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The very last CuteTube update.... in the Nokia Store
You'll remember that, a week ago, we had an update to YouTube client CuteTube, introducing a system for updating itself outside of the soon-to-be-frozen Nokia Store? This hasn't been switched on at the...
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Asha Normandy - an Android powered phone from Nokia?
The Verge reports that Nokia has been building an Android powered phone, one that is aimed at the low-end of the market, equivalent to the company's current Asha feature phone products. The phone,...
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Astrophotography with the Nokia N8 and Lumia 925
While the N8 is ancient in the smartphone world, it still has an impressive camera, with native 12MP output. So much so, that it's still the benchmark by which we at All About Towers judge all other...
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PhoNetInfo adds new status functionality
PhoNetInfo has been my Symbian diagnostic tool of choice for several years now - and it just got updated, sneaking in a patch before the Nokia Store freezes over forever... Version 4.2 adds SMS and...
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One last hurrah - Situations v2 available - and free!
The ground breaking Situations has been one of the most respected Symbian utilities for years, going commercial a couple of years ago but resurfacing today with one last 'v2' update, direct from the...
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How to: understand camera phone megapixel resolutions
Imaging enthusiasts like me live and breathe resolutions and jargon like 'oversampling' and 'Back Side Illumination', but it's easy to lose track of more mundane questions and issues from those for...
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'FilePLAY music player' assured for 2014, adds in-app updating
FilePLAY is a music application that hasn't been covered before on AAS, but it's interesting in that it handles tracks by folder rather than by metadata like album and artist. Of course, if your...
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Gravity - the multi-update-track story
Gravity is possibly the best known Symbian client for Twitter, Facebook and other online services - the developer has been a bit quiet during 2013, but there has been some progress and I was interested...
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Delight custom firmware for the Nokia E7 and X7 is... planned!
I couldn't help but mention in passing on AAS that we're assisting the compilers of the popular Delight custom firmware in porting it across to the Nokia E7 communicator and the media-centric Nokia X7....
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Smartphone storage - how low can you go?
Perhaps matching the debate on sealed vs replaceable batteries as a design trend for our time is that of sealed memory. In other words, flash storage for applications, files, documents and media, which...
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Don't reset your phone if you need Nokia Public Transport
It probably shouldn't come as a surprise by now, but some parts of Nokia's Symbian platform support are starting to crumble. This is just a heads-up that if you like using Nokia Public Transport then...
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MusiKloud's final Store incarnation and OTA updating
As previously reported, the third party Soundcloud client for Symbian, MusiKloud has now achieved 'sentience'. Or, at least, along with a number of other Symbian applications, can check for updates and...
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Last Notekeeper update adds new functions, speedier UI
In its last update before the Nokia Store freezes forever, the best (and only!) Evernote client for Symbian, Notekeeper, has been bumped up to v2.1.0, with API rate checks now handled 'gracefully' and...
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F1uptodate - the final, final Store update!
Yes, this is something of a small update, but it's an important one - the Formula 1 news and information app 'F1uptodate', one of the pioneers of in-app updating in the Symbian world in 2012/2013,...
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Nokia Weather officially discontinued
The eagle-eyed here will now that Nokia Weather, the widget and module from Maps Suite, has been playing up for the last few days, returning an error message. This has happened in the past and it's...
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How to: Back up your offline country maps for Nokia Maps
With components like Weather stopping working recently from the Nokia Maps suite in our Symbian smartphones, a very good question to ask yourself is what would happen if Nokia took its map servers...
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"Belle Feature Pack 3" CFW(!) for the Nokia 808
Consider this completely untested (by me), but it may well be of interest to any Nokia 808 owners still playing with various custom firmware and evaluating which is best for them. Dubbed "Belle Feature...
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Stunningly immerseive panoramas from the Nokia 808 and Lumia 1020
Aided by both full resolution photos taken in his own Symbian and Windows Phone application, and clever stitching and presenting software, developer Harald Meyer has put up a couple of stunningly...
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How to transfer contacts from Symbian to Android/iPhone
Getting contacts from device to device is always something that throws up a few quirks - something usually gets lost, whichever method (sync, utility, SIM card, etc) you use. Yash over at...
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In the white corner: Nokia 808. In the yellow corner: Lumia Black
Yes, yes, these colour combinations are getting crazy.... With the Lumia 1020 (on Windows Phone) having started to get its long awaited 'Nokia Black' firmware update, and with the imaging enhancements...
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