Qt release notes hint at continuing Symbian updates behind the scenes
Now, now, don't get too excited, but we were alerted to some interesting changelog lines in the official Qt release notes for Qt 4.8.3 and Qt 4.8.4, clearly indicating that fixes and updates that are...
View ArticleStabilisation extra: sunlight test
Consider this a 'DVD extra' from the relevant Phones Show, but in investigating the pros and cons of software stabilisation when capturing video on modern smartphones, I also had this comparison...
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Archimedean Solitaire a decent distraction
I've a soft spot for card solitaires, not least because they tend to be close to the infinite game ideal. Archimedean Solitaire presents a simple variant, relying on your ability to recognise card...
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fring for Symbian compatible again with iOS, Android and new fring back-end
You may remember that the VoIP application fring had its back-end upgraded a couple of months ago to enable new features on iOS and Android handsets? Symbian users have been left out in the cold since...
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Fastest and newest Symbian - Belle FP2, in use for real in 2013
We're well into 2013 now and I'm hearing anecdotes from round the world about how few Symbian-powered phones people are seeing on the streets. Regardless of where the estimated 100 million+ current...
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Shopper presents Google Shopping in palatable form
Google Shopping has never been a perfect(ly comprehensive) shopping comparison site, but it is useful from time to time, for getting a rough idea for how much particular items are. It's hard to use...
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Sharp Shooter more a time waster than a time filler?
Casual games are all very well, but they have to be interesting as well as challenging. G Soft's Sharp Shooter falls just the wrong side of this equation, with bow and arrow gameplay that gets...
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Doodle God proves slick but ultimately not that lively
If you're feeling rather superior of all you survey then perhaps you fancy a game to suit your mood. Doodle God is a remake of the elements style of game where you start by coming the four basic...
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Review: Snake Deluxe 2
Everybody loves a good mash up scenario. Take Nokia's classic 'Snake' game from the earliest mono-screened feature phones. Take a modern multi-level, multi-scenario game framework. Mash the two...
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Front Camera 808 gives easy, but low-res results
You may remember that I featured Qt Camera Demo and SCam recently, as possible ways of accessing the secondary camera on the Nokia 808 PureView? Here's Front Camera 808, a slightly slicker method,...
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Catching up with Business Calendar
It's been a while since we last looked at Business Calendar, the alternative calendar application for Symbian. If you're tired of the built-in calendar app and looking for something new, then you...
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Symbian gets tiles courtesy of Qt Shell
Are you feeling stuck with your Symbian phone and wishing you had the budget to switch over to sparkly new Windows Phone or Nokia N9 or both?! If you've fallen for the bait of that sentence then you'll...
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Monsterit is 30% physics, 30% truck, 20% fun and 20% weird
Ah yes - Monster Trucks. I have to confess my main encounter with this unique sport is through the medical drama series House(!) In this Symbian version though, updated here with '30 new levels', you...
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Bubble Birds 3: "Back in action"
No, no, not those birds (despite the colour similarities) - these aren't angry! You may remember that we reviewed the very first version of Bubble Birds a year and a half ago? Well, the birds are back...
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Unboxing the N86 (no, really!) plus interesting nuggets
Well, that was an interesting half hour. As a big fan of the Nokia N86 (from 2009) myself, I was interested to see Marc from the PureView Club tackling another of his 'retro' unboxings, this time of a...
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Review: ChessGenius
File this review well and truly under 'Really? This app is still going?' - ChessGenius has been around the Symbian world for many years, we even looked at it in 2006 briefly, on S60 3rd Edition. Wow....
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RiverRaider proves that you don't NEED hi-res graphics to have fun
Conclusively proving, once and for all, that you don't need high resolution graphics in order to have fun, is RiverRaider, a port of an old 1980s home console classic for Symbian handsets. It's...
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Nokia still innovating on Symbian: new Webview widget for all
Nokia hasn't given up on Symbian it seems (not that I doubted it). Beta Labs is pushing out a new 'Webview widget', aiming to put a slice of a live web page on your Symbian Nokia Belle smartphone...
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MMMOOO Gif allows the creation of Gif animations - with huge caveats
Now, don't get too excited, there are several big caveats (all listed below) to get over, but 'MMMOOO Gif' does, essentially, do what it claims to do - produce Gif animations on your Symbian...
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Liqua Pop the most fluid Symbian game... ever
A hit on the iPhone, Liqua Pop now comes to Symbian, presenting fluid gameplay that's, quite simply, astonishing. It's clear that Symbian-specialists Herocraft have had to work hard to bring the game...
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