that's pretty sweet.. now add with a satellite phone with bluetooth...and you have instant web!

yeah- wishful thinking bringing my bluetooth phone (cingular edge)....obviously no signal out there in the mountains....

...so how much will one of those bad-boy satellite phone with bluetooth COST????

it'd had been cool to have tigerserver'd my topo maps while cross country exploring......NEED a satellite phone w/ bluetooth......

DCarter

These thin foldable ones seem like newer technology?


http://www.globalsolar.com/consumer.htm
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=...Search+Froogle

http://www.discipline.org.ua/images/...kiacharger.jpg (Linked)
Here is how I've charged my n-gage and friends 6600 for two weeks. the cost of charger is under 40$ :), handmade. It survived a 2 weeks long mountainbike trip, and charged even when riding. Currently thinking of designing a charger from a bicycle dynamo. That would charge even faster.
A panel costs about 15$. Three panels would provide around 500ma after the charging circuit. I hope that would be sufficent to charge 770.

Re: Solar chargers?
 

http://misc.nicejewel.com/charging-n810.jpg
Using a 5 Watt panel

Re: Solar chargers?
 

Also with the solio which is relevant for you is that so long as the battery has charge you can hook it into your IT and have it run off the Solio so long as there is light. So for example you can open up the classic Solio while hiking and run the IT off mostly sunlight (assuming you have it) and therefore only using the internal battery at night when you're most likely to not be doing anything that drains power. In effect you keep the internal battery as a 'ready reserve" rather than the Solio as a ready reserve.