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DoCoMo Will Launch Fuel-Cell Mobile Phones By 2005

Posted by timothy on from the sooner-rather-than-later dept.

prostoalex writes "Japan's major telecom provider NTT DoCoMo plans to use fuel cells for its 3G phones. 'Users of cellphones with a fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container to refuel the battery', says Reuters."

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  1. For the user to? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will that fuel also be compatible with the user? For internal use that is... ;-)

  2. This is cool by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Users of cellphones with a fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container to refuel the battery.

    A propane tank with a shoulder strap and you're good to go for 10 years.

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  3. Just what I need. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Methane two or three inches away from my nose. Another brilliant idea from DoCoMo.

  4. So now we can look forward to by blamanj · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...people holding up their cell phones at rock concerts?

  5. 10 years by spydir31 · · Score: 5, Funny

    which is probably what you would go in for, too :)

  6. hmm by inertia187 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container...

    "Hey buddy, can I bum a charge?"

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  7. What would Jesus drive? Probably an Econoline. by MsGeek · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, most carpenters and handymen I know of are too poor for that, and certainly the Carpenter of Nazareth would be similarly tapped out. Most have aging light trucks or panel vans. What would Jesus drive? Probably something like this. (No, I don't think Mike Watt is God, but I think they jam together on occasion.)

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  8. Won't it suck when... by theantipode · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... your phone doesn't pass emissions tests?

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  9. "Hello, 911????!!!!..." by psyconaut · · Score: 3, Funny

    ....I'd like to report a fire...yes, it's my cellphone....please come quick.... *HAND BURNING*....quick, I said!!!!!.... *DIALTONE* ;-)

    -psy