Las Vegas — Finnish Bluetooth accessories vendor Iqua brought what it claims is the world’s first solar-powered Bluetooth headset to International CES.
The Iqua 603 Sun, a 2008 CES Innovations Award winner, sports a solar panel that drives a proprietary 3.7-volt/110mAh lithium-polymer battery that provides up to nine hours of talktime and up to 200 days of standby time when fully charged.
The solar panel is sensitive enough to charge on a cloudy day as well as indoors using artificial light, according to Iqua VP Americas, Paul Murdock. The headset also ships with a USB charger and a wall charger, which charges the unit in about two hours.
The unit has a small form factor, weighing in at 14 grams, and can be paired with up to eight devices, one at a time.
Features include an answer/end/reject/mute call button, last-number redial, voice-dial activation when supported by mobile phone, LED connection/call status/battery low indicator and automatic reconnection at power on.
The Sun will ship in late January through retailers and carries a suggested retail of $99.99.