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Gently hacking the N8 Panorama application onto the 808 PureView
So you have a Nokia 808 - and you want to shoot a panorama? Yes, you could utterly cheat, as I did recently, but if you want the real thing then you'll be disappointed by the lack of an official...
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Nokia BH-121 is an NFC enabled Stereo Bluetooth Headset
Nokia has announced the BH-121, a new NFC-enabled Bluetooth Stereo Headset, optimised for use with Nokia's feature phones and smartphones. The accessory combines a square control unit, measuring 39 x...
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Work starts on an alternate Store
File this under 'pie in the sky' if you will, but it's good to see people starting to think about a way forwards for a proper, interactive Symbian app store once Nokia has pulled the rug from its own...
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Delight custom firmware hits the Nokia 700 too
With Nokia having long since abandoned its firmware upgrading programme for all its Symbian-powered devices, custom firmwares are now very much where the action is. The Delight series is one of the...
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ThOR update gains it new features and self-sustaining updates
It's been almost two months since the last update to the news reader ThOR, but it's back and, like a few other Symbian classics, appears to be self-updating for the future - no Nokia Store...
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Learning to live with a sealed design? Yes. Loving it? Not really, but....
Most readers know me as someone prepared to enter into debate on the subjects of form factor and smartphone design, but also having my own distinct preferences. You'll remember an in depth feature I...
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A fresh experience flashing Delight onto the 808
Ow Kah Leong has contributed several little pieces for AAS over the last few years - in this short feature he gives into temptation and finally flashes the Delight custom firmware onto his beloved...
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Twitter Mobile in your browser for 2014
Much publicised over the Internet has been Twitter's efforts to bring a consistent facelifted experience across all its official client for Android, iOS and even Windows Phone. What's not known as well...
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The very last CuteTube update.... in the Nokia Store
You'll remember that, a week ago, we had an update to YouTube client CuteTube, introducing a system for updating itself outside of the soon-to-be-frozen Nokia Store? This hasn't been switched on at the...
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Asha Normandy - an Android powered phone from Nokia?
The Verge reports that Nokia has been building an Android powered phone, one that is aimed at the low-end of the market, equivalent to the company's current Asha feature phone products. The phone,...
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Astrophotography with the Nokia N8 and Lumia 925
While the N8 is ancient in the smartphone world, it still has an impressive camera, with native 12MP output. So much so, that it's still the benchmark by which we at All About Towers judge all other...
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PhoNetInfo adds new status functionality
PhoNetInfo has been my Symbian diagnostic tool of choice for several years now - and it just got updated, sneaking in a patch before the Nokia Store freezes over forever... Version 4.2 adds SMS and...
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One last hurrah - Situations v2 available - and free!
The ground breaking Situations has been one of the most respected Symbian utilities for years, going commercial a couple of years ago but resurfacing today with one last 'v2' update, direct from the...
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How to: understand camera phone megapixel resolutions
Imaging enthusiasts like me live and breathe resolutions and jargon like 'oversampling' and 'Back Side Illumination', but it's easy to lose track of more mundane questions and issues from those for...
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'FilePLAY music player' assured for 2014, adds in-app updating
FilePLAY is a music application that hasn't been covered before on AAS, but it's interesting in that it handles tracks by folder rather than by metadata like album and artist. Of course, if your...
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Gravity - the multi-update-track story
Gravity is possibly the best known Symbian client for Twitter, Facebook and other online services - the developer has been a bit quiet during 2013, but there has been some progress and I was interested...
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Delight custom firmware for the Nokia E7 and X7 is... planned!
I couldn't help but mention in passing on AAS that we're assisting the compilers of the popular Delight custom firmware in porting it across to the Nokia E7 communicator and the media-centric Nokia X7....
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Smartphone storage - how low can you go?
Perhaps matching the debate on sealed vs replaceable batteries as a design trend for our time is that of sealed memory. In other words, flash storage for applications, files, documents and media, which...
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Don't reset your phone if you need Nokia Public Transport
It probably shouldn't come as a surprise by now, but some parts of Nokia's Symbian platform support are starting to crumble. This is just a heads-up that if you like using Nokia Public Transport then...
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MusiKloud's final Store incarnation and OTA updating
As previously reported, the third party Soundcloud client for Symbian, MusiKloud has now achieved 'sentience'. Or, at least, along with a number of other Symbian applications, can check for updates and...
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