Kyocera to show a solar charging smartphone prototype at MWC 2015

Kyocera solar charging smartphone

Kyocera has announced to show a working prototype smartphone with solar charging capability at the Mobile World Congress 2015 next week. This prototype is basically last year’s TORQUE smartphone.

The TORQUE KC-701 smartphone prototype is rugged and design reflects the original TORQUE SKT01 model. Kyocera has used a French company SunPartner Technologies’ Wysips Crystal panel to enable solar charging on the phone. The Wysips Crystal panel combines the optical and photovoltaic technologies into one slim layer to be a part of the entire display panel.