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Music player update for many Belle devices
If your Symbian device has Nokia Belle but has yet to receive the Belle Refresh update, it would be worth checking your Software Updater application. Besides the Homescreen Widgets application we...
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The "Burning Platform" theme hits a million downloads
Eighteen months after Symbian OS development was effectively cancelled by Stephen Elop, and in a week when we've seen a massive brace of continuing device and application updates, the irony of the...
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The Nokia 808 PureView camera easily bests a five year old standalone champion
Camera comparison specialists DxOMark have put up a nice summary of their tests of the best smartphone cameras against a range of standalone digital cameras, past and present. Their conclusion? Thet...
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A real world comparison of offline, data-free maps when heading abroad
Not quite what you think when I say 'data-free' - we're talking completely data-free, as in not allowing mobile data at all because of prohibitive roaming charges. Specifically guest writer Alan...
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Google+ for Symbian (effectively) just got swipier
Google has put in a few tweaks to their HTML5 Google+ site, i.e. the portal into the Google social network (there being no proper open APIs on which anyone can build a third party client). You may...
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How to: use T9-style keypad input on Belle Feature Pack 2
One oddity about the upgrade to Belle FP2 for the Nokia 808, 701 and so on, was that the only keyboard offered seemed to be the QWERTY one. Yes, the latter was much improved, but for many one-handed...
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Poddi Podcatcher gets major update
We recently reviewed Poddi Podcatcher, a new podcasting client for Symbian. While it looked great with its contemporary usre interface, there were a few issues that prevented it being recommended to...
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Exploring a 'Vision of Pureness'
Maybe it was the 'Pure' bit in the name or the clean looks or even the fact that a set of 'default icon' themes were supplied as standard (yay!), but I thought you'd like All About Symbian to take the...
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Is the only real use for the 808 PureView's 34MP mode making jaws drop?
I was struck by an email from reader 'Brian' from Florida, recounting how he wowed an iPhone-owning friend with the image fragment below, using the full power of the massive sensor in the Nokia 808...
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Review: Jelly Wars
Take Angry Birds physics, add bombs of various types and then add a real life opponent trying to blow you up as hard as you're trying to blast them, and you end up with Jelly Wars, a slick online...
View ArticleBelle FP2 to be final Symbian update - tacitly.
A reply to a recent bug report on Nokia Developer has lent weight to the idea that Nokia Belle Feature Pack 2 (FP2), what was to be known as Symbian Donna, will be the final update to the Symbian...
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The 808 wins out against four other top camera-toting smartphones
Billed as the 'last camera (phone) comparison of the year' (I can't promise that!), Basil Kronfli over at Recombu has put up a fairly comprehensive comparison shot collection for the Nokia 808...
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Will we ever get more form factors, more QWERTY?
Browsing through some articles from the last month, I was struck by one from Leigh Geary here, in which he echoes a theme close to my heart: he wants a choice of form factor, including, specifically,...
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How to sync email, contacts and calendar from Google, Outlook or Yahoo
Getting email and other personal information management (PIM) services running on Symbian has, historically, been a tricky prospect at times. Things have improved in recent years thanks to the...
View ArticleOne for motor sports fans: Testing Rich Recording to the max
I couldn't resist embedding the video below, combining motor sports (drag racing, in this case) with the smooth video and Rich Recording functionality on the Nokia 808 PureView. As the video maker...
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Review: QooRSS
If you want to know what's going on in the world then taking advantage of the wonder of RSS is an absolute must. Further to that, using a mobile platform that uses real widgets, like Symbian, just...
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Review: Belle Feature Pack 2
Symbian Belle - sorry, 'Nokia Belle', Feature Pack 2 has been available now for a few weeks and it's time to take stock. How many steps forward did this take the OS? And how many steps back? What's in...
View Article361 Degrees Podcast - "Apple, Maps & Rafe's 6 Year Rule"
The 361 Degrees Podcast has returned for a fourth season. In the first episode of the new season, we talk about Apple and industry cycles, asking whether the recent kerfuffle over Maps is indicative of...
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Nokia Q3 2012 results - smartphone sales down, but return to non-IFRS...
Nokia has released its Q3 2012 results, reporting an operating loss of €576 million, with net sales of €7.239 billion (down 19% YoY). Nokia's Devices and Services division's losses were €683 million....
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Nokia Battery Monitor 3.1 update and the mysteries of battery discharge
Nokia Battery Monitor has been something of a staple of the Symbian world in the last couple of years, providing a large-fonted, colourful guide to the state of your smartphone's battery. However, with...
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