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Review: YouTube Downloader HD+
Led by the consummate CuteTube, there's no shortage of YouTube clients of various kinds on Symbian, though changes at Google's end have meant that not all still work properly. YouTube Downloader HD+ is...
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Build Blocks reminds me of Minecraft, but for toddlers...
It's tough to know where Build Blocks is pitched - my gut feel is that it's aimed at small children, but then there's the whole teenage Minecraft phenomenon, so who knows, maybe an older sibling will...
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The Nokia 808 to get a PureView cousin on July 11th?
17 months after the announcement of the Nokia 808 PureView, with 41 megapixel sensor, lossless zoom and oversampling, it seems that we have a date for the launch of a sister device cousin running...
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SafeWallet: A way forward for Handy Safe Pro users?
One of the staples in the Symbian world since the days of 'Series 60' has been Epocware's Handy Safe Pro - the original encrypted database of private info, synced happily between multiple Symbian...
View ArticleMore on the Q10 - a natural Nokia E6 upgrade?
You may remember that I recently put the new Blackberry Q10 and the existing Nokia E6 communicator head to head? The outcome was positive for the Q10, with cutting edge internals, despite feelings...
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Active Yoga will loosen you up
Maybe you're reading this at your desk and feeling stressed and stiff? What you need are a few good stretches. That's the premise of Active Yoga, centred around illustrated, simplified yoga exercises...
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Galaxy War, the fiddliest and most trivial, but prettiest, space shoot 'em up?
Well, that was a frustrating half an hour. It's been years since I had to be consciously aware of having to close other apps down on a Symbian device in order for a game to run, but Galaxy War here...
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What if the Nokia 808 PureView had never been shipped?
In conversation with Engadget's tnkgrl, I postulated that Nokia had spoiled the Symbian world rotten with the launch of the 808 PureView. As the technology poster girl for the next-gen PureView camera...
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The best way to implement a 'Now' homescreen - ideas welcome!
You will remember my recent feature looking at the way users have set up their Symbian homescreens? Some very interesting ideas were shown off and it got me thinking. You see, I also tinker with...
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Crystalusion Liquid Glass akin to snake oil?
Let cut to the chase here. Would you pay £6 for a couple of wet wipes? Of course not, but that's essentially what you're getting here, as I discovered while trying out a sample pack of Crystalusion...
View ArticleAAS Insight #239: cuteTube, E6 to Q10, and more
In All About Symbian Insight, number 239, Steve and Rafe start by talking about some exclusive news around the cuteTube app, before moving on to talk about the latest Symbian software updates (Nokia...
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FP2 extra homescreen pack comes to Belle Refresh too
You may remember that around two months ago we had a batch of five new homescreen widgets deployed through SW Update to Belle Feature Pack 2-powered phones? I did do a spot on getting these...
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qooMail brings ultra-compact widget and new mail interface
You may have been using Symbian's built-in Mail widget selection and main application for so long that you can conceive of no other interface. But if you fancy trying something a little different then...
View ArticleSparkle 2 dials up more cinematic orb-throwing fun
Aha - major game titles are still coming to Symbian, it seems. Regular readers will know that I was a huge fan of 10tons's orb-throwing masterpiece, Sparkle, a game which made its way out from Symbian...
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Review: MeeRun Sports Tracker
The market for sports trackers is increasingly competitive, with the freeware (and eponymous) Sports Tracker leading the way, perhaps. However, the actual cost of the application is rather irrelevant...
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Swirls & Twirls, and Grass 2013 - two of the last new Symbian themes EVER?
As we reported two months ago, we're entering the last week or so for availability of new Symbian themes - at least new in the official Nokia Store, since Nokia is changing the rules for new...
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Jewels provides a brightly coloured logic challenge
The idea behind Jewels is familiar, of course - switch pairs of jewels to create lines of three or more, at which point they disappear and more jewels drop in from the top of the grid. In the process,...
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Hardware QWERTY and long battery life have a place in mobile
File this under 'link of interest', most certainly, because the review subject isn't Symbian, but it's certainly refreshing to see positive review conclusions from the tech media (in this case, Matt...
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A communications wall of your nearest and dearest
File this under 'bright ideas I had while fiddling around', but with the arrival of a properly formatted Contact Communication widget for the Nokia E6 the other day, I had something of a revelation in...
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An 808 camera data point: Startling starlings
The whole point about having an insanely good camera in your phone is not that it can take photos which are obviously superior when viewed on the phone screen, or even on a laptop screen - it's that...
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