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Drawing a line in the sand: N97 owners can have useable firmware or Qt - but...
Herewith a cautionary and hopefully interesting tale. I loved the possibilities of the Nokia N97 form factor, back in the day (2009). Huge swappable battery, FM transmitter, full QWERTY keyboard,...
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How to easily avoid blown out highlights in Nokia 808 PureView photos
This is somewhat controversial, but ever since I started using the Nokia 808 PureView, I've found its dynamic range to appear poor in certain situations, though it's often been hard to pin down....
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A possible fix for wi-fi dropouts in Symbian smartphones?
The story so far: some Symbian^3/Anna/Belle smartphones have been plagued with Wi-fi dropouts, ruining video streaming and scuppering Podcatcher. I tried to crowd source a fix recently, which gave me...
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Qt now fully part of Digia
We reported in August that Digia was to acquire the Qt development framework from Nokia. As of today, the handover has been completed. Digia has a history of involvement with Qt and so the transition...
View ArticleOf battery drain and crazily high connection speeds
Entitled 'Everything Everywhere's 4G: Why I'm sitting this one out', there's an interesting piece here by the reliably controversial Andrew Orlowski, talking about the extra battery drain involved with...
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Why I'd take an Nokia 808 PureView over an Apple iPhone 5: two flagships...
Looking at the Nokia 808 PureView in my hand and writing up a big multi-platform comparison piece for next week, it struck me that the look and dimensions (camera hump aside) of the 808 and iPhone 5's...
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Sensor sizes and the Nokia 808 PureView
I can't resist photo-geek porn, you know. Gory shots of the internals of phone cameras, in this case looking at the raw sensor of the Nokia 808 PureView in size contrast to other items of interest. To...
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The Nokia 808 - A Love Story
With references to the future, flying cars and rabbits out of the proverbial hat, this is a great (though long) read from Ntutu Letseka, a veritable essay on what makes the Nokia 808 PureView special,...
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Portable charger recommendations
Even though batteries are getting larger, so are the demands being put upon them by smartphones. One of the solutions to keeping your smartphone charged while away from a mains socket is to use a...
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Maps vs Maps: Apple vs Nokia
The recent launch of iOS 6 on the iPhone 5 (and older devices), together with the first release of Apple's smartphone mapping and navigation solution, has raised some questions over the quality (or...
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Li-Ion vs Li-Poly, plus how do Lithium batteries work anyway?
Battery technology underpins all of our mobile devices, yet we take it for granted. Matters are made worse for the curious souls who try to find out more because the information available online about...
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Nokia's Asha Touch now 'officially' a 'smartphone' platform
Back in the day, a 'smartphone' was something which ran a proper multitasking OS and which was extensible with extra applications. We then had the likes of the original iPhone (no multitasking, no...
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Don't Supersize my Smartphone
Supersizing is the new trend in the mobile world. The adage of 'bigger is better' seems to be the guiding principle in this era of phone design. The Android market has seen larger and larger devices,...
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How to: Pimping the Nokia E6 Communicator
Yes, yes, I just used the 'C' word to describe the Nokia E6... In the latest in my 'pimping' series, here's how to get the very most from Nokia's only qwerty candybar of the modern Symbian generation,...
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Thai Sunset - a portrait of an ultimate Nokia 808 photo?
Ever seen a great camera phone-taken photo posted on Twitter or similar and wondered just what it takes to get such a great shot? I saw the photo embedded below and was very taken with it. Under what...
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The Nokia 808 PureView gets a Mugen 3000mAh 'facelift'
You know Mugen - those crazy accessory makers who love to put insanely big batteries in our Symbian smartphones, along with insanely bulbous replacement battery covers? Well, they have just announced a...
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Nokia Lumia 920 and 808 PureView phones duel in low light shootout
In what seems to have started as a sneak peek test of the Nokia Lumia 920 in a tnkgrl guerilla raid on Nokia's plants in Finland, the scope of her enquiries seems to have grown. This being Myriam...
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Nokia sets up Experience and Innovation Center in Beijing
In what appears to be an official press release in China, Nokia has announced that it "will build an experience innovation center in Beijing to provide a mobile Internet entrepreneurial solutions...
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Nokia Store passes 16 million downloads a day
Nokia Store, the application and game download service for Nokia's Symbian and Series 40 devices, now serves more than 16 million downloads a day and has reached a cumulative total of 6 billion...
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Pitching F2.0, Optical Image Stabilisation and 'faster, brighter' LED flash...
Now, there's an element of guesswork in what follows, but I did want to address the issue of camera phone design, specifically the use of PureView 'phase 2' for the new Nokia Lumia 920, using Optical...
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