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The Dorman interview and those PureView camera phones
A short, but interesting interview is excerpted and linked to below, with one of the biggest fans of Nokia's camera tech, Richard Dorman (a.k.a. 'Sheridan01' in many instances online). He's taken more...
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The Burst Camera you didn't know you had in your Symbian Belle FP2 phone
Burst photos are 'in' at the moment, and rightly so. While no use at all for traditional photography stars like coastlines and sunsets, when it comes to action shots of kids, pets and wildlife, it can...
View ArticleMicrosoft to acquire Nokia's Devices & Services business and license patents
Microsoft and Nokia today announced that they had signed an agreement whereby Nokia will sell its Devices & Services business and license its patents to Microsoft for €5.4 billion. The transaction...
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Five under-appreciated design features of the Nokia E6 Communicator
You know, the more the world centres in on large touch-only smartphones, the more I continue to appreciate the genuinely different hardware we've had in the modern age in the Symbian world. Yes, the OS...
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Google Maps servers start to disconnect from Symbian
Google Maps on Symbian has something of a chequered history, from its first release as a Java app to a native Symbian application to the rise of Google's own smartphone platform (Android) and the...
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Track@Way polished and personal, for hikers
We've seen a fair number of GPS tracking utilities in our time at AAS, but Track@Way stands out as being colourful and more 'personal', with the facility to export your tracks and to re-navigate...
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The Microsoft buy-out: is there an impact on the Symbian world?
It seems that Tuesday's news of Microsoft buying Nokia's devices arm, lock, stock and barrel, generated something of a storm of comment, mostly on conspiracy lines. But, this being All About Symbian, I...
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Data point: only one year of repair parts left for Symbian smartphones?
Just one data point of course, but from a trusted source, it seems that there are roughly one year's worth of spare parts left for repair purposes, for many Symbian smartphones, within Nokia's service...
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App Wizard 'apps' disappear from the Nokia Store
Back in 2009, Nokia introduced the 'Ovi App Wizard', a web-based way for anyone to paste in their blog's RSS feed and get a 'news' app spat out the other end, auto-inserted into the Ovi Store. The...
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Instagraph Uploader (for Instagram) adds photo preview and more...
You may remember that we featured Instagraph Uploader a few weeks ago? It was a basic Instagram uploader utility that used a cloud service as an intermediary - but did work. Available today is a...
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qooRSS update: qooSaver adds RSS headlines to your always-on screen saver
Not content with bringing status info, email and weather to your always on AMOLED screen saver on Symbian, qooSaver has now added RSS headlines. Obviously it's only the first few words of the two top...
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fMobi updated to work with latest Facebook API changes
fMobi, reckoned by many to be the best Facebook client on Symbian, has been out of action for weeks, but it's now back and working, thanks to the new v3.6 update which is 'updated to work with latest...
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Real world low light PureView and Xenon testing: Nokia 808 vs 1020
I've handled a broad strokes comparison of the two 41 megapixel camera flagships of the smartphone world before, notably here (when I declared them roughly equal in merit though with very different...
View Article361 Degrees Podcast - "RIP Nokia (Devices & Services Division)"
In the eighth episode of the fifth season of the 361 Degrees Podcast the team discuss last week's Nokia and Microsoft news. The podcast offers a summary of what was announced, explains there's more of...
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'Support until 2016' confirmed by Nokia's Weber
A perfectly valid question, following Microsoft's buyout of Nokia's Devices division, is "what will happen to Symbian?", which I've already tried to answer. One of the points I tackled was what would...
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EasyStreetView brings the world to your Symbian phone
How is it possible that a small independent developer can come in with a tiny 30kb tool like this and take over where one of the biggest companies in the world is lacking? I reported a few days ago...
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Mobile Gmail gets refreshed, "faster and easier"
With Google's old Java client getting very long in the tooth and with a fear that the back-end it ties into will stop working at some point it will stop working, it's good to see that Google hasn't...
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Can Symbian handle Bitcoin?
If you've heard of Bitcoin, you may be wondering whether you can handle your digital currency on your Symbian smartphone. Well, the answer is yes and no. There are two applications, both two years old,...
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Nokia's DC-19 Universal Portable USB Charger provides power on the go
Nokia today announced a new charging accessory, the DC-19 Universal Portable USB Charger. The accessory, an updated version of the earlier DC-16 Universal Portable USB Charger, provides a way to...
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CameraPro Qt gets useful extra button functions
CameraPro Qt is the all-singing, all-dancing camera application for the Nokia 808. From burst mode to anti-shake to real time effects, there's seemingly nothing that this third party title can't do....
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