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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Nokia’s known for breaking out of the box from time to time, and their latest patent proves that. It describes a UMPC-like handheld with two touchscreens and a detachable keyboard. The keyboard can be slid on top of one of the screens should you need to text or browse the Web. Removing the keyboard would then let you use both screens as one display. It’s a pretty cool concept, though we’re still debating if it’s more UMPC than it is smartphone.

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The first Trojan SMS virus, designed for smartphones running Series 60 OS, has been spotted by Russian antivirus maker “Kaspersky Labs”. The virus is called Trojan-SMS.Symb.OS.Viver.
Viver is not a harmless concept study like recent Podloso Linux virus for iPod. If you get infected with this one, it can cost you some pretty money - after installation on your phone, Viver starts sending SMS messages to the premium SMS numbers, thus accruing charges to your mobile account and generating income for the virus author.

While quite a few similar viruses were spotted for all JAVA running mobile phones, Viver is the first to be specifically designed for S60 based smartphones.

If you’re using a S60 phone from Nokia, watch out. Kaspersky Labs has just discovered the first trojan, Troja-SMS.Symb.OS.Viver, that will affect the S60 OS. If you mistakenly download this from the internet and install this on your phone—which is easy to do, since it’s mislabeled and disguised as a useful photo editor or video codec pack—the virus will start sending out SMS messages like nobody’s business.

If you’re familiar with the gadgets and widgets on Windows Vista and Mac OS X, you’ll be pleased to hear that the same functionality is now available for your mobile.

WidSets says there are now over 1,400 widgets available, free of charge. The mini-web applications can deliver friends’ Flickr images, news headlines, Ebay bid updates, sports results, or other services direct to your mobile.

The Nokia-owned WidSets service is currently compatible with more than 300 mobile phones. Nokia N73, E50, E60, E61, and E61i phones have a link to WidSets in their Download! folders. Future Nokia smartphones will have WidSets embedded, Nokia revealed in April .

To get WidSets widgets on your phone you first need to register at www.widsets.com , and then download the free Java application over the air to your phone. The widgets displayed on your phone screen can be selected online, or via the mobile interet directly from your phone. You can either choose from one of the widgets listed on the WidSets website or create your own. Currently, only 10 per cent of the listed 1,400 WidSets widgets have been developed by WidSets themselves - 90 per cent are user generated.

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