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All About 'Oversampling', the Lumia 1020 compared to the original Nokia 808...
Having done a number of real world photo comparisons between Nokia's new Lumia 1020 and various competitors, including its own 'predecessor', the Nokia 808 on Symbian, I wanted to break down the word...
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Running a web site FROM your Symbian smartphone
You may remember, back in 2007, a Nokia project called Mobile Web Server, the idea being to host a personal web site ON your Symbian smartphone? Unsurprisingly, it never took off, but the uber-geeky...
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ThOR gains web search, performance optimisations, UI reworking
ThOR, which you may recall added support for Bazqux, InoReader and other feed services recently, has just been updated again, with a mountain of changes and fixes. See below for the full changelog and...
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Nokia's Podcasting 'Directories' finally unavailable
This may only be of interest to a small part of AAS's readership, but the directory 'servers' for Nokia Podcasting, built into most S60 3rd Edition and all S60 5th Edition smartphones, have finally...
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Now is the time... to double up and stock up?
From a Symbian enthusiast's point of view, the scare stories over availability of spare parts for repair and the ever-dwindling stock of new hardware across the world are something of a wake up call....
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From the Nokia N73 to the 808 PureView
Entitled, 'From the Nokia N73 to the 808 PureView – smartphone photography by Damian Dinning', you won't be surprised by the content of today's PureView Club article - but you may be surprised at the...
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New Lumia 1020 camera revelation gets it closer to Nokia 808 purity
In all my previous Nokia 808 PureView and Lumia 1020 still camera comparisons, there has been an assumption that has proved to be slightly inaccurate. You see, on many occasions a Lumia 1020 'reframed'...
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Dinning on choosing between the 808 and 1020
Damian Dinning, featured here many times on the All About sites, was the guy helping drive Nokia's imaging over the last decade. He no longer works for Nokia, meaning that he's now free to talk about...
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Nokia 808 PureView smartphone used to fluorescence image viruses
There's an interesting little article up on Wired, highlighting a novel use for the Nokia 808 PureView - with the aid of some 3D printing and a small laser, as a fluorescent imaging microscope! Details...
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ThemeBox - "Saving Symbian's legacy"?
You may remember that Nokia, as part of their ramping down on Symbian-specific activities recently, decided to stop accepting theme submissions into the Nokia Store? Not surprisingly, new themes keep...
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Smartphone camera sensor sizes visualised, light gathering ability calculated
It's a fair cop, I'm firmly in camera geek territory again here. We see a lot of smartphone camera comparisons online (not least here on the All About sites), but all this talk of optical formats and...
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Metal Steel and variations make it through the Store event horizon
You'll remember from yesterday about Nokia, as part of their ramping down on Symbian-specific activities recently, deciding to stop accepting theme submissions into the Nokia Store and my subsequent...
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WeChat walkthrough
Available for a couple of months for Symbian now, but recently updated to a big new version 4.2.0, clocking in at over 6MB, Chinese favourite WeChat is described as 'a robust and comprehensive voice...
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Replaceable batteries (again): battery disaster illustrated
Long time readers will remember my empassioned editorial on the subject of replaceable versus sealed batteries a year or so ago. Although putting forward the various arguments for and against the...
View ArticleAAS Insight #242: Future Symbian support
In All About Symbian Insight 242, hosted by Steve and Rafe, we talk about the future of Symbian support, especially in the light of the proposed acquisition of Nokia's Devices & Services business...
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Quickoffice for Symbian officially 'discontinued' by Google
Quickoffice was the main Office editing suite for Symbian from 2005 until 2011 (the date of the last installer we have on file), taking over from the built in Symbian native office suite inherited from...
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Nokia publishes more details on proposed Microsoft transaction
Nokia yesterday published additional material about its proposed transaction with Microsoft that will see the sale of its Devices & Services business and a major patent licensing agreement. The...
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Unpacking the Nokia N90, captured with the 808
Time for another slice of retro Symbian action over at The PureView club, with the 808 shooting a Nokia N90, the original 'transformer' smartphone and the first Nokia device with an auto-focus camera,...
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Review: Joby GripTight Micro Stand and Joby GripTight GorillaPod Stand
Somewhat eyeing up the OIS in the cameras of many of the Nokia Lumia smartphones, guest writer Keir Brython got to wondering how he could stabilise photos for extreme low light shots on his...
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Wake up healthy - testers needed!
Always happy to encourage new Symbian developers, here's Leonardo Alassia, an electronic engineer in Argentina, who has been through Android and come out the other side with a Nokia 808. For which he's...
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