Nokia announces affordable bike cell phone charger

 

Nokia Bike charger

Great news, Nokia announced the Bicycle Charger Kit! This is a gadget which captures free and eco-friendly energy from bicycling to power your Nokia mobile on the move.  The device will cost around 15euro and for a 10 minute bike ride at 6mph (10kph) will produce enough power for 28 minutes of talk time or 37 hours of standby. Not bad.

The kit is aimed at developing countries and places where electricity is hard to find, but that does not mean that countries like The Netherlands will not go for it :P .  In fact for people living here this will be a must have. [Cycling in the Netherlands]

In my case for example, I use Nimbuzz all day to be available to all my friends and sometimes I forget to charge my mobile  during the night. This means that in the morning my battery might be empty and I don’t have time to charge it before I go to work but since I bike every day to the Nimbuzz office the Nokia Bicycle Charger Kit could help me a lot.  I’m really looking forward to get my hands on it.

What do you think? Would you use a device like this? Do people use to bike in your country?

You can read more about this on Engadget or Crunchgear

Andrei Piftor (Andi) on June 4th, 2010 in News

10 Responses to “Nokia announces affordable bike cell phone charger”

  1. Very good news. Would this be available in Asia (specifically in the Philippines)? Thanks

    Karen San Miguel June 4th, 2010

  2. a best product

    kp parajuli June 4th, 2010

  3. An product of creative idea, based on its use! I also find that everything metioned here has something to do with Nimbuzz! HAH…

    goair June 5th, 2010

  4. Awesome news Andi, bike powered mobile battery is cool. Def useful in San Diego too. Thanks!

    Bessy June 6th, 2010

  5. Hi

    I can not use Nimbuzz on my Nokia 6300 , I can connect to the internet by using other application but when try to connect Nimbuzz always say “connection failed”
    I have insalled lastest version of Nimbuzz 1.7

    Please help me..
    Thank you

    Sogand June 6th, 2010

  6. @Sogand
    Could you please inform in which country are you located?

    Which type of connection you use? And which provider you have?

    Please let us know and we will come back to you.

    Regards.

    queralt escrich June 7th, 2010

  7. problem was from my connection, i’m from iran and my provider is IRANCELL. Now i use “mtnirancell” access point and can connect nimbuzz as well
    thank you very much…

    Sogand June 7th, 2010

  8. I appreciate nokia but it will be expensive for people living in a developing country

    Fibin Faizal June 16th, 2010

  9. I want to know if i can also make free calls on nimbuzz using my phone Nokia 6151.

    Idriss August 21st, 2010

  10. @Idriss
    Your device is using a Java version of Nimbuzz which does not support the calling feature.
    Regards

    queralt escrich August 24th, 2010


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