Apple wants to turn the screen of the iPhone and iPad in a solar cell

States Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Apple patent for technology integration of solar panels in the screens of mobile devices - smartphones, tablets, and portable players. The paper's engineers say that the physical size of the LCD display continues to grow, the amount of their energy consumption, so this development is to solve the problem of the relatively rapid discharge of mobile devices.

A patent application for the technology Apple was filed in September 2008. As planned by the company, the solar panels are added to the screen is not a separate layer, and integrated directly into the design of the display. The solar panel is both a module to collect the energy and optical sensor. Because this component uses electrodes with the same "coating" as traditional solar panel, touch screen gets "more quadrants or pixels" for touch panels. Accordingly, this type of touch screen is sensitive traditional.

Screen works as follows, when the optical sensor detects the presence of objects near the touch screen, for example, the user's fingers, capacitive mode is activated. If the objects in the immediate vicinity of the display not include optical mode, where collection of solar energy.

 

In addition, there's a supposed block "traffic control", enforced in hardware or software package. This unit distributes the collected energy and makes the choice on what's used for solar energy, it are often sent either on to the operation of the device, or fed to the battery for charging.

At the physical level, capacitive and optical panel can be physically separated into different modules, but at the level of function they combine multiplex block, so that they are managed as a whole.

Vodafone UK announced pricing details of its Windows Phone 8 phones

In yesterday online on to outgoing British operator Vodafone upcoming Nokia and HTC all Windows Phone 8 mobile phones, now the company has also announced specific pricing of these phones. The Vodafone move will vigorously launched Windows Phone in the development of the UK, the UK's major mobile operators are now more or less in sales of Windows Phone handsets.

Vodafone's Windows Phone 8 mobile phone pricing is as follows:

Lumia 920 - Nokia Windows Phone 8 flagship phone, signed a two-year contract can be obtained, without any prepayment fee. It bundled and the Vodafone Red Data program, the minimum monthly consumption of 42 pounds, includes unlimited call duration, the unlimited short interest and 2Gb flow (black and yellow optional)

Lumia 820 - Nokia's Windows Phone 8, in the end, the phone and Lumia 920 similar bundled Vodafone Red Data plans long but include unlimited calls, unlimited SMS and 1G data flow, the minimum monthly consumption 33 pounds (black, red and white optional)

Lumia 620 - Nokia's low-end Windows Phone 8 mobile phones, signed a two-year contract can be obtained, without any prepayment fee. The minimum monthly consumption of 21 pounds. It includes 300 minutes of talk time, unlimited text messages and 250M flow (blue and white optional)

8X - HTC's Windows Phone flagship machine, same and Vodafone Red Data packages tied up, to purchase of the two-year contract, the monthly minimum charge of £ 33 unlimited talk time, unlimited text messages and 1G traffic (selectable California Blue and black)

8S - contracted for 2 years, minimum monthly consumption of 21 pounds, including 300 minutes of talk time, unlimited text messages and 250M flow (Atlantic Blue)

Original from: WPCentral

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