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Smartphones and beyond - Lessons from the remarkable rise and fall of Symbian
Admittedly being written more for people in the industry than consumers, David Wood's upcoming restrospective on the lessons to be learned from the rise (60% market share) and fall of Symbian still...
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Tweetian updated, ex-Store, to fix Twitter profile compatibility
We knew this day would happen, of course. It's post-January 1st 2014, and something changes in a critical online service, in this case Twitter, and a Nokia Store-hosted application - the freeware...
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Nokia N8 Delight v6.4 custom firmware (CFW) released
We're now firmly into 2014, Nokia is never going to issue another firmware for devices like the classic N8 - and probably never even another SW_update patch. So there's nothing to lose and everything...
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Delight 6.4 for the Nokia C7 too
Fresh on the heels of Delight 6.4 CFW for the Nokia N8 comes the equivalent for the C7. As with the N8 version, the highlight is the addition of SMS Themer, but there's a lot more here to stay up to...
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A few last updates break through the iced-up Nokia Store (updated)
Since the Nokia Store was officially 'frozen' on January 1st (2014), I've had several reports from readers about a few applications still being shown with new updates available, so it seems as if the...
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Delight CFW v1.1 for the Nokia 500
Delight custom firmware continues its evolution even on the most budget of Symbian smartphones. Below are details of the latest version of this popular alternative to stock firmware for the humble...
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No New World Order ushers in the world of Atari, circa 1980...
A rather grand name.... for a rather ambitious theme, with No New World Order (II) screen captured below on a Nokia 808. It's neon, it's reminiscent of an Atari video game circa 1980 and it'll give...
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Vedhas's "year with the 808"
Guest writer Vedhas Patkar here delivers a 'one year on' mini-review on the Nokia 808, still his mainstay but with the enormous decision ahead of him as to where to jump to next as 2014 rolls on. I...
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Delight CFW hits the Nokia X7 for the first time
The Nokia X7 was a strange beast - initially appearing to be something from Star Trek, complete with warp nacelles, it turned out to be a rather restrictive, style-over-function Symbian^3 phone that...
View ArticleRomance in HD... on the Nokia 808 PureView
AAS reader Sabby Jolly has sent in this HD short film (embedded below) that he shot for his friends solely on the Nokia 808 PureView - with a split screen approach (you'll see) it's quite slickly...
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Shareboard fix available to counter Twitter login change
You may remember how I originally posted about Shareboard, a quick way of posting status and picture updates to both Twitter and Facebook? Online services change, though, and Twitter changed part of...
View ArticleNokia N8, riding on DJI Phantom Quadcopter, attacks cook!
Thanks to Darren Morin for the heads-up on this terrifying Terminator-style attack by a malevolent Nokia N8 on an almost defenceless cook in Ireland recently. OK, OK, it's a well flown quadcopter, with...
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Revamped Nokia Developer website drops Symbian SDKs and documentation
Nokia Developer has launched a revamped version of its website with the aim of offering a cleaner user interface that more closely matches the rest of Nokia's web properties. An unfortunate side effect...
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Nokia Store search woes continue - one week and counting
Starting a week ago, the Nokia Store (as many of you have noticed) has been playing up, going into 'spinning circles' whenever you try searching for anything. Nokia was informed of the problem last...
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Qperience and the switch from Symbian to Android development
In a guest editorial, Antti Lipponen from Finnish developers Qperience takes us through the company's history and eventual decision to switch from Symbian to Android for their games, making use of the...
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UK consumer protection group decrees guidelines for IAPs by April 1st
Debate over IAPs (In App Purchase) has raged here on the 'All About' sites over the last six months, with my passionate rant against IAP mis-use and Ewan's equally passionate decree that IAPs were the...
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UTP's best phone-shot photos in 2013
Yes, yes, a link to a page with nothing but photos. But a) it's Friday, and b) the photos are all mobile-only and rather impressive. All are taken by the Unleash The Phones crew, and naturally includes...
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The next thing to break: Microsoft Exchange sync?
Sometimes an AAS news or flow item is as much about the community gathering data points as it is about delivering hard and fast news. That's very much the case here, with many conflicting reports...
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Delight custom firmware for the Nokia E7 now available
Since Delight custom firmwares came onto the Symbian scene, the most asked question of all was: when will this come to the Nokia E7 Communicator? With its full width fold out QWERTY keyboard, the E7...
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All Benarom games now free
Good to see yet another developer seeing sense in Symbian's twilight years and making his applications free to all, without ads. In this case it's Benarom Games, developers of BR Pipes Qt (which I...
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