Kyocera

Those of you with very good memories might remember Kyocera showing off a solar-powered phone display at last year's Mobile World Congress. The company has returned in 2016 with a much-improved prototype, and says that this type of technology could start appearing in consumer phones very soon.

Kyocera has a new Android phone designed to stand up to the elements, this time including a dive in the ocean.

Construction has been completed on two enormous floating solar power plants located in the Nishihira Pond and Higashihira Pond in Kato City, Japan. The combined output of the solar plants will be around 3,300 megawatt hours (MWh) per year, and provide electricity to an estimated 920 households.

Kyocera likes to position itself as a maker of smartphones that can go anywhere, with ruggedized, waterproof devices. Building on that reputation, the company is showing a new prototype that can also charge anywhere, so long as it's not too dark or cloudy.

Gizmag has been putting the rugged Kyocera Brigadier through the gauntlet for some weeks now and has this report on how the military grade Android phone performed.

Kyocera Corporation has combined a piezoelectric actuator with a special resin film to produce Smart Sonic Sound – a piezo film speaker that is thinner and lighter than conventional speakers yet boasts similar audio levels.

Kyocera's Smart Sound Receiver helps us hear phone calls in noisy environments through the use of a vibrating screen.

Now available though Sprint is the Kyocera Echo smartphone that features two 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen displays connected by a pivot hinge that allows the displays to be folded out to form a 800 x 960 pixel 4.7-inch display.

To offer the maximum screen real estate while retaining the compact size of a smartphone, Kyocera has come up with a dual touchscreen smartphone that offers multitasking capabilities called the Echo.

The University of California in San Diego (UCSD) is undertaking an unusual solar forestry project on the roof of two of its parking garages.

September 14, 2007 Although the use of solar energy has is seen as viable for the operation of stand-alone devices such as phone-chargers and even a computer

January 6, 2006 Kyocera Wireless unveiled its new Strobe wireless handset at the Consumer Electronics Show today. The Strobe features a curved candy-bar design