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Last Notekeeper update adds new functions, speedier UI
In its last update before the Nokia Store freezes forever, the best (and only!) Evernote client for Symbian, Notekeeper, has been bumped up to v2.1.0, with API rate checks now handled 'gracefully' and...
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F1uptodate - the final, final Store update!
Yes, this is something of a small update, but it's an important one - the Formula 1 news and information app 'F1uptodate', one of the pioneers of in-app updating in the Symbian world in 2012/2013,...
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Nokia Weather officially discontinued
The eagle-eyed here will now that Nokia Weather, the widget and module from Maps Suite, has been playing up for the last few days, returning an error message. This has happened in the past and it's...
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How to: Back up your offline country maps for Nokia Maps
With components like Weather stopping working recently from the Nokia Maps suite in our Symbian smartphones, a very good question to ask yourself is what would happen if Nokia took its map servers...
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"Belle Feature Pack 3" CFW(!) for the Nokia 808
Consider this completely untested (by me), but it may well be of interest to any Nokia 808 owners still playing with various custom firmware and evaluating which is best for them. Dubbed "Belle Feature...
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Stunningly immersive panoramas from the Nokia 808 and Lumia 1020
Aided by both full resolution photos taken in his own Symbian and Windows Phone application, and clever stitching and presenting software, developer Harald Meyer has put up a couple of stunningly...
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How to transfer contacts from Symbian to Android/iPhone
Getting contacts from device to device is always something that throws up a few quirks - something usually gets lost, whichever method (sync, utility, SIM card, etc) you use. Yash over at...
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In the white corner: Nokia 808. In the yellow corner: Lumia Black
Yes, yes, these colour combinations are getting crazy.... With the Lumia 1020 (on Windows Phone) having started to get its long awaited 'Nokia Black' firmware update, and with the imaging enhancements...
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Podcatcher and CoverUp both now free forever
Sebastian Brannstrom's Podcatcher and CoverUp have been Symbian staples for years, each commercial applications and garnering decent sales as a result. With Symbian in its twilight days and in light of...
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A reminder of EDoF done right? Nokia 701 pics
Consider this a bit of a blast from the past - AAS reader Kurt Kaufman has sent in a nice batch of photos taken during 2013 on his Nokia 701. This was a fairly rare Symbian smartphone, released in 2011...
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Delight CFW v1.3 now out for the Nokia 808
Delight Custom Firmware (CFW) is very popular these days among hardcore Symbian enthusiasts, so it's noteworthy that the very latest build, v1.3, for the Nokia 808 just came out. See below for screens,...
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Nokia 808 to Samsung Galaxy S4 and back
AAS reader and (in this case) guest author Richard Trinkner (in the USA, unusually for a Symbian enthusiast) had an interesting tale to tell in a comment recently. So much so that he's now drafted a...
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Review: Nokia DC-19 Universal Portable USB Charger
Nokia's DC-19 Universal Portable USB Charger provides an easy way of topping up your phone's battery when out and about. That's something that seems to be an increasingly common requirement, a result...
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Google HD update delivers UI tweaks, split screen keyboard and fixes
You'll remember that I featured Google HD for Symbian a month ago, showing how it gave a viable way into official Gmail, Google Maps and more? It just got updated, with the changelog shown below....
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The end of the road for Swype on Symbian?
A new year dawns and it seems that the Swype (v2.x) Beta that many of us had been using on Belle FP2 devices like the Nokia 808 has stopped working properly. Reported faults include simple non...
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Symbian application updates in 2014
As everyone's now aware, the Nokia Store (for Symbian apps) is effectively frozen as of midnight tonight. Which means no updates, no new applications - nothing at all. Of course, a lot of the content...
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qooWeather final Store update, now premier homescreen weather option?
OK, it's a fair cop, v4.3.4 of qooWeather is a trivial update, switching the weather forecast in a slightly more timely fashion as the days advance, but it's also significant in that it's effectively...
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What To Do After The Nokia Store-pocalypse
With the disclaimer that the article contains several links back to this very site(!), do note a helpful piece by Alvin Wong here on the current state of the Symbian ecosystem and what you can do to...
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The Nokia 808 PureView takes on two DSLRs and a compact
The Nokia 808 may now be almost two years old and effectively obsolete as a commercial product, but that hasn't stopped it being enjoyed by many and still used in interesting photographic comparisons....
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WhatsApp Scheduler lets you control WhatsApp properly
WhatsApp is a greedy application, likes to take over control of your SIM card and phone number (albeit for logical reasons) and also needs a little control over when it's allowed to run, check for new...
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