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The aquarium in your smartphone?
Just a mad thought, but I'd been seeing 'aquarium' novelty apps cropping up in the Nokia Store for years and resisted grabbing them - playing with the Nokia E7 and its angled screen, I wondered if any...
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QuickTaskman adds one-touch multitasking
Snakesoft are at it again, but this time with an ultra simple free shortcut utility. Stick QuickTaskman's icon on any homescreen and you can bring up the Symbian multitasking carousel with one tap....
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Biorhythms Pro immaculately presents your 'cycles'
Claiming a heritage back to the early days of the Nokia 9210 and the dawn of Symbian, and developed by the appropriately ironic 'Burning Platform', Biorhythms Pro does the maths to bring you stats on...
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Connect Bubbles sharpens mind and fingers
The prolific code wizards at G Soft have come up trumps again with a lovely little bubble challenge. As per usual, the difficulty ramps up and up, with interstitial ads to 'fund' the free game - there...
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Major update to cuteTube, adds Vimeo and cross-service searching
Available today is a major update, v1.7.3, to one of the biggest applications in the Symbian (and Meego) worlds - cuteTube, the YouTube (and other video services) client. The full changelogs are listed...
View ArticleTimelapses on the Nokia 808 Pureview - the definitive 'how to'
There's a terrific tutorial hereĀ by Olivier Noirhomme on how to do professional 1080p time lapse videos on your Nokia 808 PureView, covering everything from mounting and focussing tips to ISO fixing...
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Hangman Premium - easy, but surprising fun
Another G Soft title, this, but don't be too put off by the concept of Hangman, one of the simplest computer games and just about the first thing most programmers cut their teeth on. Things are made...
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Nokia Windows Phone 808 successor camera flagship sightings
We've been talking about the 'EOS', the probable codename for Nokia's 808 PureView successor (but running Windows Phone 8) for sometime and with a possible launch in Autumn 2013. It was therefore only...
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Adventures in firmware: the Nokia C7: Delight 6.2 edition
It's a fair cop, I just couldn't resist trying out another custom firmware for Symbian. At least in this case I had a willing volunteer, in the form of an old Nokia C7 which had been in heavy use for a...
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F1uptodate fixes Twitter and adds a language
The (free) ultimate real time resource for the Symbian-owning Formula 1 fan has just been updated. F1uptodate lives up to its name, just in time for the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend, adding new...
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Default wallpapers - the collection!
I couldn't resist linking across to this Symbian Developers post - I guess that, technically, the contents of the archives might be copyrighted to Nokia, but I doubt it'll mind at this stage for these...
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Tenacious Symbian, a.k.a. The Rolling Stones vs Justin Bieber?
You've got to admire the passion within the Symbian community. The OS was officially EOLed over two years ago and yet we still have articles like this, "Symbian Tenacity", plus my own missives,...
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The Top 10 third party applications for the Nokia E6 Communicator
The Nokia E6, ever since its launch in an otherwise nHD-screened world, has been different. Higher (VGA) resolution, smaller physical screen, and landscape not portrait. All of which has meant a few...
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Confederations 2013 Guide arrives just in time for the event
Never heard of theĀ 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup? Then you're not the target audience for this useful quick reference application for Symbian, covering the essentials of this Brazil-hosted football...
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New TI MaxLife charging chipsets promise to help extend battery life
You may remember me explaining patiently the ultimate perils of having sealed rechargeable batteries in your smartphone? Texas Instruments, long time suppliers of chipsets and fancy electronics to the...
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iOS 7 looks to catch up to Symbian circa 2010
The headline is slightly tongue in cheek, of course, but there were some striking 'Duh' moments for Symbian users during last night's launch of Apple's iOS 7 for their iPhones (etc.) I've highlighted a...
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Review: ViewRanger GPS
It's fair to say that ViewRanger has come a long way in seven years, since my initialĀ 2006 review on a sub-QVGA deviceĀ and I can only apologise to all concerned that we haven't updated our coverage of...
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Symbian shipments to finally cease this summer, says FT
The erstwhile Financial Times is reporting that Nokia will finally stop shipping Symbian-powered handsets this summer. This comes just over two and a half years after (ex-Microsoft) Stephen Elop...
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Nokia Music update starting to roll out to Belle Refresh smartphones
You may remember that a new version of Nokia Music, the company's Symbian client for discovering new music, rolled out a month ago for Belle Feature Pack 2 devices? That (Qt-fied) update, v16.51, has...
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And people say the Nokia 808 and (rumoured) EOS have camera humps...
File this under industry news of interest, but Samsung has just announced what would be considered an April Fool's joke if launched a few months earlier - the 'Galaxy S4 zoom' packs a full telescopic...
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