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4 way flagship phone camera shootout: Nokia 808, Lumia 1020 and 925, Galaxy...
A couple of days ago, I pitted the Nokia 808 against the new Lumia 1020 directly, concluding that the latter's images were more processed but did have the advantage of being more immediately attractive...
View ArticleReviewing the Lumia 1020's camera and the next phase of PureView
Again, strictly a link of interest, but you may be wondering why AAS has gone a little quiet over the last week? It's the arrival of the Nokia Lumia 1020, of course, as you'll have seen from the...
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Monsters University - is this what gaming on Symbian has descended to?
Anyone remember the heady days of late 2010 and early 2011, when a rash of twenty or so 'HD' games appeared for the likes of the Nokia N8? Some great titles, many still listed on my Games Directory,...
View Article361 Degrees Podcast Season 5
Season 5 of the 361 Degrees Podcast kicked off last month, with the fifth episode being published yesterday. The 361 team, consisting of Ben Smith from Wireless Worker, Ewan MacLeod from Mobile...
View ArticleNokia Lumia 1020 vs Nokia 808: PureView video comparison
While working on my review of the video capture side of the new Nokia Lumia 1020, I took the chance to do some back to back comparisons, on my phone jig, with its PureView predecessor, over on Symbian,...
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FilesPlus gains Box.com compatibility, goes free
FilesPlus, as the Symbian cloud storage manager, has been through many updates in the last six months, culminating in v1.3.0 here, which not only adds full Box.com(/.net) compatibility, it's also now...
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Gismeteo weather app gains new widgets
Just over a year ago, we had the debut release of the Gismeteo weather application for Symbian. This is a comprehensive weather forecasting system based in Russia and is cross-platform. I doubt that...
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PhotProc gets interface change and new filters
PhotProc, you may remember, is a processor-intensive image processing tool for Symbian, purpose built for the Nokia 808 (though should work on other Belle FP2 devices). The idea is to apply...
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Whatsapp for Symbian updated with voice messaging
Following in the footsteps of newer applications like WeChat, Whatsapp has been updated to provide a easy and hassle free voice messaging feature - yes, even on Symbian. Though it was always present in...
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InoReader yet another post-Google Reader RSS option?
Whether you're reading this on All About Symbian or All About Windows Phone, the chances are that you've had to re-evaluate your news/RSS-reading habit in the light of Google's 2013 withdrawal of...
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Updated HERE stats show rapid growth of indoor mapping coverage
Nokia UK recently shared an infographic on Twitter showcasing the latests coverage stats for Nokia's HERE apps. We last looked at these numbers in February, so we thought it would be interesting to see...
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qooSaver gets email integration, new options
You'll remember how we all swooned when qooSaver popped up on Symbian a month ago? All that lovely information, including a weather forecast, on our always-on AMOLED screen savers? Well, it just got...
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CameraPro gets remote shutter and 'dual capture'
Another day, another big application update. This time it's Harald Meyer's top notch, bleeding edge Camera replacement, Camera Pro Qt, aimed at the Belle FP2 devices mainly, and (obviously)...
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Happiest away from the smartphone bleeding edge?
As a regular compiler of smartphone 'top 5's in The Phones Show, I find myself regularly finding myself happiest at least one generation from the current bleeding edge of technology, somewhat oddly....
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PureView in real life (Nokia 808 and 1020)
Yes, yes, we all know that poring over someone else's holiday photos can be tedious, but when they're taken by someone who knows what they're doing with a smartphone camera and when they're all...
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newsBlurQt debuts, early access to NewsBlur
The flood of RSS and news gathering clients and solutions continues - truly the omnipresence of Google Reader was holding the RSS world back? NewsBlur is an alternative to the likes of Feedly, featured...
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Clicker the perfect event counting utility
Anyone who's ever organised an event will realise the usefulness of a 'clicker', a gadget that keeps count, usually of people coming in through the doors. Yet one more gadget to fall into the...
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Mig 2D: Retro Shooter debuts for shoot 'em up fans
You have to hand it to the Herocraft folks. Even though the company has reverted back to creating games in Java, producing new, full strength, commercial titles for Symbian in the second half of 2013...
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Generate QR Code is tiny and free
If you've ever wanted to generate a QR code for your business or organisation (or even yourself) and wanted to do it on your Symbian smartphone then you're just geeky try 'Generate QR Code', which does...
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How to: Set the Nokia 808 up to satisfy '2013' photo preferences
Having completed a round of Nokia 808/Lumia 1020 comparisons, it's very evident that the Nokia 808 PureView and Nokia Lumia 1020's cameras are very, very close overall, though also with very different...
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