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Treasures of Montezuma 2 mini review
If you're a fan of the Columns genre, you might want to take a look at Treasures of Montezuma 2. The game takes the genre, but adds special jewel incrusted tiles that all have to be cleared, against...
View ArticleThe 808 as you've never seen it before: dismantled before your eyes
YouTuber LE55ONS is rightly famous for a string of 'how to' dismantling/repair videos on smartphones and his latest is the Nokia 808 PureView, embedded below, showing how to take out just about every...
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Nokia surprises with better than expected preliminary Q4 2012 results
Nokia today announced that its Q4 2012 results will be better than previously expected, with the key Devices & Services division's non-IFRS operating margin expected to be between break even and 2...
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Wrap The Box mini review
Wrap The Box is an action game that - on first impressions - looks an awful lot like Fruit Ninja. Boxes continually come along on a conveyer belt, that you have to tape up by swiping on the screen....
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A transparent and simple battery widget
If you love widgets and you're paranoid about your battery level, then Transparent Battery Widget might be something of interest for you. The application for this widget is pretty simple, there is a...
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MeeGo Maximo - hints of MeeGo, hints of Retro, lots of cool
Having been playing a lot (in my top 5!) with MeeGo and the Nokia N9 recently (yes, yes, another 'dead' OS), I thought I'd look again at themes for Symbian that had been inspired by MeeGo and was...
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Logo Quiz comes to Symbian... but there's a small glitch
Yes, your eyes don't deceive you - one of the more popular Android games is now available for Symbian (in clone form, at least) and for free (with some caveats below). In Logo Quiz, you'll rack your...
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Swype updated to cure timeout issue
Swype, the gesture based alternative keyboard for Symbian, has been upgraded at Nokia Beta Labs to a new version which has been made to fix the timeout problem that affected the previous version. The...
View ArticleWhen 2009's disaster phone ticks far more boxes than 2013's flagships?
Not wishing to embarrass the current crop of 1080p, 5"-screened, quad core-processored superphones, but in continuing to play with something altogether older and humbler, I can't help but reflect that...
View ArticleThe PureView Road to Hell
What do you get when you approach an intimate rock gig with not one but two 'PureView' phones? A chance to create a two-camera video edit with pretty good quality, that's what. In this case, a cover of...
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Bubble Unlock brings a multi-function lockscreen to Symbian
One of the features of the lockscreens on many (though not all) Android smartphones is that you can swipe in different directions in order to unlock the touchscreen and go straight to an application....
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The history of augmented reality and a City Lens reminder
It's a fair cop, this is a fairly insubstantial link of interest for All About Symbian for a Monday morning - but it does give me an excuse to remind people about my walk through of getting augmented...
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Puff less with SmokeCounter
Given that the collective All About team have never smoked a cigarette in our lives (as far as I know), I drew the short straw cigarette to look at SmokeCounter for Symbian. It's a lifestyle...
View ArticleAAS Insight #231: Internals and Symbian Q4 2012 shipments
In All About Symbian Insight number 230, Steve and Rafe talk about the former's recent speaker-related Nokia 808 adventures (leading to a more general discussion of smartphone internals). We also cover...
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Air Music - channel your inner R2D2?
I walked round the kitchen several times before my wife said "What IS that wierd bleeping noise?" "Ah", I said, "that'll be Air Music. It responds to accelerometer movement in the phone and converts...
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foursquare for Symbian fixes SSH woes
foursquare for Symbian has always been a very polished piece of work, with almost all 4sq features and a modern interface, including NFC checkins where appropriate if your phone has this functionality....
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The N95 helps out a poorly 808 PureView(!)
Look away if you have a nervous disposition(!) but below is a heart warming tale of how an ageing Nokia N95 classic came to the rescue of my ailing Nokia 808 PureView - and an observation that the...
View Article23 minutes of Juha Alakarhu on all things Nokia, imaging and PureView
No, don't switch off just because it's 23 minutes long and is presented in a Finnish accent! Nokia's new head of digital imaging, Juha Alakarhu, sits down with MobileSyrup here to talk over the two...
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Kinoni Remote Desktop gives direct Windows PC access
The story so far: Kinoni are the company behind products like EpocCam, passing through video from your phone to your desktop - so we know they're pretty hot on phone-desktop video streaming. Next up, a...
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PhotoFunia gets UI overhaul, new effects, higher resolution output
You remember PhotoFunia from my review earlier this year? Essentially a library of composite effects to apply to your photos, it has now had a big v3.0 overhaul - some screens and links below. Still a...
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