Press releaseIntivation and Cellon partner to create new solar phone range

16 Feb 2010

BARCELONA, FEBRUARY 16, 2010 – Intivation today announced a new partnership with Cellon. Together, Intivation and Cellon are working on a range of new handset designs using Intivation’s SunBoost solar conversion technology and building on Cellon’s innovation heritage.

Several devices are in development and will be made available later this year to third parties as white labelled handsets, targeted at African, Indian and Latin American markets. Conversations with potential customers are already ongoing. 

Dave Dai, CEO, Cellon, commented, “Working with Intivation on a range of new designs for solar mobile phones is a great opportunity for Cellon. We’re dedicated to designing cool, innovative phones and believe that solar has a real place in this market. The designs we’re working on are for devices that are not only useful and practical, but enjoyable to use and look at too.”

Paul Naastepad, CEO, Intivation, added; “Cellon is an exciting partner for us to work with. Together, we’re exploring new markets and solutions and I look forward to launching some extraordinary new products together this year.”

ABOUT CELLON

Since 2007 Cellon Communications Technology is a privately held company registered in Hong Kong and part of Cathay Communications group. Cellon was established in 2001, starting from Spin-off of Philips mobile phone European R&D center, leveraging Philips’ business excellence processes and in-house platform technologies. Cellon Communications Technology provides wireless handset and module solutions to major global OEM, Operators and Distributors. The company has design centers in China and Korea and sales, technical support in US, Canada, Europe and across Asia. 

ABOUT INTIVATION

Mobilizing the sun, Intivation helps handset manufacturers and network operators bring mobile communications to 1.6 billion power challenged and environmentally aware users. We develop and market a highly innovative, proprietary technology that enables solar powered devices that actually work. Please refer to our website www.intivation.nl for more information.

Intivation, an Amsterdam based engineering firm, partners with some of the world’s leading mobile devices manufacturers and has broad experience in integrating solar power solutions in portable consumer electronics.

Intivation is the leader in the development of solar powered mobile phones, chargers and battery packs.