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Originally Posted by scarlettcontent
I remember solar powered calculators back in the early 80s, why has it took 30 years to come up with this?
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Solar calculators don't have dual core gigahertz processors and large full color displays, nor do they transit high speed data to towers miles away. Therefore, a smart phone uses roughly one thousand times as much power as a calculator. New solar cell technology is only now starting to get close to providing anything like enough power to help charge a smartphone battery without requiring a ten pound solar array.