You seem to insist with this idea that somehow logging is totally separated and not part of the "operation" when most likely it is. You can probably design a "desktop" system where no matter what you do with the logger you can't affect the system logging (for example put it on another network, another power grid, put some kind of one-way firewall and log over UDP). But here you have very tight constraints and I'm positive that any logging is done using the same CPU, RAM, flash, power supply as what you call "operation". You can of course sandbox to some extent some of the operations if you have enough resources but I somehow doubt this is the case.
He didn't say "stack scanner", he said "have access to a $$$$$ automated scanner" so probably we're not talking about your regular $300 Scansnap but about something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOQuuLYavY
At this point boycott won't work. They'll claim even higher loses because of piracy and ask for more taxes. There are already countries where CDs, CD-R/W units, fax machines, etc are taxed because hey, you can use them to copy stuff. They'll tax flash cards, hard drives, CPUs. And if it still doesn't help they'll just help themselves with the state money. Heck, they are right now suing the Irish government for basically their losses: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/12/0141219/music-industry-sues-irish-government-for-piracy No, boycotting won't help at this point (at least if we don't go to extreme "boycotts" like killing ourselves or moving to Cuba).
... and there are a couple videos with it already where it runs some kind of (rather unresponsive) android. I hope it's easy/possible to make it run whatever x86 OS you please.
In fact is even worse than importing thousands of keys to FF, this used to work "just fine" with the oldish firefox (6 months?). Now it's MUCH worse, sometimes the certificates get regenerated (I'm not sure if it's when you reconfig the box or when you lose power or if it's only limited to really old hardware). I don't have the box in front of me but it's a known issue. Anyway what happens is that you can't "add exception", "get certificate", etc. The workaround is just to remove all certificates AND then add the certificate that changed! And of course all the others once you start using them. At least Chrome and IE just complain "not safe" "get me out of here" and other visual signs but in the end they work without any intrusive "under the hood" intervention.
In the end poorly managed https is no worse than http and last I checked this was still (relatively) working in FF. The only danger is that people might assume it's https(=SAFE) when it isn't really as safe as well managed https. Just give clear feedback about it and get the heck out of the way.
Also there should be a non DRMed copy left in escrow with some state organization if they plan to distribute the work in any digital form and they want any copyright protection to it. Today "they" can remove your book from your "shelf" (ebook reader) remotely, they can limit where you read it, kill your "first sale" rights (you can't resell or loan a kindle book), they can make books "expire" from your reader. Most current incarnations of DRM are today broken and this is why everybody focuses on laws and lawsuits but tomorrow DRM might work "well enough" to prevent you from accessing even stuff without copyright.
I was about to say that UK is one of the countries where 3G access (assuming no Olympics/megaoverload as you did) is really dirt cheap (at least compared to, well, everything else you can buy in London) but now I see, you are "one of those". Guess what, the providers are selling locked phones BECAUSE PEOPLE BUY THEM. There is another obvious alternative: JUST BUY A FREAKING UNLOCKED PHONE. UK also doesn't ask the SIMs to be tied to IDs or sold only to residents or any other nonsense; and many of them don't expire for a long time (and to extend them you just need to send one SMS which you can do from abroad). And you can recharge them from anywhere (via paypal for example) CHEAPER than "in person" (you pay less than 10 pounds to get 10 pounds of credit for example). Everything is perfect already, except that you let yourself locked by a provider, possibly halfway across the world. Who can also decide to disable your voip apps as well at any time by the way.
It won't happen unless some kind of Mad Max crisis comes along. As of now multiple countries are giving up nuclear power PLANTS and TSA molesters are checking people boarding BUSES and you think they'll let anyone have a cheap portable nuclear reactor capable of 100 mph+ ? Now that we're dreaming I remember I wanted my flying car too (probably a transporter would work just as well). And a holodeck, yes, that would help!
First of all at least please read the link you provided: "iSuppli also said the flooding may have affected operations of Nidec Corporation, a Japanese company that supplies more than 70 per cent of the motors in global hard drives."
Then, even if the numbers you quote are right I don't see any indication for "cartel pricing" or "gouging" or anything else. The fact is PAYING CUSTOMERS don't think the prices are high enough and they literally just don't stop buying. If you try to sell a now a drive at the "normal" price or even twice that it will just sell out and literally there aren't enough drives in the world to keep the drives on the shelves at prices before "crisis". There is no arbitrary limit at which prices would stop. Even a difference of 1% between supply and demand can increase prices 10 (or 100) times if the customer just don't STOP BUYING.
Of course it's one of the countries in which is legal to share music, as it's legal to share in ALL countries. The problem comes when you start to qualify the statement: "depending on the license", "without compensation", "for free", etc. Are you saying that you're allowed to share (obviously without compensation or any previous agreement) the latest Metallica album: a. on your web site? b. in your shop (street corner, class, company, etc)? Even assuming you're using "taxed" CDs?
... and just print some money and hand it to these bozos to leave us alone? I mean we can't pretend anymore that there's any fairness at all. Copyright was some kind of a deal in which both parties contributed with something: "the people" agreed to let "the authors" have some kind of unnatural monopoly over how some specific information is distributed with the understanding that they'll get back after a while some more interesting information in return. Free for share and for recycling in any way we see fit. Already life of the author plus 50 years or whatever is whatever relevant jurisdiction is ridiculously high and defeats the spirit of copyright. Heck, there's freakin' JULES VERNE still under copyright (and really hard to find if you are on the wrong continent). Life + 70 years is just a spit in the face. It should be like patents, about 20 years, with the need for explicit extensions. And a DRM-free copy of the original should be provided in escrow to some state organization which should make sure at the date when the copyright expires the DRM-free copy is available for everyone. Or you chose your poison: copyright will not protect you if the copy you distribute has DRM. Either it's mine to do whatever I am legally allowed to do OR you don't come crying that you want to sue a printer in some campus for "distributing copyrighted work".
If I'm not mistaken Canada is also one of the countries where if you want to back-up your pictures (for example) to CD it's presumed that you infringe copyright and you have to pay some fee no matter what, isn't it? I think this goes back to my original argument that there's no rhyme or reason to the laws, just get what you can for whatever pretext.
Because not that much software in general runs on Apple OSes? Windows mobile 2003 is probably worse than Windows 95 security-wise (pocket internet explorer, nu security updates, etc) but nobody bothers to write malware for it. And is as "unlocked" as DOS or windows 95 ever were.
No such thing available for my device (of course the part that goes INSIDE the phone is the interesting one); one guy did some VERY VERY VERY nasty hardware mod: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319473 Nasty in the sense that I wouldn't do it to my phone, the mod itself is really cool.
Well, smartphones in this range get 4-5+ hours of video play, isn't it? I guess you could easily strech the (standard) battery to 2-3 weeks if you manage to limit yourself to 20 min of notepad/one sms (and the needed boot and shutdown). If not one (or more) extra batteries would've been lighter (and possibly cheaper) than most arrangements of the Power Monkey+solar panel type.
However with a little tweak this IS after the best scenario for solar power. Just leave the charger there! It'll recharge many, many phones, it'll power maybe directly a small radio. Or somebody might just get up a bigger (like 50+W) solar panel (maybe foldable if it's too complicated, or only the cells and glue them to a roof or something). And then you can charge directly more than 10 phones at a time. It's not that solar wouldn't work in the long run for small devices, it's just the break-even point in terms of size/weight/price is usually at weeks rather than hours.
Really, what is with this idea of leaving a small(ish) solar panel in the car to charge either the phone or a very small buffer battery? The car already has a huge battery and you can use it to charge the phone countless times. Yes, it's finite but compared to what a small solar panel can get you from inside a car (being behind glass, in the shade a good part of the day and almost always not in the optimal position) it might as well be infinite. A modern car will certainly use up more juice than a phone for its own standby (plus locking/unlocking/automatically turning on lights and stuff when you unlock/lock, etc).
Worst is when you have one of the splashproof/waterproof/etc/ phones and you need to fiddle with the small seals/tabs that cover the ports. When you transfer something, when you charge at home, when you use it as navigation unit in the car. Inductive charging would be a godsend.
Would you rather have that solar panel, and be able to make send a text/make a short phone call to emergency services after a 30 minute stint in the sun? Or would you rather save $5 on the cost of the phone?
You're making a logical error called false dichotomy, look it up. There are other choices beside having a dead phone and a dead phone plus solar panel (albeit included solar panel). For example you can have an extra battery, that would give you hours of talk (which you would get after weeks in the sun, if the suns come from behind the clouds at all). Ok, you might think you aren't forced to carry extra battery with you but you would be forced to carry the solar panel if it's built in the phone (so the panel might have somehow an advantage). Then how about a battery 20% larger and a phone that turns itself off when you have only 20% battery left? Size and money-wise would be about the same as the solar panel option but certainly much better understood and easily to implement. Then you'll get in any case at least one hour of talk (which you would get otherwise after maybe one day of solar charging). And you don't have to wait for the next morning (or next season) to make you EMERGENCY call. Yes, "there are lots of situations where having a solar panel on the back of the phone would be pretty handy" but there are other (similarly priced/sized) things to be included which are even handiER.
If it is USB power plug sure it'll charge it. There is only one caveat with many modern phones: you need a small resistor (basically a short) between the data pins if you need to draw more power from a dumb charger that can't negotiate otherwise what can offer you. This is it, just short out the data pins (if they are cabled at all) on your charger (assuming it can deliver 600-700-800 or maybe even more mA. This is, again, part of USB standard.
Before this, yes, Nokia had some peculiarities (although fine in the end providing you learn them...): a. phones (even reasonably smart for the time, with GPS, wifi, mail, browser, youtube capable, microsdhc, etc) with standard microUSB that would not charge over it (that was pretty strange and dumb). b. the standard "round" connector would accept a very wide range of voltages BUT you need to limit the current to something under 1A. This means you just can't connect some "normal" reasonably powerful power supply of the appropiate voltage and have it working. It would actually detect it and say "not charging". It also means that "straight" charging from many USBs would work, until you try to use one that gives you higher current (either by chance or advertised feature for some laptops or motherboards) and then it would not work. This is documented (look for "Nokia 2-mm DC Charging Interface Specification") and the easy solution is to put a small resistor in series with your power supply but still a PITA (and yes, I did have to reverse engineer it myself and found the documentation just years after...).
It doesn't work so well, even in theory. 82g (only for the solar panel) and 65 pounds (GBP) would cover multiple spare batteries. And even one battery would bring you more energy than chasing the sun every day for multiple hours the whole week. Maybe in theory you might "get even" both in terms of weight and price if you have some kind of "base" where you can leave things to charge all day long AND if you are on some multiple weeks expedition without access to any other type of power (from villages, cars, etc). But in most cases no way. Note that all the commercial "solar" thingies come with some internal battery that needs itself to be charged (and you have a non-solar way to charge it). These small solar panels wouldn't even start charging a smart(ish) modern phone by themselves as those phones are drawing 500-800 mA and they usually can provide 100-200mA.
Are you sure they are "sound powered"? The old carbon microphones don't need AMPLIFICATION but they still need POWER because they work by changing their resistance. Standard dynamic microphones do create electricity but I doubt it'll get very far before being drown into noise, especially if you wanted to be eventually usable on a ship.
Your electricity meter itself isn't that accurate either, for a device that can measure multiple kW (even for the smallest apartment) fractions of W are only noise. 0.5W is exaggerated, Nokia specs are (including some very old chargers and these are max values, probably real values are tens of percent lower):
Nokia Charger AC-3 150 mW
Nokia Travel Charger AC-4 300 mW
Nokia Compact Travel Charger AC-5 300 mW
Nokia Fast Charger AC-8 30 mW
And last but not least: what are you doing keeping your charger plugged 24/7 for years if you care about 50 cents of electricity PER YEAR? Anyway chances are you have devices with much larger standby consumption and you'll be better off disconnecting them either directly or via some extension cord with a switch. You'll also reduce the risk of fires and the risk of damaging something because of some incident on the mains power.
Having to wait all night then some big part of the next day (IF it's sunny) doesn't sound such a good plan for a "rescue situation". Now if 90% of the phones would have solar panels on them (while being about the same size/weight as non-solar-panel phones) I would get probably a phone with solar panel "just in case". But if you're planning in advance and there aren't a lot of "solar phones", if any, just get a second battery. It works with your phone and even the cheapest $1-$5 battery on ebay will provide more energy than one week of solar charging. In fact this is when I decided against small portable solar panels: when I realized that even using them every day for weeks would provide less energy than a similarly sized battery.
Would you care to edit the relevant parts from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_lock ? They list only Israel and Singapore as countries banning simlocked phones; I'm sure somebody will add Chile but probably won't think/won't find the relevant "citation needed" to add Estonia as well.
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You seem to insist with this idea that somehow logging is totally separated and not part of the "operation" when most likely it is. You can probably design a "desktop" system where no matter what you do with the logger you can't affect the system logging (for example put it on another network, another power grid, put some kind of one-way firewall and log over UDP). But here you have very tight constraints and I'm positive that any logging is done using the same CPU, RAM, flash, power supply as what you call "operation". You can of course sandbox to some extent some of the operations if you have enough resources but I somehow doubt this is the case.
He didn't say "stack scanner", he said "have access to a $$$$$ automated scanner" so probably we're not talking about your regular $300 Scansnap but about something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOQuuLYavY
Yea, and nobody needs more than 640k of RAM...
At this point boycott won't work. They'll claim even higher loses because of piracy and ask for more taxes. There are already countries where CDs, CD-R/W units, fax machines, etc are taxed because hey, you can use them to copy stuff. They'll tax flash cards, hard drives, CPUs. And if it still doesn't help they'll just help themselves with the state money.
Heck, they are right now suing the Irish government for basically their losses: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/12/0141219/music-industry-sues-irish-government-for-piracy
No, boycotting won't help at this point (at least if we don't go to extreme "boycotts" like killing ourselves or moving to Cuba).
... and there are a couple videos with it already where it runs some kind of (rather unresponsive) android.
I hope it's easy/possible to make it run whatever x86 OS you please.
In fact is even worse than importing thousands of keys to FF, this used to work "just fine" with the oldish firefox (6 months?). Now it's MUCH worse, sometimes the certificates get regenerated (I'm not sure if it's when you reconfig the box or when you lose power or if it's only limited to really old hardware). I don't have the box in front of me but it's a known issue.
Anyway what happens is that you can't "add exception", "get certificate", etc. The workaround is just to remove all certificates AND then add the certificate that changed! And of course all the others once you start using them.
At least Chrome and IE just complain "not safe" "get me out of here" and other visual signs but in the end they work without any intrusive "under the hood" intervention.
In the end poorly managed https is no worse than http and last I checked this was still (relatively) working in FF. The only danger is that people might assume it's https(=SAFE) when it isn't really as safe as well managed https. Just give clear feedback about it and get the heck out of the way.
If this "protective device" becomes popular can we take bets how long it'll take a poor soul to crack the display from a "couch drop"?
Also there should be a non DRMed copy left in escrow with some state organization if they plan to distribute the work in any digital form and they want any copyright protection to it. Today "they" can remove your book from your "shelf" (ebook reader) remotely, they can limit where you read it, kill your "first sale" rights (you can't resell or loan a kindle book), they can make books "expire" from your reader. Most current incarnations of DRM are today broken and this is why everybody focuses on laws and lawsuits but tomorrow DRM might work "well enough" to prevent you from accessing even stuff without copyright.
I was about to say that UK is one of the countries where 3G access (assuming no Olympics/megaoverload as you did) is really dirt cheap (at least compared to, well, everything else you can buy in London) but now I see, you are "one of those". Guess what, the providers are selling locked phones BECAUSE PEOPLE BUY THEM. There is another obvious alternative: JUST BUY A FREAKING UNLOCKED PHONE.
UK also doesn't ask the SIMs to be tied to IDs or sold only to residents or any other nonsense; and many of them don't expire for a long time (and to extend them you just need to send one SMS which you can do from abroad). And you can recharge them from anywhere (via paypal for example) CHEAPER than "in person" (you pay less than 10 pounds to get 10 pounds of credit for example).
Everything is perfect already, except that you let yourself locked by a provider, possibly halfway across the world. Who can also decide to disable your voip apps as well at any time by the way.
It won't happen unless some kind of Mad Max crisis comes along.
As of now multiple countries are giving up nuclear power PLANTS and TSA molesters are checking people boarding BUSES and you think they'll let anyone have a cheap portable nuclear reactor capable of 100 mph+ ?
Now that we're dreaming I remember I wanted my flying car too (probably a transporter would work just as well). And a holodeck, yes, that would help!
First of all at least please read the link you provided: "iSuppli also said the flooding may have affected operations of Nidec Corporation, a Japanese company that supplies more than 70 per cent of the motors in global hard drives."
Then, even if the numbers you quote are right I don't see any indication for "cartel pricing" or "gouging" or anything else. The fact is PAYING CUSTOMERS don't think the prices are high enough and they literally just don't stop buying. If you try to sell a now a drive at the "normal" price or even twice that it will just sell out and literally there aren't enough drives in the world to keep the drives on the shelves at prices before "crisis".
There is no arbitrary limit at which prices would stop. Even a difference of 1% between supply and demand can increase prices 10 (or 100) times if the customer just don't STOP BUYING.
Of course it's one of the countries in which is legal to share music, as it's legal to share in ALL countries. The problem comes when you start to qualify the statement: "depending on the license", "without compensation", "for free", etc.
Are you saying that you're allowed to share (obviously without compensation or any previous agreement) the latest Metallica album:
a. on your web site?
b. in your shop (street corner, class, company, etc)? Even assuming you're using "taxed" CDs?
... and just print some money and hand it to these bozos to leave us alone? I mean we can't pretend anymore that there's any fairness at all. Copyright was some kind of a deal in which both parties contributed with something: "the people" agreed to let "the authors" have some kind of unnatural monopoly over how some specific information is distributed with the understanding that they'll get back after a while some more interesting information in return. Free for share and for recycling in any way we see fit.
Already life of the author plus 50 years or whatever is whatever relevant jurisdiction is ridiculously high and defeats the spirit of copyright. Heck, there's freakin' JULES VERNE still under copyright (and really hard to find if you are on the wrong continent).
Life + 70 years is just a spit in the face. It should be like patents, about 20 years, with the need for explicit extensions. And a DRM-free copy of the original should be provided in escrow to some state organization which should make sure at the date when the copyright expires the DRM-free copy is available for everyone. Or you chose your poison: copyright will not protect you if the copy you distribute has DRM. Either it's mine to do whatever I am legally allowed to do OR you don't come crying that you want to sue a printer in some campus for "distributing copyrighted work".
If I'm not mistaken Canada is also one of the countries where if you want to back-up your pictures (for example) to CD it's presumed that you infringe copyright and you have to pay some fee no matter what, isn't it? I think this goes back to my original argument that there's no rhyme or reason to the laws, just get what you can for whatever pretext.
Because not that much software in general runs on Apple OSes?
Windows mobile 2003 is probably worse than Windows 95 security-wise (pocket internet explorer, nu security updates, etc) but nobody bothers to write malware for it. And is as "unlocked" as DOS or windows 95 ever were.
No such thing available for my device (of course the part that goes INSIDE the phone is the interesting one); one guy did some VERY VERY VERY nasty hardware mod: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319473
Nasty in the sense that I wouldn't do it to my phone, the mod itself is really cool.
Well, smartphones in this range get 4-5+ hours of video play, isn't it? I guess you could easily strech the (standard) battery to 2-3 weeks if you manage to limit yourself to 20 min of notepad/one sms (and the needed boot and shutdown). If not one (or more) extra batteries would've been lighter (and possibly cheaper) than most arrangements of the Power Monkey+solar panel type.
However with a little tweak this IS after the best scenario for solar power. Just leave the charger there! It'll recharge many, many phones, it'll power maybe directly a small radio.
Or somebody might just get up a bigger (like 50+W) solar panel (maybe foldable if it's too complicated, or only the cells and glue them to a roof or something). And then you can charge directly more than 10 phones at a time.
It's not that solar wouldn't work in the long run for small devices, it's just the break-even point in terms of size/weight/price is usually at weeks rather than hours.
Really, what is with this idea of leaving a small(ish) solar panel in the car to charge either the phone or a very small buffer battery?
The car already has a huge battery and you can use it to charge the phone countless times. Yes, it's finite but compared to what a small solar panel can get you from inside a car (being behind glass, in the shade a good part of the day and almost always not in the optimal position) it might as well be infinite.
A modern car will certainly use up more juice than a phone for its own standby (plus locking/unlocking/automatically turning on lights and stuff when you unlock/lock, etc).
Worst is when you have one of the splashproof/waterproof/etc/ phones and you need to fiddle with the small seals/tabs that cover the ports. When you transfer something, when you charge at home, when you use it as navigation unit in the car.
Inductive charging would be a godsend.
You're making a logical error called false dichotomy, look it up.
There are other choices beside having a dead phone and a dead phone plus solar panel (albeit included solar panel).
For example you can have an extra battery, that would give you hours of talk (which you would get after weeks in the sun, if the suns come from behind the clouds at all).
Ok, you might think you aren't forced to carry extra battery with you but you would be forced to carry the solar panel if it's built in the phone (so the panel might have somehow an advantage). Then how about a battery 20% larger and a phone that turns itself off when you have only 20% battery left? Size and money-wise would be about the same as the solar panel option but certainly much better understood and easily to implement. Then you'll get in any case at least one hour of talk (which you would get otherwise after maybe one day of solar charging). And you don't have to wait for the next morning (or next season) to make you EMERGENCY call.
Yes, "there are lots of situations where having a solar panel on the back of the phone would be pretty handy" but there are other (similarly priced/sized) things to be included which are even handiER.
If it is USB power plug sure it'll charge it. There is only one caveat with many modern phones: you need a small resistor (basically a short) between the data pins if you need to draw more power from a dumb charger that can't negotiate otherwise what can offer you. This is it, just short out the data pins (if they are cabled at all) on your charger (assuming it can deliver 600-700-800 or maybe even more mA. This is, again, part of USB standard.
Before this, yes, Nokia had some peculiarities (although fine in the end providing you learn them...):
a. phones (even reasonably smart for the time, with GPS, wifi, mail, browser, youtube capable, microsdhc, etc) with standard microUSB that would not charge over it (that was pretty strange and dumb).
b. the standard "round" connector would accept a very wide range of voltages BUT you need to limit the current to something under 1A. This means you just can't connect some "normal" reasonably powerful power supply of the appropiate voltage and have it working. It would actually detect it and say "not charging". It also means that "straight" charging from many USBs would work, until you try to use one that gives you higher current (either by chance or advertised feature for some laptops or motherboards) and then it would not work. This is documented (look for "Nokia 2-mm DC Charging Interface Specification") and the easy solution is to put a small resistor in series with your power supply but still a PITA (and yes, I did have to reverse engineer it myself and found the documentation just years after...).
It doesn't work so well, even in theory. 82g (only for the solar panel) and 65 pounds (GBP) would cover multiple spare batteries. And even one battery would bring you more energy than chasing the sun every day for multiple hours the whole week.
Maybe in theory you might "get even" both in terms of weight and price if you have some kind of "base" where you can leave things to charge all day long AND if you are on some multiple weeks expedition without access to any other type of power (from villages, cars, etc). But in most cases no way.
Note that all the commercial "solar" thingies come with some internal battery that needs itself to be charged (and you have a non-solar way to charge it). These small solar panels wouldn't even start charging a smart(ish) modern phone by themselves as those phones are drawing 500-800 mA and they usually can provide 100-200mA.
Are you sure they are "sound powered"? The old carbon microphones don't need AMPLIFICATION but they still need POWER because they work by changing their resistance.
Standard dynamic microphones do create electricity but I doubt it'll get very far before being drown into noise, especially if you wanted to be eventually usable on a ship.
Your electricity meter itself isn't that accurate either, for a device that can measure multiple kW (even for the smallest apartment) fractions of W are only noise.
0.5W is exaggerated, Nokia specs are (including some very old chargers and these are max values, probably real values are tens of percent lower):
Nokia Charger AC-3 150 mW
Nokia Travel Charger AC-4 300 mW
Nokia Compact Travel Charger AC-5 300 mW
Nokia Fast Charger AC-8 30 mW
And last but not least: what are you doing keeping your charger plugged 24/7 for years if you care about 50 cents of electricity PER YEAR? Anyway chances are you have devices with much larger standby consumption and you'll be better off disconnecting them either directly or via some extension cord with a switch. You'll also reduce the risk of fires and the risk of damaging something because of some incident on the mains power.
Having to wait all night then some big part of the next day (IF it's sunny) doesn't sound such a good plan for a "rescue situation". Now if 90% of the phones would have solar panels on them (while being about the same size/weight as non-solar-panel phones) I would get probably a phone with solar panel "just in case". But if you're planning in advance and there aren't a lot of "solar phones", if any, just get a second battery. It works with your phone and even the cheapest $1-$5 battery on ebay will provide more energy than one week of solar charging.
In fact this is when I decided against small portable solar panels: when I realized that even using them every day for weeks would provide less energy than a similarly sized battery.
Would you care to edit the relevant parts from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_lock ?
They list only Israel and Singapore as countries banning simlocked phones; I'm sure somebody will add Chile but probably won't think/won't find the relevant "citation needed" to add Estonia as well.