A most excellent Nokia 808 summer video compilation
Showing just what the Nokia 808 can do in terms of macro video and PureView zooming, along with delightful countryside scenes and nature that are right up my street, is Olivier Noirhomme, from Belgium,...
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Behind the lens of a 41MP PureView Nokia Lumia 1020
You've got to love a well done hardware promo, in this case Nokia's 1020 arty effort from the phone's launch. Yes, this video is now a few weeks old, but as a physicist I wanted to pick out several...
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The Dorman interview and those PureView camera phones
A short, but interesting interview is excerpted and linked to below, with one of the biggest fans of Nokia's camera tech, Richard Dorman (a.k.a. 'Sheridan01' in many instances online). He's taken more...
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The Burst Camera you didn't know you had in your Symbian Belle FP2 phone
Burst photos are 'in' at the moment, and rightly so. While no use at all for traditional photography stars like coastlines and sunsets, when it comes to action shots of kids, pets and wildlife, it can...
View ArticleMicrosoft to acquire Nokia's Devices & Services business and license patents
Microsoft and Nokia today announced that they had signed an agreement whereby Nokia will sell its Devices & Services business and license its patents to Microsoft for €5.4 billion. The transaction...
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Five under-appreciated design features of the Nokia E6 Communicator
You know, the more the world centres in on large touch-only smartphones, the more I continue to appreciate the genuinely different hardware we've had in the modern age in the Symbian world. Yes, the OS...
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Google Maps servers start to disconnect from Symbian
Google Maps on Symbian has something of a chequered history, from its first release as a Java app to a native Symbian application to the rise of Google's own smartphone platform (Android) and the...
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Track@Way polished and personal, for hikers
We've seen a fair number of GPS tracking utilities in our time at AAS, but Track@Way stands out as being colourful and more 'personal', with the facility to export your tracks and to re-navigate...
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The Microsoft buy-out: is there an impact on the Symbian world?
It seems that Tuesday's news of Microsoft buying Nokia's devices arm, lock, stock and barrel, generated something of a storm of comment, mostly on conspiracy lines. But, this being All About Symbian, I...
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Tentative Android port onto Symbian hardware?
It's somewhat telling that this is being done by a school kid at weekends rather than by a company, but take it for what it's worth. Alex Sárkány has been working on a port from the Android Open Source...
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Data point: only one year of repair parts left for Symbian smartphones?
Just one data point of course, but from a trusted source, it seems that there are roughly one year's worth of spare parts left for repair purposes, for many Symbian smartphones, within Nokia's service...
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App Wizard 'apps' disappear from the Nokia Store
Back in 2009, Nokia introduced the 'Ovi App Wizard', a web-based way for anyone to paste in their blog's RSS feed and get a 'news' app spat out the other end, auto-inserted into the Ovi Store. The...
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Instagraph Uploader (for Instagram) adds photo preview and more...
You may remember that we featured Instagraph Uploader a few weeks ago? It was a basic Instagram uploader utility that used a cloud service as an intermediary - but did work. Available today is a...
View ArticleNokia to draw down on all of EUR 1.5 billion bond financing from Microsoft
In the agreement, announced last week, for Nokia to sell its device business to Microsoft, there were a number of linked provisions. One of these was that Microsoft agreed to make available €1.5...
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AllThingsD and New York Times on the background to Microsoft Nokia deal
Nick Wingfiled, writing for the New York Times, and Ina Fried, writing for AllThingsD, both have stories on what went on, behind the scenes, in the recent negotiations that led to the announcement that...
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qooRSS update: qooSaver adds RSS headlines to your always-on screen saver
Not content with bringing status info, email and weather to your always on AMOLED screen saver on Symbian, qooSaver has now added RSS headlines. Obviously it's only the first few words of the two top...
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fMobi updated to work with latest Facebook API changes
fMobi, reckoned by many to be the best Facebook client on Symbian, has been out of action for weeks, but it's now back and working, thanks to the new v3.6 update which is 'updated to work with latest...
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Real world low light PureView and Xenon testing: Nokia 808 vs 1020
I've handled a broad strokes comparison of the two 41 megapixel camera flagships of the smartphone world before, notably here (when I declared them roughly equal in merit though with very different...
View Article361 Degrees Podcast - "RIP Nokia (Devices & Services Division)"
In the eighth episode of the fifth season of the 361 Degrees Podcast the team discuss last week's Nokia and Microsoft news. The podcast offers a summary of what was announced, explains there's more of...
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'Support until 2016' confirmed by Nokia's Weber
A perfectly valid question, following Microsoft's buyout of Nokia's Devices division, is "what will happen to Symbian?", which I've already tried to answer. One of the points I tackled was what would...
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