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Podcatcher and CoverUp both now free forever
Sebastian Brannstrom's Podcatcher and CoverUp have been Symbian staples for years, each commercial applications and garnering decent sales as a result. With Symbian in its twilight days and in light of...
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A reminder of EDoF done right? Nokia 701 pics
Consider this a bit of a blast from the past - AAS reader Kurt Kaufman has sent in a nice batch of photos taken during 2013 on his Nokia 701. This was a fairly rare Symbian smartphone, released in 2011...
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Delight CFW v1.3 now out for the Nokia 808
Delight Custom Firmware (CFW) is very popular these days among hardcore Symbian enthusiasts, so it's noteworthy that the very latest build, v1.3, for the Nokia 808 just came out. See below for screens,...
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Nokia 808 to Samsung Galaxy S4 and back
AAS reader and (in this case) guest author Richard Trinkner (in the USA, unusually for a Symbian enthusiast) had an interesting tale to tell in a comment recently. So much so that he's now drafted a...
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Review: Nokia DC-19 Universal Portable USB Charger
Nokia's DC-19 Universal Portable USB Charger provides an easy way of topping up your phone's battery when out and about. That's something that seems to be an increasingly common requirement, a result...
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Google HD update delivers UI tweaks, split screen keyboard and fixes
You'll remember that I featured Google HD for Symbian a month ago, showing how it gave a viable way into official Gmail, Google Maps and more? It just got updated, with the changelog shown below....
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The end of the road for Swype on Symbian?
A new year dawns and it seems that the Swype (v2.x) Beta that many of us had been using on Belle FP2 devices like the Nokia 808 has stopped working properly. Reported faults include simple non...
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Symbian application updates in 2014
As everyone's now aware, the Nokia Store (for Symbian apps) is effectively frozen as of midnight tonight. Which means no updates, no new applications - nothing at all. Of course, a lot of the content...
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qooWeather final Store update, now premier homescreen weather option?
OK, it's a fair cop, v4.3.4 of qooWeather is a trivial update, switching the weather forecast in a slightly more timely fashion as the days advance, but it's also significant in that it's effectively...
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What To Do After The Nokia Store-pocalypse
With the disclaimer that the article contains several links back to this very site(!), do note a helpful piece by Alvin Wong here on the current state of the Symbian ecosystem and what you can do to...
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The Nokia 808 PureView takes on two DSLRs and a compact
The Nokia 808 may now be almost two years old and effectively obsolete as a commercial product, but that hasn't stopped it being enjoyed by many and still used in interesting photographic comparisons....
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WhatsApp Scheduler lets you control WhatsApp properly
WhatsApp is a greedy application, likes to take over control of your SIM card and phone number (albeit for logical reasons) and also needs a little control over when it's allowed to run, check for new...
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Three extra questions that Store approval peeps should be asking (and aren't)
The subject here is Store bloat. And it's something which I've been ranting about now for four years, on various sites. Yet the people in charge of the main smartphone app stores haven't learned. In...
View ArticleAAS Insight #245: Nokia Store and app updates
In All About Symbian Insight 245, hosted by Steve and Rafe, we start by talking about the state of Symbian app updates in the context of the freezing of Symbian content in the Nokia Store. Other topics...
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Singapore Bus surprisingly comprehensive
Guest writer Ow Kah Leong has crafted this mini-review of a Symbian application that's new to AAS at least, Singapore Bus. Go on, guess what it does....! [By the way, if you'd like to review something...
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Blackberry to regroup around QWERTY - Nokia E6 and E7 owners take note?
As a fan of hardware QWERTY keyboards, I (and some other E6 and E7 owners) may be interested to note today's news from Bloomberg, in which the future direction of that company seems to be focussed...
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Whatsapp updates continue, ex-Store, of course
Whatsapp, despite being a pretty core Symbian application for many people, hasn't been in the Nokia Store for many months, so the freezing of the latter didn't cause it to skip a beat. This is...
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The 808's 'purity' now matched by the 'Black' 1020?
The whole point about the Nokia 808 PureView's camera was the hardware-accelerated oversampling system, taking up to 41 megapixels of data and combining pixel data to produce 'pure' super-pixels. Zero...
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Phone-shot photos only, Nokia-heavy FlickR group launched
It's a fair cop, this link of interest isn't directly to do with Symbian (AAS) or Windows Phone (AAWP), but it's worth noting that the popular (cough of self interest here) Phones Show Chat audio...
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Psiloc (Traveler, etc.) drops off the Symbian ecosystem
Psiloc has been one of the longest standing Symbian developers, dating back to the earliest Series 60 days. In fact, I seem to remember Psiloc apps on my Nokia 9210 Communicator. But all things come to...
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