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Oppo Find 7 and a 50MP camera? No need for Nokia's 41MP camera phones to...
Oh, the Internet loves a good headline. No, not mine above, but dropping that the newly announced Oppo Find 7 can take 50 megapixel photos. I mean, that's got to be better than Nokia's 41MP on the 808...
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How to sync Symbian Contacts and Calendar with Google in 2014
One of the services which many of us had relied on for ages, Microsoft Exchange sync of PIM data with Google, stopped working for most of us back in 2013 (though some with paid Google Apps accounts may...
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FastTube now free and freed from the Nokia Store... but last of the line?
Good news and bad news on the FastTube front. This popular YouTube video downloader/client has been updated - and seems to be completely free nowadays (grab it while you can, etc.). On the other hand,...
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Stylish weather for all, from the BBC - one bookmark, job done
The BBC is on a roll at the moment. After the earlier responsive eLearning site, there's now a whole new responsive take on the BBC's famous weather service, complete with scrolling, swipeable day and...
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User review: a possible Nokia 808 battery bargain?
AAS reader Tony Hammond has gone where I for one fear to tread, and that's a journey into the world of ridiculously cheap batteries. And, while I'd guess that most of these aren't worth even looking at...
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Matching what your eyes see: PureView and a decent camera in your smartphone
No, not quite the same as Nokia's famous "More than your eyes can see"(! here's that pop video) - more, in this case, matching what your eyes can see. As someone who swaps devices on a fairly regular...
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The 2014 Symbian Store, 'AppList', gets fix-ups and rollover stats
Everyone will have seen that there's a new, heavily curated Symbian Store client for 2014. In beta at the moment, but fully useable. I reported in detail on its background and launch here. And it just...
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PureView cross-platform smartphone camera shootouts and data points
If there's anyone who strolls around with more smartphone and their cameras than me, it's Marc from the PureView club. He's currently packing the Nokia 808 PureView (naturally), the Nokia Lumia 1020,...
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Hot: Nokia 818 leaks out, the 1020 leapfrogged?
File this under 'unconfirmed', but it appears that the original Nokia PureView device, the 808, running Symbian, is about to get a successor, leapfrogging the 1020 on Windows Phone. This has caught...
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Pocket Transit - new surveyor's tool for Symbian
New to me on Symbian is Pocket Transit, free for all devices in the AppList Store. No, it's nothing to do with public transport and is, in fact, a Geological and Engineering Compass. In other words, a...
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UniPlaner, an AppList exclusive, manage your studies and school schedule
Of note in the new Symbian applications appearing daily in AppList is one written by AppList's own developer, apparently for his own use as a university student. UniPlaner fairly slick, albeit with a...
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WhiteList Mobile and BlackList Mobile now free for Symbian
Yep, if you haven't already got AppList installed on your modern Symbian device then you're missing out - new and revived applications are being added every single day to this new, 2014 application...
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Lightbulb, a client for Facebook Chat and Google Talk
Anyone here use Facebook Chat or Google Talk? Or indeed any other XMPP-based service? Have a look at Lightbulb, a relatively new IM client for Symbian that never made it to the Nokia Store back in the...
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ClipBook, the multi-item Symbian clipboard manager
It's a fair cop, ClipBook has been in the Nokia Store for months and we never spotted it. Then the Store got frozen and AppList started highlighting top Symbian apps - and ClipBook has suddenly got our...
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Why 186 million Symbian smartphones make perfect surveillance cameras
The Gotya surveillance application for Symbian has been covered here on AAS before, but I did note a blog post yesterday from the developers pointing out the possible number of available devices for...
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eRBook, Readability for Symbian
Also new in AppList and also, apparently, available in the frozen Nokia Store and so far not ever covered on AAS, is eRBook, a Readability (née Read It Later) client for Symbian. The idea is that you...
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CloseMaps 'does what it says on the tin'
One of the 'smoke and mirrors' aspects of Symbian which can catch you out is the way the Maps subsystem is integrated into the OS. For the most part, this gives seamless and quick access to mapping and...
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AppList fixes and extra translations
Anyone starting AppList today may be puzzled by an update to the popular Symbian app store client with a completely blank changelog! This, it turns out, is a bug in the previous version (these things...
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How to: The Art of Xenon
Having a 'proper' Xenon flash in your smartphone (we're talking Nokia 808 and Lumia 1020 here) doesn't necessarily give you better low light shots of people - you have to know how to use the technology...
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Whatsapp updates continue, redesigned chat UI
Whatsapp, despite being a pretty core Symbian application for many people, hasn't been (consistently) in the Nokia Store for many months, so the freezing of the latter didn't cause it to skip a beat....
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