Kyocera is about to unveil the world's first solar powered smartphone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Kyocera Smartphone comes with a transparent photovoltaic layer which can either be placed beneath or on top of the touchscreen. The unique technology has been created by Sunpartner, a company that manufactures a display layer capable of power generation too. It is named as Wysips. A chip is connected to crystals and creates power from solar energy which is then stored in the battery of the device.
Wysips can deliver up to 5 milliWatt-peak/cm2 while claiming that this number would double owing to the next generation of photovoltaic materials. Wysips is only 0.1 mm thick and hence can be embedded quite easily without impacting the aesthetics of the design. The system can easily work with displays that vary from 3 to 13 inches and include phones, smartwatches and tablets.
