Samsung India Electronics has unveiled world’s first solar power mobile phone – Solar Guru (Guru E1107) – in India, priced at Rs 2,799.

The company has developed ‘Solar Guru’ especially for people in rural areas where electric supply is unstable. The ‘Solar Guru’ users can charge the battery anywhere the sun is shining, if there is no electricity.

According to Samsung India, “The Solar Guru has been developed keeping in mind the needs of Indian consumers, especially customers residing in areas where the electric supply is unstable”.

Apart from the normal electric charging, Samsung ‘Guru E1107’ has the capacity to provide around 5-10 minutes of talk time with 1 hour of solar charging and a full solar charge of around 10-14 hours for the cell phone provides around 4 hours of talk time.

The new handset comes with 1.52-inch screen with a resolution of 65K CSTN (128x128) and 1 MB of user memory.

Other features of Solar Guru include FM radio, MP3 ring tones, torch and pre-loaded games.

Samsung Country Head (Mobile Division) Sunil Dutt said, “The handsets would be imported from Korea and will be available in the Indian market from the middle of this month”.

“Samsung would also look at manufacturing the handsets from its facility in Noida,” Dutt added.