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Pocket Radar potentially a speed gun in your pocket?
I can't believe I didn't highlight this utility when it first came out, but the recently updated Pocket Radar is a clever idea and implementation. Given that you know how far something is travelling...
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In All About Symbian Insight number 234, Steve and Rafe start by discussing a number of recent software updates for Symbian Belle FP2 devices (Telephony and Gallery & Camera). We also cover some...
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The big shootout: Nokia 808 vs HTC One vs Lumia 920 vs an imposter(!)
With the arrival of the HTC One for Phones Show review, and with its imaging pretensions ("ultrapixels"!), what better opportunity than to put it up against the best camera-toting smartphones on both...
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The Filling proves slick and challenging
The concept's not exactly new, but developer Quanma has done a good job with the implementation here on Symbian - the idea is to gradually segment off parts of an alien-filled playing field without...
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MathGraphica3D impresses with scope and numeric depth
Calling MathGraphica3D a calculator is like calling The Bible a short story - we're talking a full graphical and numerical analysis tool, implemented for Windows, Mac, Linux and... Symbian. Eat your...
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UC Browser 8.8 IS available, you just have to know how to get it
I do like to keep my web browsers up to date, which has meant that it's been a frustrating month waiting for UC Browser 8.8, quite a significant upgrade, announced ages ago and then 'offered' by the...
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Getting Symbian updates out without fuss: 'Software Update' matures
With a flurry of updates for the Symbian Belle FP2 platform recently and even some for the Symbian Belle Refresh generation, Nokia's (ok, mainly Accenture's) remaining Symbian programmers are on...
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Spiral Affair is seriously spaced out
OK, so Spiral Affair is a little spacey, a little off the wall, part arcader, part puzzle, part.... odd. But it's also a well programmed little Symbian game, is available in free and no-ads versions...
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Checkers Deluxe looks cool, plays well, but watch out for those SMS!
"What's the catch?" is perhaps the right response to the release of this, Checkers Deluxe, offering an atmospheric game of checkers ('draughts') against your smartphone's AI, for free. It turns out the...
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The huge potential problem with in-app purchases
You may recall seeing some pointed comments by me in the recent mini-review of Checkers Deluxe, with a load of opportunities in the game to tap a button to fire off premium SMS to buy such and such a...
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Implemented in Web Runtime(!) - nChess is quick and casual
What do get when a Symbian enthusiast spots that someone once wrote an entire chess engine in javascript? You get a chess game implemented entirely in Symbian Web Runtime - and it's not as bad as you...
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Burst Camera provides 'HTC Zoey' function for Symbian
In our launch story for Burst Camera, I described how it could take very rapid (30 fps) sequences of photos and someone (rightly) pointed out in the comments that the app didn't in fact take actual...
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Messaging 'critical fix' available for Belle Refresh smartphones
Available now (/rolling out) for all Belle Refresh smartphones is a 'Fix for Messaging', offering 'critical fixes to known Messaging issues'. Quite what these are isn't known, but if you've been having...
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A (slightly geeky) cross-section of the smartphone world
As part of recording Phones Show Chat 180, I took the chance of meeting up with three other longtime smartphone users, spending a happy evening chatting about all things tech. Although I did note a...
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'Upload to SkyDrive' brought to S60 5th Edition in beta
As part of the suggested migration over to Windows Phone, and following the official roll out of 'Upload to SkyDrive' to the Symbian^3/Anna/Belle generation of hardware, Nokia's tackling something...
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YO! provides an alien-themed arcade puzzler
Think Tetris, think Columns and then mash the two together with loads of alien 'googly' eyes and you'll get the idea of YO!, in which you try and match four or more pairs of adjacent alien eyes,...
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An eloquent defense of the Nokia 808 PureView
I was pointed towards an eloquent piece here about the position of the Nokia 808 PureView and Symbian in today's smartphone world. The writer rightly highlights some of the ways in which the 808 is...
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Integral (sealed) memory vs microSD - which is better?
Throughout the history of PDAs and smartphones (so we're talking 20 years), one particular design battle has been raging, seemingly without a victor. From which you have to conclude that the battle is...
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Slide To Unlock, currently free and offering N9-style double-tap unlocking
Guest poster Ow Kah Leong has reported in on one of his favourite utilities, Slide To Unlock (from the developers behind the much respected Thumbnail Folders), see below for screens, etc. It doesn't...
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Four In A Row Planets proves hard to beat
There's a problem with puzzles that are easy to represent within a computer program - play against the machine and you'll get slaughtered. Chess is a common example, though there are strategic...
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