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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.

    --
    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  3. So now we can look forward to by blamanj · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. 10 years by spydir31 · · Score: 5, Funny

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