Patents patents patents
Why the hell must everything be patented? Seriously look at this crap from Apple. Does that warrant a patent? No. The whole “stick a clock radio in it” approach to patents has always been ridiculous, and while this isn’t quite that bad, it’s still just gluing technology A to technology B.
There’s nothing wrong with that, but I’d hate to see something like Openmoko, or any other project private or corporate, be stymied when it comes to using solar cells just because another company got a bug up its collective butt to patent a general concept.