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Living Cities - five cities get the Nokia HERE Maps analysis experiment
HERE Maps (née Nokia Maps) has been given a little special analytical treatment here, in the Living Cities experiment. Essentially, Nokia Maps/HERE Maps-connected smartphones were tracked (anonymously)...
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Gravity to add Fever and The Old Reader, 'maybe' Feedly
Popular premium Symbian application Gravity is intended to get replacement functionality to fill the hole left by the demise of Google Reader, it seems. Jan Ole Suhr, Gravity's author, is apparently on...
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All Xenon not created equal? Nokia 808 vs Lumia 928
As part of our review coverage of the Nokia Lumia 928 over on All About Windows Phone, I've been testing the phone's camera, with Xenon flash, of course - Nokia's first Xenon-equipped smartphone in a...
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Delight custom firmware arrives for the Nokia 808
Don't expect me to install this one, since updates are still incoming from Nokia for the 808 PureView, but I'm happy to report on the arrival of the popular 'Delight' custom firmware for the 808, with...
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It's Arjun 'Lite' and the themes are all free...
You'll have seen that I periodically feature some of Arjun Arora's commercial themes here on AAS - they're usually gorgeous and make a real difference to the look and feel of the phone, with immaculate...
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Shoulderpod MOBBO and HANDDO smartphone grip launched
We've all been there - trying to take a photo or video of something at arm's stretch and it proves very tricky to keep the phone gripped properly - usually the result is a tumble onto the floor and...
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More Nokia 'EOS' shots leak out, Pro Cam revealed
The previous leaks of the Nokia 'EOS', the Windows Phone 8 device with the same camera as the Nokia 808 PureView, have been from the factory or from ad-hoc positions, while the two over the last 24...
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The secrets of Nokia's OIS PureView phase 2 camera
Nokia do this type of video better than any other conmpany, I think. Included below is a video demonstrating the internals of its 'PureView phase 2' camera, i.e with Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS),...
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Dictate marches on, adds sports, news, SMS composition
Just a month after the last major update, Dictate, the third party voice recognition utility, has been tweaked again, this time to add sports, news, SMS composition, camera opening, and more. It's...
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How to: "There's a shortcut for that!" (Symbian's ecosystem mid-2013)
Long time AAS readers will remember a fairly well acclaimed article I did back in 2010, entitled: "There's a bookmark for that!" The idea was to highlight that, even though there weren't necessarily...
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PhotProc made more reliable, filters now faster
Nokia 808 owners will be familiar with PhotProc, the very powerful but also very slow on-device photo processing utility - it's still in beta and is still slow, but perhaps not quite so much, at least...
View ArticleBuilding phones.... to survive?
Having been very fortunate to have toured a Nokia internal device testing facility myself, back in the mists of time, I'm always interested when Nokia (or another manufacturer) brings reliability...
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Joe Belfiore leaks out Nokia Lumia 1020 sample images
Rather confirming the name of the upcoming (three days to go) successor to the Nokia 808 PureView, Microsoft's Windows Phone chief has put up a set of photos on his personal Flickr account, reports My...
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How far we've come in five years (a.k.a. my top 10 observations while going...
The agony and the ecstasy. Unboxing a mint condition Nokia N95 8GB today, a device from 2007, I was struck by both how familiar it still seems - and, as I started setting it up (i.e. 'pimping' it!),...
View ArticleTesting Nokia's Rich Recording on keyboard and electric guitar
Determined to put Nokia's Rich Recording (and HAAC microphones) to the test, Olivier and Jonas here record their own musical efforts at high volume using the Nokia 808 PureView and the Lumia 920...
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Mobicaching a useful, though not definitive, Symbian geocaching tool
The world of geocaching is a troubled one. Not for the hiker, out in the fresh air, but in the world of supporting data - after all, someone's got to keep track of where all the 'caches' are. Thus...
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qooSaver brings weather and battery status to your Symbian always on lockscreen
Into a world previously only inhabited by Symbian's 'Big Clock' and 'Nokia Sleeping Screen' comes qooSaver, an exciting new screensaver for the OS, offering a veritable wealth of extra information...
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Big FilesPlus update brings in grid view, bookmarks and more Cloud Print file...
You may remember that I've covered FilesPlus before, a cloud-aware file manager for Symbian that rolls in such services as Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive as easily as your local microSD or mass...
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Showing what full OIS can do in the hands of an expert
Entitled 'The Promise Of Lumia: You Won’t Believe These Photos Were Taken On A Phone', Nokia old-hand Vaibhav Sharma shows off some of the night time low light landscapes he took on the Lumia 928 over...
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Google Latitude to shut down on August 9th
It's true that Nokia Maps has been all-consuming on Symbian in the last few years, yet many people remember enjoying Google Maps on the platform back in 2007-2010. The Google Maps client from that era...
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