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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (15359)	9/28/2001 9:45:23 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Respond to of 34857

MOTOROLA’S HAND JOB www.telecomtv.com Motorola is to launch a mobile phone battery that can be recharged by hand. According to Gary Brandt, business director for Motorola’s companion products and accessories division, the battery weighs 7 ounces (approx 180 grammes) and is the size of a normal mobile handset. It comes complete with a manual winder and, Motorola claims, that 45 seconds of cranking is sufficient to generate enough power for an extra 5 or 6 min-utes of talk time. Brandt says the aim is to provide a way for mobile subscribers stuck with a dead battery, literally, to generate extended airtime. Motorola is making the device in partnership with the Freeplay Energy Group, a company that designs and builds various wind-up power sources. The gaudy yellow and blue batteries will cost US$50 and will be on sale in the US by year-end. They are to debut in Europe early in 2002. Initially they will work only with Motorola mobile hand-sets, but Brandt says the company will make it possible to use the same devices on other brands such as Nokia and Ericsson and that they should be avail-able by early summer next year. If they catch on you’d better get used to callers saying, “I’m sorry, you’re breaking up. The battery’s dying, give me a minute, I’m going for a crank”.