To keep your important devices powered up, solar panel phone chargers are essential gear nowadays for hikers and campers. These gadgets help ensure that you have access to maps, emergency contacts ...

Whether you often camp off the grid, go backpacking, or grapple with power outages, a solar charger is a nifty gadget to have ...

The downside is that even the best solar cells you can buy capture only about a quarter of the energy reaching us. In ...

Portable chargers are a necessity for how often we use our phones these days. Those need to be charged too, though, and vary wildly in how long they last. The solution? Solar power. SEE ALSO ...

Safaricom Ltd., launched the nation's first solar-charged phone this month. The handset comes with a regular electrical charger and a solar panel that charges the phone using the sun's rays ...

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"We thought there could be a more convenient solar charger for cell phones," said one of two inventors, from Mount Ulla, N.C.

It's heat-resistant, waterproof, dust-proof and drop-proof, so it's likely to be safe no matter your environment. The device has more than 1,600 charging life cycles and a battery capacity of 42800mAh ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Saule Technologies has created a prototype for a thin, flexible solar panel. The translucent material can charge cellphones and might even replace roof-mounted ...

[Michael] took a battery charger meant to be connected to mains power and converted it to work with a solar panel ... That’s because his Android phone has a fast and slow USB charging mode.