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Air Music - channel your inner R2D2?
I walked round the kitchen several times before my wife said "What IS that wierd bleeping noise?" "Ah", I said, "that'll be Air Music. It responds to accelerometer movement in the phone and converts...
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foursquare for Symbian fixes SSH woes
foursquare for Symbian has always been a very polished piece of work, with almost all 4sq features and a modern interface, including NFC checkins where appropriate if your phone has this functionality....
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The N95 helps out a poorly 808 PureView(!)
Look away if you have a nervous disposition(!) but below is a heart warming tale of how an ageing Nokia N95 classic came to the rescue of my ailing Nokia 808 PureView - and an observation that the...
View Article23 minutes of Juha Alakarhu on all things Nokia, imaging and PureView
No, don't switch off just because it's 23 minutes long and is presented in a Finnish accent! Nokia's new head of digital imaging, Juha Alakarhu, sits down with MobileSyrup here to talk over the two...
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Kinoni Remote Desktop gives direct Windows PC access
The story so far: Kinoni are the company behind products like EpocCam, passing through video from your phone to your desktop - so we know they're pretty hot on phone-desktop video streaming. Next up, a...
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PhotoFunia gets UI overhaul, new effects, higher resolution output
You remember PhotoFunia from my review earlier this year? Essentially a library of composite effects to apply to your photos, it has now had a big v3.0 overhaul - some screens and links below. Still a...
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The mobile app super league - how do Windows Phone 8 and Symbian compare?
We hear time and time again how iOS and Android are streets ahead of the competition in terms of availability of applications and I've even done a few repostes of my own, a while ago. Time for a new...
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Get the Android lockscreen with Dunlock
Whether you are thinking of moving onto Android after your current device or you are finding yourself feeling rather envious of your Android toting friends, now might be the time to start making your...
View ArticleNokia sheds 300 IT jobs as final stage of June 2012 job losses
Nokia has announced it plans to streamline its IT organisation in order to "increase operational efficiency and reduce operating costs". As a result of the planned changes Nokia will transfer certain...
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Ski Resorts Webcams
If you're an enthusiastic skier then you probably spend half your life glued to the various resort webcams anyway, looking at the state of the snow and wondering whether it's worth making the trip up...
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The Nokia 808 PureView takes on the Samsung Galaxy Camera
Yep, a battle royal and a sumptuous read from the GSM Arena folks. They keep an 808 around their offices as 'the gold standard in mobile phone imaging', which means that they actually know how to use...
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Review: Fantasy Kingdom Defence
Tower Defence, it's a genre of game that everyone in the All About Symbian office seems happy for me to take care of; I don't know why, but I'm not complaining. Just when I thought I'd seen everything...
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Belle Extra Buttons gets big UI update
'Belle Extra Buttons' overlays new icons and functions onto the standard Symbian Belle homescreen toolbar, as you might have guessed from the name. It's a kludge, admittedly, but a rather cool one and...
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Mobizy for mobile business management on Symbian and everything else
Mobizy is a service for small businesses to handle collaborative activities such as scheduling, contact management and notes. Unusually, it's available every mobile platform you can think of: Symbian,...
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Nokia QWERTY heaven
Andy Hagon is at it again. One of the few enthusiasts around the globe who can reminisce with real authority on Nokia hardware in general and QWERTY input in particular. In this new feature (grab a...
View ArticleSoftware stabilisation on the Nokia 808, plus 2010 as a line in the sand...
I occasionally embed an episode from my Phones Show video podcast when it's directly relevant to readers here. In this case, I was looking at the issue of software-based video stabilisation, with...
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Review: Contre Jour
This is 2013, a full two years after Symbian was given its marching orders, yet we still see some major games being released for the hundreds of millions of existing Symbian users. Thankfully. The...
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qMetro: Subway maps of the world
There are a few 'metro' (tube) applications around, but always room for one more, especially a general purpose utility into which you can load your local tube system. 'qMetro: Subway maps of the world'...
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Another way to make Symbian look like MeeGo
Calling all MeeGo fans, MeeGo Evolved by Blade is yet another theme for your Symbian device, nice to have for when you start to wistfully wonder what had happened if Nokia had stuck with the Linux...
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Boggle your mind with 8 Over 12
I like puzzle games. Moreover, I like puzzle games I can eventually work out. 8 over 12 (and it's numerically lesser cousins) is a puzzle that has me stumped. In this game you have 8 white discs that...
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