Samsung Electronics will start supplying liquid crystal display screens to Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones.Samsung will start selling them as early as the second half of this year and is expected to initially provide more than 20 million units a year, the Electronic Times said, citing an unidentified Samsung official.

Last year alone, Samsung sold 92 million small-sized LCDs. Under the new deal, Samsung may increase its annual output by an additional 50 million units, the report said.

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With many more cell phones coming in loaded with various applications to make your life easier here is another one of a phenomenon application.
Most of the people would have experienced the heavy audible interference in the TV or radio when a thunderstorms is approaching. Well, the science behind this is being used by Nokia to create a lightning detector device. The device being none other than the ubiquitous mobile phone.
The lightning strike disturbs a range of commercial frequencies (attributed to the EMI pulse) and Nokia intends to detect this interference in FM channel and warn users visually and/or audibly.
Nokia has applied for a patent for this invention back in late 2005. Since this does not require much hardware changes in new mobile phones to support this function we should see it in the market soon.

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