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Review: Screenlock FX
If you're a phone geek, customising one's smartphone is one of the best things about owning it. Since the release of Symbian^3, we have enjoyed the always-on clock and notification display from our...
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Maze Lock brings unlock gestures
When it comes to locking your phone, the Android world seems to have the widest range of options. Not to be outdone, there are some apps out there in Symbian land that replace standard functions like....
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Poddi Podcatcher updated again
The developer of Poddi Podcatcher has been at it again - updating Symbian's latest podcatcher app. We reviewed version 1.0 of Poddi Podcatcher and rated it very highly. Since then it has received a...
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Lost Objects for Titanic fans
Whether you're a geek for everything about the ill-fated RMS Titanic, or are just a fan of James Cameron's film, the game Lost Objects HD might be of interest to you. It's a style of game we've seen...
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PureView shootout, round two: Nokia 808 vs Nokia Lumia 920 with PR1.1
In our previous head to head shootout between the Nokia Lumia 920 and the Symbian-powered Nokia 808 PureView, concentrating perhaps more on static, lower light situations, the newer 920 just failed to...
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Trying to report a problem in Nokia Maps/Drive (or not)
I was vexed today with a serious error in a smartphone navigation application. No, it wasn't Apple Maps on an iPhone, funnily enough, but the usually fairly reliable Nokia Maps/Drive, with exactly the...
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Tweetian gets big v1.7 performance and language update
Tweetian is fast becoming one of the pillars of the Symbian freeware scene. As the name suggests, it's a Twitter client, and rather a splendid one, continually updated and improved. Version 1.7 is out...
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Catan - The Seafarers Mini Review
Catan - The Seafarers is a turn based strategy game, if that's your kind of thing then read on. The game is set on an island, divided into hexagonal blocks. Each hex generates different types of...
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Nokia to block unauthorised access to firmware images
File this under 'Surprised this wasn't done long ago', but it seems that Nokia is about to lock down access to its 'Firmware Repository', a.k.a. the magic source of Symbian, Series 40 and Windows Phone...
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Backgammon Classic whiles away time but isn't fast paced or challenging
I'm a bit of a backgammon fan and have reviewed various versions over the years. So I was interested in this new implementation by NokiaMoki - it's pretty enough but the animation is slow and the AI...
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Anatomy of a great photo
I've published several 'how to' pieces in the past dishing out general smartphone photography tips, but for this 'how to' I wanted to take the example of a single great photo and put you inside my mind...
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Erebus RPG mini review
Did you used to play role playing games on a table top, rolling a D20 with your friends? Then you might be interested in the Erebus project. This is an open source roleplaying game, which lets you...
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Ten common objections to using Symbian - and my answers!
It's all very well trying to defend your choice of a Symbian-powered handset to your friends and family in 2013 - and I'm sure you have your own arguments. But, in case you'd like a URL to point them...
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S-Click offers a wealth of mobile shortcuts for the lazy
Opinion is still divided on whether S-Click is a stroke of genius or a pointless waste of pixels... It's an idea that's been tried before, but not this comprehensively. And certainly not as a paid...
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Nokia Store - enough 'download errors' to make a hardened geek weep
Once before, I complained about something heinously wrong in the Nokia Store and... it got fixed, the next day. I'm writing this missive in the hope that the same guys who work at Nokia are still...
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Unboxing the Nokia 7650 - no, really!
In something of a time warp, Marc from the PureView Club has somehow got his hands on a completely mint, as-new, boxed Nokia 7650 (from 2002), complete with original packaging, materials and even the...
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Size matters - the quest for 'right' for a truly MOBILE mobile
It's true, I'm something of a rebel - you can count on me to disagree with the accepted wisdom of the rest of the smartphone world fairly often. Camera phones with real Xenon flash, for example. And...
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Post Windows Phone, my two weeks with the N8
It's always interesting to see people switch platforms in a direction other than the obvious - in this case to take advantage of superior hardware. Daksh Srivastava (happily more easily known as...
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CuteTube 1.4.1 matches YouTube changes... again!
Yet again, Google has changed YouTube's APIs and yet again CuteTube has returned to availability, primed and ready to go. Version 1.4.1 is now available in the Nokia Store and comes highly recommended...
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Poddi Podcatcher gets feed saving and fix-up update
The 'other' podcast client for Symbian just got itself an update, to v1.1.3. Byteform's 'Poddi' now includes the ability to export your feed list as a .opml file, plus some 'out of memory' errors...
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