Posted by: Prem Kumar
on Jul 28, 2010
Vodafone Essar Ltd. unveiled a solar-powered mobile phone Tuesday that it hopes will appeal to India's rural masses who lack electricity.
India has been adding close to 20 million mobile subscribers each month, but many are in rural areas where electricity supply can be patchy at best. A third of Indians don't have access to electric power, but they do get plenty of sun.Samsung, which launched a solar-powered handset about a year ago, and now Vodafone are trying to bridge the infrastructure gap.
