Take a look at these ten methods of portable solar power with solar energy:
1. portable solar power Cell Phones
We’ve seen a number of cell phones over the years that have been designed to harness the power of the sun to stay charged. Many of these remained concept phones that didn’t get put into actual production. However, as solar technology has improved, we’ve started to see some headway made with these phones. One recent example of such a phone is the new Sharp phone which is currently on sale in Japan. portable solar power  This phone has a built-in solar panel that charges the phone. One minute of charging time in the sun allows you to get in six minutes of talk time or six hours of standby time. Left in the sun long enough, the phone can recharge up to eighty percent of its total capacity. This certainly isn’t ideal but it provides a nice secondary charging option to add to the standard option of charging a phone by plugging it into a wall charger. The phone has features like GPS and mobile TV so it’s a decent phone. We’re likely to see more advanced phones incorporating solar panels into their design in the future.
2. portable solar power  Cell Phone Sleeves
One of the biggest complaints when it comes to cell phone batteries is that smartphone batteries are inefficient. The battery is clunky and it gets drained quickly if you use all of the great multimedia features offered by the phone. Smartphone users may be in luck with the recent announcement about a new kind of cell phone sleeve that uses solar energy specifically to power smartphones. The sleeve, called Powcell, uses solar cells to generate power. The sleeve powers itself using the sun. A large solar panel is built into the sleeve. It’s designed to be as efficient as possible and can work even in some ambient light (not just in direct sunlight). Users of both BlackBerry and iPhone smartphones simply need to slide their phones into the sleeve. The phone will immediately become ready for use; you don’t have to wait for a long time for it to recharge because the power will be in the fully-charged sleeve.