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Real Phone - in-car aid or, better, suitable for (grand)parents?
I'm not sure the developer has angled 'Real Phone' right - it's pitched as a simple way to interact with contacts in-car, i.e. without too many fiddly finger taps needed, but I think he'd do much...
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Checking if the podcatching grass is greener
One of the core activities on any Symbian phone in recent years has been podcatching, i.e. the fully automated gathering of podcasts, ready for your listening anytime, anywhere. First Nokia Podcasting,...
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Freeware utility adds solar charging to your Symbian phone (ahem)
It's a fair cop, this is in fact one of those novelty applications that I normally skip right over, except that a) I was in frivolous mood, b) it's very well done in terms of attention to detail, and...
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The Top 10 of Symbian Weird - ugly, odd or bizarre
You may remember that I featured the Top 10 Most Beautiful Symbian phones a while back? This is the exact opposite, a condemnation celebration of the very worst in cosmetics, practicality and...
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Nokia Public Transport 2.5 gets official release at last
You may recall my news post about the increased city coverage across the world for Nokia Public Transport? The caveat in that piece was that you had to have installed the beta v2.5 release of the app...
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Mines is free, fun and challenging
I've lost count of the number of versions of Minesweeper for Symbian now, but I'm not going to let another decent incarnation slip by without comment because this one's both well programmed and totally...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Nokia backed FairSearch file complaint with EC against Android
FairSearch Europe, a lobbying group backed by a group of businesses that includes Microsoft and Nokia, has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission (EC) about the way Google bundles...
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ShareBoard allows lightning status updates to Facebook and Twitter
Posting a quick social update to multiple networks with one tap is rarely trivial on any smartphone. Gravity gets close on Symbian, while Nokia Social has this as one of its (few) highlights. But what...
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Save The Kitty physics puzzler wows on Symbian
For the second time in a month, a major physics-based puzzler has hit Symbian (still, numerically, the 'third ecosystem') before other mobile platforms. In this case Save The Kitty, with you having to...
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The Top 10 'HD' Symbian games
Two Top 10s in one week? Yep, I'm in that sort of mood. In this case, a pointer to what I consider are the very best games to show off what Symbian and your smartphone can do, perhaps challenged down...
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Turning the Nokia N8 into a Delight?
Although I haven't tried this personally, for a Symbian^3 generation device, I did note the other day that there's a pretty attractive new custom firmware released for the Nokia N8 - "Delight 6.0 -...
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Math Fun Premium perfect for testing 6 to 8 year olds
There definitely aren't enough good educational games in the Nokia Store. My hopes weren't high when I spotted that Math Fun Premium is essentially a Flash application, but I was impressed by its...
View ArticleCounter-Strike on Symbian? Yes and no!
The Half-Life spinoff Counter-Strike is a big name in PC gaming, I know. And below is a video of it running on Symbian. Really. With 8 maps, 8 weapons and 4 skins. That's the good news. I'll save the...
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PhoNetInfo tweak - how long has YOUR smartphone been 'up'?
It's a fair copy, this is a small update to a fairly geeky utility, but it got me musing (hey, it's Friday!)... PhoNetInfo, one of my favourite utilities (yes, it's commercial, but buy it anyway and...
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WeatherClock, the all-purpose homescreen widget
Here's another weather widget to add to your Symbian homescreen arsenal, though it stands out by having two sizes, several styles, plus shortcuts to Clock and Calendar (hence the 'Clock' bit in the...
View ArticleAAS Insight #236: Revolutions and app round-up
In All About Symbian Insight number 236, Steve and Rafe start the podcast by discussing Steve's revolutionary device, before moving on to round up some recent app releases. We mention Nokia Public...
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Nokia's smartphone camera firsts and timeline
As a huge fan of Nokia's photographic heroics through the last decade, starting with the 7650 and ending with the Lumia 920, I couldn't resist embedding this well done 'infographic' emphasising Nokia's...
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The Facebook phone? Top options on Symbian
So we now have a 'Facebook phone' in the wild, we have Android users testing out 'Facebook Home' as a replacement front end for their phones, and we have Windows Phone users jumping up and down saying...
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X-plore for Symbian goes freeware
One little utility that has been popular over the years for digging into the recesses of your Symbian smartphone's file system has been X-plore. Traditionally it has been fully working shareware, but...
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Gravity beta 2.82 (7286) brings better Twitter and Google Maps compatibility
I've said it over and over again, the only way to use Gravity is riding its beta track, which maintains all the latest compatibility fixes and new features. Here we have v2.82 build 7286, with SIS file...
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