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A new technology recently patented by Motorola could result in mobile phone users being able to charge their phone while on the move.

The LCD has solar cells which would enable mobile phones or other portable devices to be charged by sunlight, resulting in a solution to an annoying problem that affects many mobile users.

In technical speak, a screen is placed on top of one or more solar cells and then when light passes through the cells, the battery is charged as a consequence.

Earlier tests conducted by Motorola had not been as successful as the company would have liked with less than six per cent of light reaching the reflective screen.

Addressing this problem, the firm managed to use either polymer-disbursed liquid crystal or cholesteric liquid crystal in the display and these substances meant that due to there no longer being a necessity for both a polariser and a reflective screen to be utilised together, this change resulted in around 75 per cent of the light therefore reaching the cells.