The phone also runs on conventional battery power. The solar cell provides 15 minutes of talk time with an hour's exposure to the sun, according to the company. The Coral-200-Solar has a classic cell phone design with one solar cell sticking out like a sore thumb from the back. ZTE announced what it calls the world's first 'solar-powered cell phone' at MWC. The company didn't provide details about support for mobile broadband connections, but the phone is not built for fast Internet access. This phone will work effectively on GSM bands across all continents. For storage, it includes a MicroSD slot with up to 2GB of storage. The slender W181 has a 240-by-320-pixel color display and built-in FM radio (headphones are optional), and it weighs 80 grams and measures 110 by 45 by 15 mm. The phone also offers menus in seven African languages. Motorola is quickly adapting to the fact that pure Hindi is becoming extinct as poorly written Bollywood movies hit theaters in Indian cities. That could find an audience in urban India, where the young and hip love to mix Hindi with English. A mobile messaging service called 'Hinglish predictive text' can write 'combined Hindi and English text messages,' according to Motorola. Motorola at MWC showed its W181, which has been updated with features that make it an interesting phone for developing countries. Pricing and availability were not available. It has a MicroSD slot, weighs 77 grams and measures 99.9-by-48-by-13.9 millimeters. It includes a 2.1-inch display, a 2-megapixel camera and an FM radio. The company could not immediately provide pricing or availability information, but Cell GSM Phones tags the price at $580.įor a more vanilla phone, Samsung also launched the S3310 phone for GSM and EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) networks. The phone includes a 5-megapixel camera, FM radio and Bluetooth. An accelerometer allows the screen to rotate with phone movement. The thin cell-phone is equipped with an AMOLED (active-matrix OLED) screen, which displays vivid images while consuming less power than conventional TFT-LCD screens. Samsung may have topped Nokia at MWC with the quad-band Ultra S7220.

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