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(Run like) The Wolf HD - smooth but hard
Deciding whether to highlight a game on All About Symbian often depends on how I get on with it. But I'll make an exception here - The Wolf HD is polished and smooth and has clearly had some love...
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Investigating the text input wars - which is fastest of all?
You can't move in our corners of the Internet without some debate springing up about which is best: hardware keys, virtual keys, T9 or Swype. It's almost a religious thing, with devotees of one...
View Article361 Degrees Podcast - "Christmas Special"
The eight episode of the fourth season of the 361 Degrees Podcast is something of a Christmas special. Each of the team, with apologies to Father Christmas, nominate one mobile related company or news...
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Defuse The Bomb - Mastermind with explosives!
Remember the old Mastermind board game, where you had to guess combinations of colours and were told various information about each guess, gradually deducing what the 'correct' combination was? Now...
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Updating the 'Curated Symbian Application Store'
You may remember that, fed up with reams of (in my opinion) novelty/niche/poor items being added to the Nokia Store (other mobile stores are just as bad, note), I created the Curated Symbian Store a...
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15 things from January 2011 - how did Nokia do?
Back in January 2011, almost two years ago, and just before the infamous decision by new CEO Stephen Elop to switch Nokia's strategy away from Symbian and Meego and towards Windows Phone, I identified...
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MineSweeper is clean, futuristic and free
MineSweeper remains a classic logic game that's perfect for whiling away time on long journeys or unwinding before bed. And this new version, while free of gimmicks and frills, is also free of ads or...
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Turn your smartphone into a Mobile Microphone
Now why on earth hasn't someone thought of this before? Pico Brothers have hit upon yet another use for your smartphone - as a high quality real time microphone. Now, we all know you can record (or...
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'Nokia Maps' base maps get a Christmas 2012 update
Proving, perhaps, that Nokia's winding down of Symbian development can still benefit from work done for Windows Phone and, indeed, the wider (and new) Here platform, an update is now available for the...
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Wi-fi connection issues on Belle FP1 or FP2? Try this fix.
It seems that Nokia has identified an issue with Wi-fi connections on Belle FP1 and FP2 devices connecting to 'old WLAN Access Points' (i.e. old routers). There has been a very low profile patch...
View ArticleAAS Insight #230: Google sync and news roundup
In All About Symbian Insight number 230, Steve and Rafe talk about the news that Google is to withdraw support from Exchange ActiveSync from free Gmail accounts and assess the impact it will have on...
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The N97 classic and Qt, sitting in a tree...
You've got to hand it to the 'hacker' community, in this case Phorepoc (based in Greece), who has tweaked the DarkStream 2.2 Nokia N97 classic firmware that I'd previously played with but ultimately...
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Gravity responds to YouTube and Facebook API changes
If you use social media clients then it's vital to stay up to date, since they tend to change ther APIs quite often. YouTube and Facebook implemented changes recently and if you're a Gravity fan then...
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Accessing the secondary camera in Belle FP2
One of the more curious aspects of the modern Symbian Camera interface, in Belle FP1 on the Nokia 808 PureView and then rolled out into the wider FP2 upgrade for the likes of the Nokia 701, was that...
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Nimbuzz gains friend search, Twitter improvements and more
Nimbuzz, the popular cross-platform instant messaging and VoIP solution, has had a big update to its Symbian client. Version 3.5 adds 'friend search', Twitter improvements and, most importantly, also...
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All was quiet on Christmas morn... then a FLASH OF LIGHT!
Picture the scene.... The snow falls gently, settling around the cars and houses.... The fire is lit and the living room is nicely warm. Your nearest and dearest are gathered round, talking and giving...
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SunCalc - everything you ever wanted to know about where the sun is (and more)
Maybe you're a sun-worshipper?(!) Or just a sky-geek? Or maybe you just like staying informed, fascinated by the changing path of the Sun around our planet? Either way, SunCalc is just about the last...
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Sky Force Reloaded is err... reloaded!
Aha! Merry Christmas from Infinite Dreams and Nokia, who have finally sorted out the certificate issue that stopped the arcade classic Sky Force Reloaded being available for modern Symbian phones....
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Devil's Ride 3D not so devilish, not so 3D - but still a nice diversion
The signs aren't good from the get go, here's the developer's own intro: "Have you ever dreamed of making an video game? How would you put everything cool in it? ...extreme sports, a lot of crazy...
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Qt Camera Demo offers alternative UI for either camera - and with RGB...
With the Belle FP2 Camera app changes, I highlighted SCam recently as a way of getting access to your phone's front camera again. Turns out, from a link in the comments to that story, that Nokia's Qt...
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