks. Other features include a 125 x 125 Dot Matrix LCD and an “Eraser Shield” keypad. No word yet on if this concept will go into production.

Cellphone9 says it’s a DMB CNCEPT, but hey, there’s a market for self-charging mobiles. Okay, there are concept solar-cell paneled mobile batteries, but this one’s more robust (you can’t charge a solar-cell under the moon!), in my opinion. And the use of AA also helps–I used to own an AA-powered Motorola (back in the heyday of analog phones), and it was cool that I didn’t fear losing juice in the middle of nowhere as long as I had AA cells to replace the rechargeable pack with.

May 14th, 2006 Posted by J. Angelo Racoma in Motorola at 5:20 pm Comment Now! »
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