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The huge potential problem with in-app purchases
You may recall seeing some pointed comments by me in the recent mini-review of Checkers Deluxe, with a load of opportunities in the game to tap a button to fire off premium SMS to buy such and such a...
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Implemented in Web Runtime(!) - nChess is quick and casual
What do get when a Symbian enthusiast spots that someone once wrote an entire chess engine in javascript? You get a chess game implemented entirely in Symbian Web Runtime - and it's not as bad as you...
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Burst Camera provides 'HTC Zoey' function for Symbian
In our launch story for Burst Camera, I described how it could take very rapid (30 fps) sequences of photos and someone (rightly) pointed out in the comments that the app didn't in fact take actual...
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Messaging 'critical fix' available for Belle Refresh smartphones
Available now (/rolling out) for all Belle Refresh smartphones is a 'Fix for Messaging', offering 'critical fixes to known Messaging issues'. Quite what these are isn't known, but if you've been having...
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A (slightly geeky) cross-section of the smartphone world
As part of recording Phones Show Chat 180, I took the chance of meeting up with three other longtime smartphone users, spending a happy evening chatting about all things tech. Although I did note a...
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'Upload to SkyDrive' brought to S60 5th Edition in beta
As part of the suggested migration over to Windows Phone, and following the official roll out of 'Upload to SkyDrive' to the Symbian^3/Anna/Belle generation of hardware, Nokia's tackling something...
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YO! provides an alien-themed arcade puzzler
Think Tetris, think Columns and then mash the two together with loads of alien 'googly' eyes and you'll get the idea of YO!, in which you try and match four or more pairs of adjacent alien eyes,...
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An eloquent defense of the Nokia 808 PureView
I was pointed towards an eloquent piece here about the position of the Nokia 808 PureView and Symbian in today's smartphone world. The writer rightly highlights some of the ways in which the 808 is...
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Integral (sealed) memory vs microSD - which is better?
Throughout the history of PDAs and smartphones (so we're talking 20 years), one particular design battle has been raging, seemingly without a victor. From which you have to conclude that the battle is...
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Slide To Unlock, currently free and offering N9-style double-tap unlocking
Guest poster Ow Kah Leong has reported in on one of his favourite utilities, Slide To Unlock (from the developers behind the much respected Thumbnail Folders), see below for screens, etc. It doesn't...
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Four In A Row Planets proves hard to beat
There's a problem with puzzles that are easy to represent within a computer program - play against the machine and you'll get slaughtered. Chess is a common example, though there are strategic...
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NeoReader update allows for Gallery images, better 1D code scanning
You'll remember NeoReader as one of the main QR/barcode scanning utilities on Symbian? Well, it has just had a big update, to v4.6.0, allowing previously photographed codes to be accepted as input and...
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Galaxy Invasion is a surprisingly addictive space shoot 'em up
I'm a sucker for space arcade games, having been brought up on the original Space Invaders and Galaxians in the arcades of the early 1980s.... In many ways, Galaxy Invasion combines elements of both...
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CameraPro Qt 3 gets front camera support and a mass of fixes
Everybody's favourite Belle FP2 replacement camera application just got itself a significant update, to v3.3.6, adding front camera support on the Nokia 808 and 701, plus a mass of fixes and...
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It's all very well having a Nokia 808 PureView and sitting somewhere with friends, family or colleagues and feeling rather superior in the camera department. But, should the occasion arise, how do you...
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Belle Extra Buttons gets huge update: more icons, more customisability
Back in January, I reported on Belle Extra Buttons v1.7.5, itself a big update. It seems that the developer hasn't rested, for we now have v2.1.0, with a changelog as long as your arm, including now up...
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Dominoes brings the pub to your smartphone
Whether you think of dominoes as a) a kids game, b) a pub game, or c) simply a very old game, the fact remains that it's simple to pick up, has surprising strategy elements and, here, is totally free...
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Nokia Public Transport coverage increased across the world
As with the recent baseline street map updates, Nokia's Symbian users continue to benefit from the work put into increasing mapping resources for the company's wider platform ambitions (e.g. HERE,...
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Webview widget trial ended, 'next steps' being planned
One of Nokia Beta Labs shorter trials, Webview widget was only in the wild for six weeks, yet managed to accrue quite a bit of feedback for the Nokia team, not least in our comment threads. Beta Labs...
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Straw poll time: "Symbian generations" - Touch vs non-touch
With Symbian firmly in its twilight years but still very much alive, I'd like to gather a little data, for all our interest, on the generations of Symbian-powered hardware still in active use. It's...
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