Kenya welcomes first solar-charged mobile phones - 14 Aug 09

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Kenya is home to at least 17 million mobile-phone customers, but only one million have regular access to electricity, making it difficult to recharge a mobile phone.

But the first solar-powered handset could change Kenya's telecommunication industry.

Yvonne Ndege, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Nairobi, reports.