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Nokia unveils bicycle-powered phone charger

03.06.10

The kit comes with two unpretentious brackets, in addition to the charger and generator. One group attaches to the bicycle's handlebars to secure the charger and a chamber phone holder. The other secures the small electrifying generator to the bike's fork.

The world's largest maker of cubicle phones said in a statement that its new product will afford "free and environmentally friendly electricity for movable phones" and will likely be welcomed in areas of the great where bicycles are a transportation staple.

Priced at about $18, the charging kit is set to be elbow from Nokia online and Nokia phone retailers by year's end.

While its certainly newsworthy that Nokia is contribution a bicycle charger, it follows others. In 2007, Motorola demonstrated a bike-powered charger at the Consumer Electronics Show . In September, Dahon unveiled the $99 Biologic FreeCharge for charging flat electronic gadgets by connecting to any existing dynamo hub on a bike.

Nokia's communiqu came in conjunction with the release of the Nokia C2, a apartment phone capable of holding and operating two SIM cards at once to cede to for separate phone numbers to be used from one figure simultaneously. The dual-SIM C2 allows the user to not only change between SIM cards, but even swap one SIM card for another, while the phone is on and working.