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The mobile app super league - how do Windows Phone 8 and Symbian compare?
We hear time and time again how iOS and Android are streets ahead of the competition in terms of availability of applications and I've even done a few repostes of my own, a while ago. Time for a new...
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Get the Android lockscreen with Dunlock
Whether you are thinking of moving onto Android after your current device or you are finding yourself feeling rather envious of your Android toting friends, now might be the time to start making your...
View ArticleNokia sheds 300 IT jobs as final stage of June 2012 job losses
Nokia has announced it plans to streamline its IT organisation in order to "increase operational efficiency and reduce operating costs". As a result of the planned changes Nokia will transfer certain...
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Ski Resorts Webcams
If you're an enthusiastic skier then you probably spend half your life glued to the various resort webcams anyway, looking at the state of the snow and wondering whether it's worth making the trip up...
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The Nokia 808 PureView takes on the Samsung Galaxy Camera
Yep, a battle royal and a sumptuous read from the GSM Arena folks. They keep an 808 around their offices as 'the gold standard in mobile phone imaging', which means that they actually know how to use...
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Review: Fantasy Kingdom Defence
Tower Defence, it's a genre of game that everyone in the All About Symbian office seems happy for me to take care of; I don't know why, but I'm not complaining. Just when I thought I'd seen everything...
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Belle Extra Buttons gets big UI update
'Belle Extra Buttons' overlays new icons and functions onto the standard Symbian Belle homescreen toolbar, as you might have guessed from the name. It's a kludge, admittedly, but a rather cool one and...
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Mobizy for mobile business management on Symbian and everything else
Mobizy is a service for small businesses to handle collaborative activities such as scheduling, contact management and notes. Unusually, it's available every mobile platform you can think of: Symbian,...
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Nokia QWERTY heaven
Andy Hagon is at it again. One of the few enthusiasts around the globe who can reminisce with real authority on Nokia hardware in general and QWERTY input in particular. In this new feature (grab a...
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Steve's attempted switch-over from Symbian to WP8 and the Lumia 920
I've been trying to live with Nokia's 'new' platform, Windows Phone 8, and the camera-specialist Lumia 920 in particular, and, given my Symbian background, I thought readers here might like to see my...
View ArticleSoftware stabilisation on the Nokia 808, plus 2010 as a line in the sand...
I occasionally embed an episode from my Phones Show video podcast when it's directly relevant to readers here. In this case, I was looking at the issue of software-based video stabilisation, with...
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Review: Contre Jour
This is 2013, a full two years after Symbian was given its marching orders, yet we still see some major games being released for the hundreds of millions of existing Symbian users. Thankfully. The...
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qMetro: Subway maps of the world
There are a few 'metro' (tube) applications around, but always room for one more, especially a general purpose utility into which you can load your local tube system. 'qMetro: Subway maps of the world'...
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Another way to make Symbian look like MeeGo
Calling all MeeGo fans, MeeGo Evolved by Blade is yet another theme for your Symbian device, nice to have for when you start to wistfully wonder what had happened if Nokia had stuck with the Linux...
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Boggle your mind with 8 Over 12
I like puzzle games. Moreover, I like puzzle games I can eventually work out. 8 over 12 (and it's numerically lesser cousins) is a puzzle that has me stumped. In this game you have 8 white discs that...
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The 'h' word... and the top 10 beautiful clock widgets and system mods
Given that it's almost two years since Nokia gave Symbian an End of Life and that it's unlikely we'll see many more firmware updates for our phones, I think we can relax a few self-imposed rules on...
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The 808 - Symbian smartphone without compromise
"Not another article singing the praises of the Nokia 808 PureView?", I hear you cry. Well, yes, but a thought occurred to me as I rooted through my growing Symbian hardware archive, looking for...
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Beta WLAN Software Update now rolled out to Belle Refresh too
Nokia Beta Labs has proved that development and support for Symbian isn't quite done yet, with the roll out of the WLAN Software Update to older phones, in this case the N8, E7, C7, C6-01, E6, X7 and...
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Opera Mini gets major new version (7.1)
Opera Mini, everybody's 'go to' web browser on Symbian when there's the slightest whiff of a shortage of bandwidth, has had a major update, from 7.03 to 7.10, screenshotted below. Aside from UI tweaks...
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Black Pro Belle Transparent & Galaxy Extreme Reloaded HD
Yes, yes, Arjun Arora's theme names are getting a little pretentious(!), but the themes themselves are pretty nice, with the two premium titles Black Pro Belle Transparent & Galaxy Extreme Reloaded...
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