Hydrogen phone?

[tamia]

Heard about this one? What kind of phone is this? What makes it different from an ordinary phone? What features does this phone have?

[canor]

Actually Tamia, the concept of this phone was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month.

This phone is powered not by the standard lithium-ion battery wedged inside just about every phone or MP3 player sold today, but by a hydrogen-sipping fuel cell. Using it you can talk for twice as long as you could on a battery, not to mention fully recharge - refuel, to be more precise - in under 10 minutes flat.

The fuel cell itself is tiny. The first on earth to actually slip comfortably into a standard battery space.

In 2010, commercial products will be first launch, and it is expected that it will grow to tens and eventually hundreds of millions of units in the three to five years following.

Though the phone is not yet available, a lot of cellphone geeks are excited about this product even I myself.

[alia]

I was researching about this phone too, it sounds really interesting! Here's some info that I want to share with you.

Fuel cell maker Angstrom Power and mobile phone maker Motorola have teamed up to create a prototype mobile phone that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell.

Hydrogen is produced by cracking water molecules with a desktop fueling station and then inserted into a metal hydride storage container on the phone and when the hydrogen molecules pass through a membrane in the fuel cell, electrons are stripped away and get diverted to run the phone.

With a hydrogen fuel cell, you never have to go to the store to get fuel feedstock. You get it out of the faucet. Basically, you can think of it as a water-powered phone.

Here is the Moto's prototype hydrogen-powered phone