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Nokia updates the maps for its Symbian Maps Suite
Nokia regularly issues offline map updates for its smartphone platforms, picking up corrections, new roads, new traffic permissions and more. Proving yet again that the platform isn't 'dead', such an...
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The Smartphone Quiz: how much of a phone geek are you?
It has to be said that the very fact that you're reading this site means that you're a bit of a phone geek. But exactly how much? Is your life well balanced or are you a true blue mobile fanatic? Not...
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Get a marksmanship workout in Boot Camp
Now don't get all sniffy when I tell you that this 'sniper'-style title is written in Java - it's true that there's no multi-touch, meaning that you can't be aiming and firing at the same time, i.e....
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Situations adds new conditions, new actions
Situations is perhaps one of the best loved Symbian utilities, triggering off factors around you (e.g. network cell, location, time of day) and performing a number of actions/settings of your choice....
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CameraPro Qt gets another bump, with menu customisation
Harald Meyer's camera-focussed(!) apps on Symbian are somewhat legendary, finding ways to capture shots with settings and combinations that aren't available with the built-in Camera applications....
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Telephony update for the Nokia 808 and other Belle FP2
The updates keep on coming for Symbian, it seems... Rolling out right now through Software Update on the Nokia 808 PureView and Nokia 701 is a slightly mysterious 'Telephony Update', bringing "quality...
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From Scroll and Select to Super Slick - but what if...?
You'll remember the 'Scroll and Select' days of S60, hopefully. Smartphones driven by a navigational d-pad with central 'OK' button. Now look in your hand to see Symbian in Belle Refresh or Belle FP2...
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Adventlands is full of bubbles
You've heard of bubble popping games, possibly even of bubble dragging games. This has both elements, along with a stereo soundtrack, evil 'bosses' and a wide variety of splash screens and backgrounds....
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Smartphone users prefer apps to mobile web experiences?
Although I've been a proponent of 'There's a bookmark for that!' for a while, on many platforms, I do acknowledge that a 'pretty app which boots up within two seconds and takes advantage of platform...
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Pocket Radar potentially a speed gun in your pocket?
I can't believe I didn't highlight this utility when it first came out, but the recently updated Pocket Radar is a clever idea and implementation. Given that you know how far something is travelling...
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Still photography comparison - HTC One vs Nokia Lumia 920
PocketNow seems to be the first major web site to get both a Nokia Lumia 920 and a HTC One (both with optical image stabilisation and imaging pretensions) in the same place at the same time and take...
View ArticleAAS Insight #234: Updates, cloud, and more
In All About Symbian Insight number 234, Steve and Rafe start by discussing a number of recent software updates for Symbian Belle FP2 devices (Telephony and Gallery & Camera). We also cover some...
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The big shootout: Nokia 808 vs HTC One vs Lumia 920 vs an imposter(!)
With the arrival of the HTC One for Phones Show review, and with its imaging pretensions ("ultrapixels"!), what better opportunity than to put it up against the best camera-toting smartphones on both...
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The Filling proves slick and challenging
The concept's not exactly new, but developer Quanma has done a good job with the implementation here on Symbian - the idea is to gradually segment off parts of an alien-filled playing field without...
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MathGraphica3D impresses with scope and numeric depth
Calling MathGraphica3D a calculator is like calling The Bible a short story - we're talking a full graphical and numerical analysis tool, implemented for Windows, Mac, Linux and... Symbian. Eat your...
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UC Browser 8.8 IS available, you just have to know how to get it
I do like to keep my web browsers up to date, which has meant that it's been a frustrating month waiting for UC Browser 8.8, quite a significant upgrade, announced ages ago and then 'offered' by the...
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Getting Symbian updates out without fuss: 'Software Update' matures
With a flurry of updates for the Symbian Belle FP2 platform recently and even some for the Symbian Belle Refresh generation, Nokia's (ok, mainly Accenture's) remaining Symbian programmers are on...
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Spiral Affair is seriously spaced out
OK, so Spiral Affair is a little spacey, a little off the wall, part arcader, part puzzle, part.... odd. But it's also a well programmed little Symbian game, is available in free and no-ads versions...
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Checkers Deluxe looks cool, plays well, but watch out for those SMS!
"What's the catch?" is perhaps the right response to the release of this, Checkers Deluxe, offering an atmospheric game of checkers ('draughts') against your smartphone's AI, for free. It turns out the...
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Integrating a digital camera - under the hood
File this one under 'link of interest', for sure, but I thought this Raspberry Pi blog post, detailing some of the technical aspects to integrating a modern digital camera with a small processor and...
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