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Qperience and the switch from Symbian to Android development
In a guest editorial, Antti Lipponen from Finnish developers Qperience takes us through the company's history and eventual decision to switch from Symbian to Android for their games, making use of the...
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UK consumer protection group decrees guidelines for IAPs by April 1st
Debate over IAPs (In App Purchase) has raged here on the 'All About' sites over the last six months, with my passionate rant against IAP mis-use and Ewan's equally passionate decree that IAPs were the...
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UTP's best phone-shot photos in 2013
Yes, yes, a link to a page with nothing but photos. But a) it's Friday, and b) the photos are all mobile-only and rather impressive. All are taken by the Unleash The Phones crew, and naturally includes...
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The next thing to break: Microsoft Exchange sync?
Sometimes an AAS news or flow item is as much about the community gathering data points as it is about delivering hard and fast news. That's very much the case here, with many conflicting reports...
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Delight custom firmware for the Nokia E7 now available
Since Delight custom firmwares came onto the Symbian scene, the most asked question of all was: when will this come to the Nokia E7 Communicator? With its full width fold out QWERTY keyboard, the E7...
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All Benarom games now free
Good to see yet another developer seeing sense in Symbian's twilight years and making his applications free to all, without ads. Â In this case it's Benarom Games, developers of BR Pipes Qt (which I...
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Volunteers needed to help with (post-Nokia) Symbian app store and client
February 2014 and it's time to break silence on a skunk works project to provide an alternative to the now-frozen Nokia Store client/system. The client provides a way to download applications via...
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Say hello to Three Sixty, the official HERE blog
HERE, Nokia's location business, has launched a new blog, Three Sixty, in order to provide information about HERE's activities and related location topics. Describing the blog as a "conversation...
View ArticleDelight CFW hits *some* Nokia C6-01 handsets
If you have an ageing Nokia C6-01 and fancy getting in on the Delight custom firmware action then you may (or may not) be in luck. There's now a build for C6-01s with product code RM-718 - other C6-01s...
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Low light photo tips and examples
Courtesy of the PureView Club, I was impressed by the range of examples of low light photos taken by Javier Garcia Gonzalo, who clearly specialises in them. He does a good job of explaining what he's...
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Nokia camera phone examples through the ages: Nokia 7650 to Lumia 1020
Richard Dorman has been one of the leading Nokia camera phone photographers for several years, with some groundbreaking long exposures of water in particular - and in this detailed blog post he goes...
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Self-updating, post-signing, post-Store - MusiKloud example
As we reported at the end of 2013, MusiKloud's last official update brought in over-the-air, ex-Store updating. But we hadn't seen it in action - we've now had an official update to v1.5.2, fixing the...
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Eight brings Windows Phone's tiles to Symbian
I know, I know, why would you want to make Symbian look like Windows Phone 8? Especially in view of the political/emotional issues involved (did you spot that it's almost exactly three years since that...
View ArticleAAS Insight #246: AppList and three years on
In All About Symbian Insight 246, hosted by Steve and Rafe, we start by reviewing the state of Symbian with regard to signing, which leads to news of the forthcoming curated on-device app store...
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The Nokia 808 gets its latest Delightful lease of life, restored PIM sync
Huge respect to the Delight CFW team for getting a whole new firmware out for the Nokia 808 PureView, with a sizeable changelog, including the all-important SSL certificate pop-up fix, meaning that...
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Blob for Symbian updated to get round Blogger API changes
One of the very few Wordpress and Blogger clients for Symbian, Blob, has been updated to work again with the latter blogging platform in order to work around API changes at Blogger's end. Details and...
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Delight hits the other major Symbian Belle FP2 device: Nokia 701!
This is a Delight custom firmware release that many have been asking for - the Nokia 701. This device didn't get released as widely as the Nokia 808 but has many positive attributes, as listed here in...
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Foursquare for Symbian gets surprise update?
It seems that external companies can still wangle the odd Nokia Store update, if the need is urgent, with an update being pushed out, six weeks after the official Nokia Store freezing, for the official...
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Skype for Symbian officially 'removed'
As regular readers will know, Skype for Symbian has been in an uncertain state for around two years, with the official (somewhat underwhelming) client unchanged and periodically available in the Nokia...
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Ultimate smartphone/camera add-on head to head: Nokia 808 and Lumia 1020 vs...
I didn't think this comparison would happen, due to the QX-100's price and availability, but we've been kindly loaned one and I set out to pitch it, chained to an Android smartphone, against the best...
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