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Four PureView photographers you should know
A nice idea from The PureView Club's Marc here, picking out his four favourite 'PureView' photographers, along with links and examples of their work. Spanning the Nokia 808 on Symbian and the Lumia 925...
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qooWeather 4.3.3 improves qooSaver integration
The excellent suite of 'qoo' applications for Symbian continues to improve with this, v4.3.3 of qooWeather, which ensures better and more reliable integration with qooSaver, highlighted last week,...
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F1uptodate adds foreign language news option, E6 support, bug fixes
F1uptodate has been a Symbian staple for Forumla 1 fans for a while now, and v2.2 brings significant improvements, especially for non-English speakers. As usual, there's information on teams and races,...
View ArticleA must watch: Bangkok time lapse from the Nokia 808
If you watch no other video today on your computer, watch this one, embedded below. And watch it in full 1080p HD if possible - it's a time lapse of Bankok scenes through the day, all assembled from...
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ThOR debuts, brings The (new!) Old Reader to Symbian
The story so far... Google Reader gets canned and a flurry of RSS aggregators (i.e. news collectors) appear, of which The Old Reader, being closely coded to resemble the original, looked promising....
View ArticleAAS Insight #241: App round up, PureView comparisons
In All About Symbian Insight 241, hosted by Steve and Rafe, we round up the latest app news in the Symbian world, with mentions for ThOR, NewsBlurQt, qooSaver, Whatsapp, PhotProc, FilesPlus, and more....
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Updated version of Nokia's map data collection car
The data for HERE Maps comes from many sources, but one of the most important is the ground truthing data that comes from a fleet of data collection cars that drive around the road network collecting...
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YouTube update to Gallery hits Belle FP2
We may not be getting any more functional updates to Symbian, but the fixes to counter service changes continue, as evidenced by today's update to Symbian Belle FP2's Gallery, matching API changes at...
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Interesting reading for those mulling over switching with Nokia to Windows Phone
Going on from my thoughts in the podcast about the time finally being right to consider moving with Nokia over to Windows Phone, now that the GDR2/Amber update is available, you might be interested in...
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Symbian and the Nokia 808 in the 808 state
This isn't the first time we've linked across to an Andy Hagon article, but we make no apologies for doing so again, with Andy here talking about his wedding month with the Nokia 808 PureView. Oh, and...
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Nokia 808: the 'Superfine' question
Yes, yes, the headline sounds like an episode title from The Big Bang Theory, but I'm actually referring to something that occurred to me while writing up my feature on tweaking the Nokia 808's photo...
View ArticleLatest Topolino video utterly disingenuous - but still stunning
The latest video epic from Topolino (Tommi Vainionpää), despite the misleading title of 'Nokia Lumia 1020 video - The Power of Zoom Reinvented', does prove stunning. Although it doesn't actually...
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Gotya re-uses an old Symbian smartphone as a security cam
Introducing Gotya, an app (and cloud service) that can be used to turn an old (S60 5th/Symbian^3) Symbian smartphone into a smart motion dectection camera (i.e. take a photo when motion is detected)....
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PhotProc gains functionality, fixes bugs, gains an online manual
The (still in need of a better name) Nokia 808 after-market photo processing tool PhotProc has just made it to v0.9.9 (so presumably one step away from a full release), with the update bringing an...
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MusiKloud is a full SoundCloud client for Symbian
This has been around for a while but completely below my (and other reader's) radar - MusiKloud is a fully featured SoundCloud client that allows you to browse, search, play and download tracks and...
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Instagraph Uploader (for Instagram), basic, limited, but works
Apparently, Instagram is a big deal and very popular in the mobile world, but as ever, the cynic in me asks why anyone would want to take a lovely 5MP or 8MP Nokia-shot photo and only share it as a...
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Symbian platform gets Nokia Social update for Twitter login changes
Another week, another Symbian platform update, this time to fix compatibility with authentication changes at Twitter's end. Rolling out now via SW_update on all Symbian Belle (/Refresh/FP1/FP2) devices...
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The 'ins and outs' of PureView zoom on the Nokia 808
I've often proclaimed that the most natural way to use the Nokia 808 is in one of its 'PureView' modes, i.e. using the oversampling to produce the legendarily 'pure', noiseless pixels, rather than...
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ThOR gains support for multiple services, E6 login fixes, Readability and TTS
More big new Symbian application news: since our first ThOR coverage a few weeks ago, the developer hasn't been idle, with a big new release now available that ropes in extra RSS aggregator services...
View ArticleA most excellent Nokia 808 summer video compilation
Showing just what the Nokia 808 can do in terms of macro video and PureView zooming, along with delightful countryside scenes and nature that are right up my street, is Olivier Noirhomme, from Belgium,...
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