Nokia to look to the sky and bring solar charging to Windows Phones?

Nokia has hit smartphone innovation caput on with wireless charging, PureView camera technology and more, merely the company doesn't appear to wish to halt with what'south already on offer. Co-ordinate to a report over on MonWindowsPhone, Nokia is believed to exist looking to work with SunPartner Group on its What You lot See Is Photovoltaic Surface (Wysips) production and add solar charging to smartphones afterwards this year.

Prototypes are rumoured to be making an appearance at this coming Mobile World Congress. Now, before we caput into this rumour, do have the salt shaker at paw.

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Wysips has a goal to implement solar applied science into a wide variety of appliances, including LCD screens and smartphones. Our interest is peeked, as is a mobile device manufacturer. Nokia? Mayhap, but without further information nosotros can't call names just however. Just first, what's this technology all most and what has it got to do with Windows Phones?

The Wysips solar picture show which would be practical to smartphones is non entirely transparent, only appears then to the user past lenticular printing (AKA magic), an optical technology that reveals dissimilar images depending on the viewer'southward position. It's often used to create 3D effects and animations. The Wysips product consists of two layers mounted onto the smartphone screen:

A movie of photovoltaic strips
A thin flexible lenticular moving picture, by which the user sees the screen or image from 1 angle, and the PV layer from another angle.

It'south not such a farfetched idea as Wysips is already working on such applied science, which will encounter smartphones recharge through enough exposure to the Dominicus'due south rays. Only who could exist looking at implementing this into hardware? Nokia would be a superb bet, if we do say so ourselves. With wireless charging already established and included in mid-loftier level Windows Phones, we could ever see solar charging also.

MonWindowsPhone managed to get give-and-take that Wysips has signed a deal with a smartphone manufacturer, but the brand remains confidential. It'south still some fourth dimension before nosotros encounter such features included on mobile hardware, but could Windows Phone be the beginning platform to support it? If we were Microsoft or Nokia and have not yet looked at Wysips, nosotros'd look at snapping up this concept quickly.

As noted higher up, we'll be expecting more details at MWC.

via: MonWindowsPhone, WattNow

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