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Mentions for Symbian and Windows Phone in decade round-up
It's always nice for classics to get recognition outside the world of AAS and AWWP. And in this case, although the Lumia 1020 didn't make the list, the Nokia N8, 808 and Lumia 520 did make GSM Arena's...
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Review: PONSINC Wireless 10000mAh charger
The number one hassle with power banks on trips is that you also have to remember to take with you the right charging cable for each family device that you might need to rescue. For most of us, this...
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Bluetooth LE Audio launched
Just a data point for 2021 and beyond. The Bluetooth SIG has announced Bluetooth LE Audio, a new part of the Bluetooth standard designed to replace all previous audio profiles, and using the Bluetooth...
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Head to head: Lumia 950 XL vs f(x)tec Pro1 (plus Nokia E7)
It's... another head to head article for AAWP... with a difference. Because the smartphone here is different, a direct descendant of the Nokia E7 (2010, running Symbian) and N950 (running Meego, which...
View ArticleNot Xenon, but... Anker's new MFi flash unit reviewed
Decent flash is something I've written about for a decade and a half, starting with the likes of the Nokia N82, then the N8, 808 PureView and Lumia 1020, all with Xenon technology. Since then we've had...
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A possible AAWP future?
Forgive the thought flight into the unknown, but most readers will be aware by now that AAWP's infrastructure is less than efficient - see below for the various things that are actually broken. Anyway,...
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The Megapixel race and Samsung's S20 Ultra: Stop it, this is getting silly...
Cue a Graham Chapman (Python) voice for the end of the headline - but he'd be right, the Megapixel race just got very silly indeed. We've covered the 108MP sensor before, of course, but the confirmed...
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GSMArena introduces smartphone speaker tests...
Better (and hopefully stereo) speakers on smartphones in something that I've been personally campaigning for over the last decade. And one by one manufacturers have been upping their game, thankfully....
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PitlaneOne UWP update for (Symbian and) Windows 10 Mobile - ready for F1, 2020!
We're heading into the first full week of Formula 1 for 2020. New for this year are the return of the chequered flag to end races, shark fins on the back to help fans work out which driver is which...
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They had me at 'temporal noise reduction'. Phone imaging through the ages...
There's a good write up here of a keynote talk by DxOMark's CEO and CTO, Frederic Guichard, in which he takes attendees through the history of smartphone cameras, in special comparison to DSLR quality,...
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Headphone jack 'flashback'
Doing enough 'retro' articles myself, I'm also glad to highlight interesting pieces in similar vein from others. Here we have a nice 'history of the humble headphone jack', from century-old 1/4"...
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Huawei's P40 series launched, ambitious optical paths
Huawei, locked out of Google's services, still have access to Android code, and with the focus(!) on photography for tits new P40 series, I thought the introductory video was worth a quick Flow story....
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Introducing the Astro Slide 5G
Most 'All About' old hands have a soft spot for 'communicators', all in one devices with full screen UI and also a full physical keyboard. There have been a few over the years, most recently with the...
View ArticleThe 'Ultra' verdict
After my shootout between the brand new Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra and the Lumia 1020 and 950, I wanted to link to my video review of the S20 Ultra. With 9-to-1 pixel binning from a massive sensor, it's...
View ArticleVideo: the 808 and 1020 have a spiritual successor... without Google
Having read my textual comparison between the Lumia 950 XL and the brand new Huawei P40 Pro, and then seen the imaging fight between the same two devices, how would you like my video review of the...
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The Nokia N95 'a high point for Symbian'
GSM Arena does love its 'flashback' articles. And it does a good job of summarising the various tech and devices on the whole. In the linked article, it flashes back to 2007 with the arrival of the...
View ArticleSo who wants to fold their smartphone in half?
One smartphone that I have in for review is the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, which - get this - folds in half! The main camera is similar to that in last year's Galaxy S series phones, which I've already...
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Imaging guru Marc Levoy quits Google
Apparently Marc Levoy, Google's answer to Nokia's Juha Alarkarhu and Eero Salmelin (from back in the day, the co-creators of the PureView system), has quit the company after being unhappy with how the...
View ArticleThe ruggedised QWERTY alternative?
Included here more for AAS readers perhaps than AAWP... since QWERTY designs were more common in the days of the Nokia E61, E71, E72, E7, N97 and the legendary E7. But of interest to others hopefully,...
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Juha Alakarhu on the Nokia 808, Lumia 1020, and more...
A blast from the past, but I had the pleasure of interviewing Juha Alakarhu on my most recent Phones Show Chat podcast, published yesterday and embedded below. Juha is, of course, the man who...
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