LG GD510 followed with new solar technology

Following the unveiling of the LG GD510, a new product has been announced that uses the sun to make modern mobile phones more portable than ever.

One of the problems many business users often run into getting power to their handset when on long journeys and this is something a new partnership hopes to help with.

Based on technology from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne of Switzerland which has been licensed by California-based firm G24 Innovations, the product combines an all-purpose bag with a solar-powered charger.

The latter company has enlisted the help of Hong Kong-listed holdall maker Mascotte Holdings, who will put the product together using specially built panels built in Cardiff, Wales.

It is hoped the international project will result in an item that will prove popular with a range of different users and G24 chief executive John Hartnett told the South China Morning Post that this would be buoyed by developments involving an expanding range.

"In the future, our product will become smaller and it will change from being around the electronic device to on it and eventually inside it, displacing plastics, springs and coils associated with batteries," he said.

The charger can also be used for giving power to other personal electronic devices like electronic readers and personal digital assistants, but for those looking for a more integrated system one manufacturer recently announced its own move into this area.

Earlier this week, LG announced the upcoming GD510 model – which also goes by the name of the Pop – is fitted with its own solar panel that can offer up to two minutes and 15 seconds of talk time after ten minutes in the sun.