Vodafone Essar Ltd. unveiled a eco-friendly solar-powered handset VF 247 in India. The new phone mainly serves those rural Indian villages where access to electricity is very limited. The new product offering attempts to bridge the infrastructure gap and enables more people in rural India to use the mobile phone. VF 247 solar powered phone is in keeping with Vodafone's aim to increase mobile technology accessibility for millions in India. 
With an extended solar powered battery, the solar powered phone addresses the problem of unstable electricity supply in many rural areas. VF 247 solar powered phone charges by itself, by exposure to ambient light. Sun Boost, the special inbuilt hardware and software ensures that the phone charges also in a room, under normal daylight. Vodafone VF 247 mobile phone would eliminate the need for any user to charge their phones near an electrical outlet. But the user would have an option to recharge the phone with a regular electric charger.According to Vodafone the solar phone charges itself by exposure to ambience light. The device has a special inbuilt software and hardware, Sun Boost, which ensures that the phone charges in normal daylight conditions, even in a room. Direct exposure to sunlight is not required. Vodafone VF 247 needs eight hours of direct sunlight for full recharging. Once the phone is completely charged, it offers 4 hours of talk time with standby time of about 200 hours.
Vodafone's rural network coverage of 65% is the second highest in India. It also has the second largest rural subscriber base in the country. The VF 247 solar powered phone comes with essential mobile phone features such as FM radio, color screen and a powerful torch light and will be commercially available shortly. It will be available by next month at about Rs. 1,500 in the Indian market. Samsung also introduced a solar phone last year, Samsung's Solar Guru 1107.
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