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Line of Attack and how not to do billing
Line of Attack is a strategy game that mirrors the futility of tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses) and the territorial nature of Othello (Reversi). The object of the game is to score points by creating...
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Some free Christmas theme options for Symbian
Everyone loves a good theme at Christmas. Something to help you feel thoroughly in the mood for the holiday and celebrations. At least, that's the theory! If you'd like your Symbian smartphone to...
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An alternative data counter
If you're on a metered data plan, having a widget to let you know how much data you've used would be very handy. Fortunately, a data counter and widget was introduced with Nokia Belle Refresh. However,...
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Dynamite Fishing 2 is a blast
Time for some Friday afternoon silliness. Dynamite Fishing 2's title leaves nothing to the imagination. You play a stereotypical American redneck, whom the tutorial pulls no punches in mocking. Perhaps...
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Delaware court rules that Apple is infringing on Nokia and Sony patents
The latest news in the mobile patent world is that a US court in Delaware has reached a unanimous verdict that Apple infringed on three patents owned by MobileMedia Idea. MobileMedia Idea is a...
View ArticleGoogle Sync server changes announced: how will it impact you?
Google has announced the end of life for Google Sync, which was designed to give access to Gmail, Google Calendar and Conatcts via Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol. Starting from January 30th...
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Flagship head to head: Nokia 808 vs Lumia 920 vs Google Nexus 4
In my latest comparison, I take the Lumia 920, which I've now used for a month, the Nokia 808, which recently had its upgrade to Belle FP2, and the hot-off-the-press Google Nexus 4, an Android flagship...
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Music Speed Changer a very useful practice tool
Pitched (see what I did there?) at anyone wanting to mess around with the speed or pitch of audio files, Harald Meyer's latest little utility is of most use to musicians trying to match a live piece...
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Santa Presents perfect for keeping five year olds quiet over the holiday?
It's important, when assessing a 'casual game' to work out who it's aimed at. Sometimes it's adults - a good example is Micropool - soemthing which can while away a few minutes while waiting in line in...
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FlickrUp updated and improved
You may remember ourĀ review of FlickrUp, which brought the best Flickr experience Symbian has seen to date. Well, developerĀ Abhishek KumarĀ has taken his original creation and brought it up to date with...
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Review: SkyFiles Pro
We all know how useful it can be to have access to our files in the cloud, not just for sharing but for having access to a much larger library of data than we would normally carry on our mobile...
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Dictate hits v2.1, still at novelty status?
Following our initial news story, I was interested to see that voice recognition utility Dictate has persevered and evolved, with version 2.1 now allowing a wider range of actions, more languages, and...
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(Run like) The Wolf HD - smooth but hard
Deciding whether to highlight a game on All About Symbian often depends on how I get on with it. But I'll make an exception here - The Wolf HD is polished and smooth and has clearly had some love...
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Investigating the text input wars - which is fastest of all?
You can't move in our corners of the Internet without some debate springing up about which is best: hardware keys, virtual keys, T9 or Swype. It's almost a religious thing, with devotees of one...
View Article361 Degrees Podcast - "Christmas Special"
The eight episode of the fourth season of the 361 Degrees Podcast is something of a Christmas special. Each of the team, with apologies to Father Christmas, nominate one mobile related company or news...
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Defuse The Bomb - Mastermind with explosives!
Remember the old Mastermind board game, where you had to guess combinations of colours and were told various information about each guess, gradually deducing what the 'correct' combination was? Now...
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Updating the 'Curated Symbian Application Store'
You may remember that, fed up with reams of (in my opinion) novelty/niche/poor items being added to the Nokia Store (other mobile stores are just as bad, note), I created theĀ Curated Symbian StoreĀ a...
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15 things from January 2011 - how did Nokia do?
Back in January 2011, almost two years ago, and just before the infamous decision by new CEO Stephen Elop to switch Nokia's strategy away from Symbian and Meego and towards Windows Phone, I identified...
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MineSweeper is clean, futuristic and free
MineSweeper remains a classic logic game that's perfect for whiling away time on long journeys or unwinding before bed. And this new version, while free of gimmicks and frills, is also free of ads or...
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Turn your smartphone into a Mobile Microphone
Now why on earth hasn't someone thought of this before? Pico Brothers have hit upon yet another use for your smartphone - as a high quality real time microphone. Now, we all know you can record (or...
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