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QWERTY phones "not being requested"? Poppycock!
In regard to form factors and physical QWERTY smartphones, there was an interesting quote from an interview with David Akinjise, a product manager at Nokia Germany, in which he stated that "Nokia...
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Todoteria author launches three financial/numeric apps
You may remember Todoteria, the Symbian client for the cloud-based task manager? Well, its developer has just written in with details of three new mini-applications, all free, and all with a financial...
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Porous silicon nanoparticles hold hope for improved lithium-ion battery capacity
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC), led by Chongwu Zhou, have developed a "new lithium-ion battery design that uses porous silicon nanoparticles in place of traditional graphite...
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Tweetian (v1.8) makes the jump to the 'new' Twitter APIs
File this application update as 'essential', if only because this new release of the insanely great Twitter client 'Tweetian' makes the jump to Twitter's new APIs. In other words, older versions of...
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IQ Challenge:Slider... isn't kidding
Fancy yourself as being pretty bright? Reckon you're good with spatial puzzles? Prepare to be demoralised. IQ Challenge:Slider is a Symbian implementation of the classic slider puzzles that the elder...
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Review: Tennis in the Face (iOS, Android AND Symbian)
Credit to 10tons for releasing their new smash (geddit?!) title on both iOS, Android and Symbian (still the three biggest mobile platforms by far in terms of active users, mind you) at more or less the...
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Lateral thinking - literally
What a great lateral thinking idea - why has no one done this before? Our smartphones all now have panorama functions either built-in or easily added using free software - but why not use this same...
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Poddi podcatcher gets better remote control support, loads of bug fixes
The Poddi podcatcher seems to be going from strength to strength, in a series of small updates that add up to sizeable improvements when you stop and look back. And, with podcatching being a basic...
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Dictate gets Maps integration, plus new ways of launching
The third party voice recognition utility Dictate has a long way to go before it matches the native competition on iOS or Android, but the range of functions is growing nicely. See below for the...
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Looking at active installed base: Symbian easily third, WP to overtake by 2014?
The trendy thing to talk about in the smartphone world is 'market share', of course. Thinking about the industry as 'business', its' all about current sales, how many units were shipped in the last few...
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naReeder brings extra swipes to RSS reading
Not that RSS readers are rare on Symbian, but I'd always welcome a little more choice. Especially when a whole new UI is introduced. The oddly named naReeder (a bastardisation of 'not another Reader')...
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Catch the Candy hits Symbian
Yet another port of a classic iPhone game, the Symbian leisure coffers are staying pretty full with the release of Catch the Candy now for all modern Symbian smartphones. It's physics-based, of course,...
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Blackjack Mobile - no more, no less
The G Soft team are knocking out the casual games at the moment - Blackjack Mobile 'does what it says on the tin', no more and no less, with no frills. You're straight into a standard Blackjack game...
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Control a battle-bot: Undroid provides arcade action and adventure on Symbian
After a series of ports of big name game titles from other platforms, I'm happy to report that this one has hit Symbian first. Undroid sees you controlling a lone weapon-equipped robot aboard an...
View ArticleAAS Insight #233: Games, QWERTY, Camera
In All About Symbian Insight number 233, Steve and Rafe start our news coverage by talking about a number of new game releases for Symbian. We also cover Nokia's new Webview widget (available via Beta...
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RIP Nokia Suite 3.7.21, time to switch to the official release?
It seems that, intentionally or (more probably) unintentionally, Nokia Suite's beta track has been left to expire. The next time you start your copy of Nokia Suite 3.7.21, you'll get an error message...
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Slimmer Xenon flashes to hit smartphones in 2014?
File this under 'Does this really work?' and 'That's an ambitious timescale', but Flash component manufacturer Xenon Technologies, together with researchers from Singapore's Nanyang Technological...
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CuteTube 1.4.2 matches DailyMotion changes and adds network proxy option
Video favourite CuteTube has just had a compatibility update to handle changes at Dailymotion's end, but there's also the addition of a network proxy option, see comments below. Good to see this...
View ArticleReview: Nokia Car Mode
It's a fair cop, Nokia Car Mode has been available for a while, and has been gradually introduced to more and more Symbian-powered handsets via the Store. But it's something that I'd never really used...
View ArticleShooting The Darkness - the Nokia 808 at its finest
Take some spandex, some strutting, some screeching voices and plenty of guitar at mind numbing volumes and what have you got? Both 'The Darkness' and a nightmare for a phone camera to capture. Unless...
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