The News - An Indian mobile phone company has launched a low-cost handset that uses commonly available AAA sized batteries aimed at the rural corners of India and other parts of the world where power supply is not very stable.
The Good - It is an innovation aimed at the lower end of the pyramid and it will help bring improve the mobile phone penetration of rural areas, which is welcome.
The Challenge - The phone runs only for 1 hour non-stop on the AAA battery though it runs 3 hours non-stop on a rechargeable lithium battery. So definitely scope for improvement on that front.
Read more at - http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/techolic/post.htm?id=63017641&scid=hm_bl
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