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Smartphone camera super-test: Nokia 808 vs Samsung GS4 vs Lumia 920
In fact, ignore the title, because I've included no less than five top camera-toting smartphones in this group test. In addition to the big three, the Nokia 808 PureView (still reckoned to be champion...
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Meanwhile, over on Windows Phone... the 6-element, ISO3200 camera in the...
Purely as a link of interest for All About Symbian readers, who will be only too aware that I've compared the Lumia 920 to the best camera-centric smartphones from the Symbian world many times (usually...
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SkyDrive uploader rolls out for the Nokia 808 and other Belle FP2 devices
You may remember that Nokia issued a rather primitive SkyDrive uploader for Symbian to Belle Refresh devices last year, followed up by a more polished version two months ago? The idea was to ease the...
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Nokia Suite gets another big new stable release, v3.8 is a 'go'
Available now is a new release on the 'non-beta' track of Nokia Suite, v3.8.30, following the release of a 3.8 beta a month or two ago, with the main changes over the previous stable release, 3.7.22,...
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By popular demand... the 808 rematched with the SGS4, with no holds barred
My 5-camera 7-scene test, earlier this week, provoked a lot of comment along the lines of "ah, but you left the Nokia 808 on default settings for almost all of that, if you'd have used Creative mode...
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Symbian Belle platform variants all get Email, Calendar and Music updates
The OS that just won't die? Two years and three months after Symbian was publicly put on life support, the platform updates keep coming, with the rollout today for all Belle Refresh and Feature Pack 2...
View ArticleSymbian and Windows Phone-powered Nokias in Phones Show 200
We haven't plugged my cross-platform Phones Show for ages here on the All About... sites, but I couldn't resist the video below. Not only is it my 200th Phones Show (FX: pops champagne cork!), there...
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PhotProc brings professional image processing, but patience needed
Jaw-droppingly impressive. And jaw-droppingly impractical at the same time. But that's what you get for doing some incredibly maths-intensive work on a smartphone, even the 1.3GHz Nokia 808 PureView....
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Shooting for the stars with the Nokia 808
Fresh from my (and others) attempts to capture the moon with the Nokia 808 PureView, I was interested to see that 808 photographer extraordinaire Richard Dorman has been going one step further and...
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RubiBox (Box.com client) gets a major v2.0 update, multiple account support
Box.com (née Box.net) rarely gets the same press that DropBox or Google Drive get, but it's arguably just as useful. And you may not have remembered that there's a fairly fully featured Symbian client...
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MeeBible adds new translations, plus social and direct sharing options
Updated in the Nokia Store is the open source (free) MeeBible front end to numerous Bible translations, along with the facility to download any for offline reading. You may remember my original review...
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Nokia publishes corporate social responsibility and sustainability report for...
This week Nokia published its annual corporate social responsibility and sustainability report ("Nokia People & Planet Report 2012"). Covering a wide range of issues it offers an insight into the...
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How much CO2 is a typical Nokia phone responsible for in its life time?
Ever wondered how much energy a Nokia phone consumes during its lifetime? What about the amount of CO2 emissions? Nokia's recently released sustainability report provides an answer for "a typical...
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EOS, the mysterious Nokia camera flagship that's yet to come?
The ink's still not dry on the Lumia 925 press releases and already we're hearing renewed rumours about the mysterious Nokia EOS (codename, of course), thanks to a 'sighting' by a reader of...
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Ow Kah Leong's Nokia 808 PureView: One year on
In this feature, guest writer Ow Kah Leong rounds up a year of the Nokia 808 PureView as his principal phone, smartphone, camera and travel companion. While acknowledging areas in which Symbian may...
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What's your homescreen layout? Dazzle us!
Your site needs YOU! Preparing for a feature on homescreen philosophies here on All About Symbian, I show below my own homescreen arrangement, but I suspect that there are some far more ambitious...
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"Nice weather for the time of year" - WeatherTalk on Symbian
Maybe it's just us Brits, but most of us do like to chat about the weather - which is where WeatherTalk Qt arguably comes in, providing a basic (Foreca-powered) weather forecasting utility, with...
View ArticleXenon shown off in latest ads - who knew it was so good?
Ah yes, these All About sites, where a certain writer has been shouting about the benefits of a proper Xenon flash for the last six YEARS. Well, the last 24 hours have seen a couple of ads for Nokia's...
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Flickr ups free photo storage to 1TB each
Flickr is the oldest photo sharing service on the Internet and remains a favourite of many tech-literate people, not least because there's more emphasis placed on quality, resolution and general...
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Inspiration: Homescreen galleries across the AAS community!
I asked a few days ago for screen grabs of your Symbian homescreens, so that we can all learn and take inspiration from the set-up efforts of the wider AAS community - and here I present the results,...
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