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How to get location favourites from Nokia Maps to Microsoft Maps
Guest author Massis Sirapian takes mapping fans of a geeky nature through the process of getting Nokia Maps favourites on a Symbian smartphone to Microsoft Maps on a desktop (Windows 8.1 or 10) - and...
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Carthago, a Symbian car2go/Moovel client...
Just a quick note to highlight Carthago, a car2go-Moovel app for Symbian, coincidentally updated to version 7.56i today. This 'reestablishes access to car-location maps for existing users'. If you...
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Of resolutions and claims - that Sony Z5 quote: "the best camera in a leading...
I was interested to see Sony announce the Xperia Z5's new 23MP (ish) camera as "the best camera in a leading smartphone*". The presence of an asterisk should alert you to the fact that Sony has been...
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FBReader, Situations, QuasarMX and Droper all hit the AppList Store
Sorry folks, no time to delve into mini-reviews/recaps of these applications, but I did want to highlight that they've all been added to the AppList Store for Symbian this week. See below for some...
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Zenfone Zoom - a sideways glance at different cameraphone tech
Anyone who's a fan of the Nokia 808 PureView and Lumia 1020 will have been all too aware that, despite camera capabilities rising across the phone world in 2014 and 2015, we still don't have a...
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Never mind Xenon - technology is eliminating flash in camera phones altogether
The debates have raged over the years, of course. Phone cameras acquired flash units, first LED and then, on some Nokias, Xenon, though the bulk, expense and power requirements of this technology meant...
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Choetech TC7: the perfect Christmas gift for the smartphone-owning driver?
You're driving along in the middle of nowhere, late at night and it's puring with rain - you have an accident with another vehicle or drive into a tree or ditch. The engine's out, your seat belt is...
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The difference a decade makes: Updates
The next time you look at your on-device application store, with a progress bar showing that an update to, say, Photos is taking an outrageous 30 seconds to apply, here's a cautionary data point from a...
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Adding the Xperia Z5: the Nokia cameraphone classics 808/1020/930, all vs...
My last camera phone comparison for over a month, I promise(!), the arrival of the much-praised (in terms of its imaging) Xperia Z5 prompted another comparison across a range of test shots against the...
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Review: Lumsing 'Grand A1 Plus' 13400mAh power bank
The flow of really rather handy emergency chargers into AAWP Towers never seems to stop. I couldn't resist taking a look at this one, since it promises metal (which I like), very high capacity (ditto)...
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Iterating on zoom: smartphone approaches through the years...
Almost as soon as cameras started to arrive on smartphones (the Nokia 7650 was the first - I still have mine!), bright minds started to wonder if it would be possible to not only snap a scene, but...
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cuteRadio issues fixed, with new API - downtime begone!
cuteRadio is the de facto best independent Internet Radio application on Symbian - yet it's been down for much of the last few months, thanks to issues with the service it had been using. Happily,...
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Mini-review: Lumsing A1 Mini 6700mAh power bank - it's all about the density
As Li-Ion battery technology improves, we're seeing more mAh in more compact form factors. Compared to the emergency chargers and power banks we had five years ago, at least. The challenge is to take a...
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Pinnacle Studio 19 and Nero Video 2016 - editing smartphone-shot video on...
Editing smartphone-shot video on a Windows PC has rarely been without quirks. There are the major commercial editing systems of days gone by (represented here by Pinnacle Studio 19) and then there were...
View ArticleSymbian over the air and Nokia Suite updates officially terminated
Unsurprisingly, the end of Symbian as a viable smartphone platform just got even closer, with Microsoft (Symbian's new owners after the Nokia Devices buy-out) shutting down all the servers handling...
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The Nokia Wi-fi connectivity test server now offline, 'Limited Connectivity'...
If you've seen the odd error message recently on a Symbian smartphone, at least when using it on Wi-fi, it's because Nokia's longstanding connectivity-test.ext.nokia.com server is now offline, the...
View ArticleGetting sync, flashing, modem working under Windows 10
If, like me, you just use 'USB'/'Mass Storage' mode to hook up your Symbian smartphone to Windows 10 then you'll have no issues - just drag and drop as usual. However, it seems that there's more of an...
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Review: Veho VPP-005 8400mAh Pebble Explorer - perfectly formed, digital...
Long time 'AllAbout' readers will be somewhat tired of hearing this, but... this new power bank is possibly my favourite emergency charger on the market. Yes, each successive gadget seems to inherit...
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DxOMark? We need a real world 'Mark' for smartphone photography - ...
Ah yes, the professionally-rated best camera phones of the world. In this case, DxOMark calling the shots. Here's a quiz: what have the still cameras in the Nexus 6P, Xperia Z3+, iPhone 6s, Blackberry...
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Four years on from that MWC announcement!
Guest writer Stuart Cutts writes: Mobile World Congress 2016 is now here and, as usual, Rafe will be treading mile upon mile of the show floor to get an insight into the latest and greatest in the...
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