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The Nokia 808 - what is it worth?
Guest writer Stuart Peters provokes thought of the (higher than expected?) worth of a Nokia 808 PureView, 'the ultimate Symbian phone', in 2015. See below for his take on the 808 and a modern approach...
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cuteTube reborn, version 2, working with new APIs
I reported a while back that cuteTube had ceased working because of YouTube's deprecation of its v2 APIs - happily I can now report that the next-gen CuteTube 2 is now available and works fully with...
View ArticleLive rock music video capture comparison: a 6-way test
In this specific group test. I look at capturing high decibel music on a variety of new and classic smartphone cameras, four of which also have OIS to help keep the picture steady too. Add in low light...
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808 PureView: red to white and back to red
Andy Hagon will be well known to readers of this site. Partly because he was the guy who rashly sold off his very rare red Nokia 808 PureView. But not to worry, because he bought a replacement white...
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Fahrplan updates - services, bug-fixes, improvements
Fahrplan is a third party alternative to Nokia/HERE's Public Transport and has been consistently updated over the last few years, I've done a summary of the changes below. And you can grab it in the...
View ArticleThat phone is amazing - where can I buy it? Err.. it's old and you can't!
Written by me over at AAWP about the Lumia 1020, CBD, Xenon and PureView zoom, you won't be surprised to note that all the points made apply equally to the Nokia N8 and 808 PureView, so I thought I'd...
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The Nokia 808 PureView - old, but not obsolete. Kitting it out.
In another guest article from Stuart Peters, he runs over some of the software and hardware accessories that keep his Nokia 808 a 'hero' device, even in 2015. What do you think of his picks? Dare you...
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More and more commercial Symbian games now free
As part of ruthlessly ripping through my Curated Symbian Games Store page, and removing all links to the defunct Nokia/Ovi Store (RIP), I noticed that quite a few previously commercial games are now...
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How to set up a new mailbox in 2015 on Symbian/S60
One of the elements of the Symbian 'experience' that broke recently was the email set-up process, with the shutting down of Nokia's email configuration server. Effectively, if a new user (or an...
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GagBook brings 9GAG to Symbian
9GAG is a renowned source of funny, ironic and pointed graphics, GIFs and jokes - and now it's available on Symbian, thanks to a new third party client, GagBook. It's not a 100% fill rate for GIFs...
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How to get location favourites from Nokia Maps to Microsoft Maps
Guest author Massis Sirapian takes mapping fans of a geeky nature through the process of getting Nokia Maps favourites on a Symbian smartphone to Microsoft Maps on a desktop (Windows 8.1 or 10) - and...
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Carthago, a Symbian car2go/Moovel client...
Just a quick note to highlight Carthago, a car2go-Moovel app for Symbian, coincidentally updated to version 7.56i today. This 'reestablishes access to car-location maps for existing users'. If you...
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FBReader, Situations, QuasarMX and Droper all hit the AppList Store
Sorry folks, no time to delve into mini-reviews/recaps of these applications, but I did want to highlight that they've all been added to the AppList Store for Symbian this week. See below for some...
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The difference a decade makes: Updates
The next time you look at your on-device application store, with a progress bar showing that an update to, say, Photos is taking an outrageous 30 seconds to apply, here's a cautionary data point from a...
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Adding the Xperia Z5: the Nokia cameraphone classics 808/1020/930, all vs...
My last camera phone comparison for over a month, I promise(!), the arrival of the much-praised (in terms of its imaging) Xperia Z5 prompted another comparison across a range of test shots against the...
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Iterating on zoom: smartphone approaches through the years...
Almost as soon as cameras started to arrive on smartphones (the Nokia 7650 was the first - I still have mine!), bright minds started to wonder if it would be possible to not only snap a scene, but...
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cuteRadio issues fixed, with new API - downtime begone!
cuteRadio is the de facto best independent Internet Radio application on Symbian - yet it's been down for much of the last few months, thanks to issues with the service it had been using. Happily,...
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Pinnacle Studio 19 and Nero Video 2016 - editing smartphone-shot video on...
Editing smartphone-shot video on a Windows PC has rarely been without quirks. There are the major commercial editing systems of days gone by (represented here by Pinnacle Studio 19) and then there were...
View ArticleSymbian over the air and Nokia Suite updates officially terminated
Unsurprisingly, the end of Symbian as a viable smartphone platform just got even closer, with Microsoft (Symbian's new owners after the Nokia Devices buy-out) shutting down all the servers handling...
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The Nokia Wi-fi connectivity test server now offline, 'Limited Connectivity'...
If you've seen the odd error message recently on a Symbian smartphone, at least when using it on Wi-fi, it's because Nokia's longstanding connectivity-test.ext.nokia.com server is now offline, the...
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