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Accessing AAS via limited connectivity? Don't forget the true mobile site!
A couple of years ago, Rafe gave All About Symbian a bit of a facelift, complete with responsive design that ensured that the full site can be adapted, on the fly, to any device, from a phone to a...
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Green.tv rolls out on Symbian
Green.tv, as it sounds, a video-centric service dedicated to 'green'/ecological issues, has rolled out to Symbian (^3/Anna/Belle onwards), with a series of free mini-apps for the platform in the Nokia...
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Low light firework sky trails with the 808
As it's officially 'fireworks night' tonight, and in light of my recent testing of the WP-powered Nokia Lumia 920 and its low light capabilities, I thought I'd link to a great example of how well the...
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Belle Refresh rolls out to more Symbian^3 generation devices
We reported recently that a number of Symbian^3 generation devices (e.g. N8, etc.) received an application update with the homescreen widgets from Belle Feature Pack 2 (FP2). While many (including...
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qooRSS updated to 1.0.4 with kinetic scrolling
Recently, we reviewed qooRSS, an alternative RSS reader and widget for Symbian devices. Our original review left us wanting more from the application. Fortunately, the team at qooApps have been working...
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Review: Mugen Power 3000mAh Extended Battery for Nokia 808 PureView
What do you get the Nokia 808 PureView owner who's got everything? Why, an extra 1700mAh or so of battery power, of course! This is the official Mugen Power extended battery, complete with replacement...
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FilesPlus, the cloud-integrated file manager?
It has to be said that Symbian is not exactly short of file manager utilities. Part of the benefit of a fully open file system in an OS (unlike those in Windows Phone and iOS, for example) is that...
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247 Sport offers top UK-centric sports news and live stats
Need to know the current score in that Test Match or horse race? How far behind Seb Vettel is Fernando Alonso in Formula 1? Launched a few days ago, 247 Sport on Symbian is a lot more than a humble...
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Star Jim a challenging platformer
I honestly don't know what to make of Star Jim, a refuge from the iOS world that's now available on Symbian. You see, this platform game has a steep difficulty curve and I find my arcade skills rather...
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Review: Warspear Online
Calling all Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) fans. As unlikely as a phone-based MMORPG sounds, that's exactly what Warspear Online is, and is available for Symbian no less. If...
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Star Trails the perfect theme for older phones?
As you know, I keep my eyes open for unusual or striking themes, in this case falling in love with this night sky-themed design from theme-maker favourite MMMOOO, but in particular for some of my older...
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'Retro'? THIS is retro: Alien Juggler takes you back 30 years!
Remember 'Game & Watch'? I do. Just about. We're talking 1980 or so, so over 30 years ago. A time in which games ran at one frame a second with a resolution of.... well, less than about 20 pixels...
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Gravity gets smoother scrolling on N8 and E7 (etc)
I guess I'm getting a bit over-zealous at tracking the continuing improvements to Gravity for Symbian, but this update "Version 2.80 Build 7235 - 07 Nov 2012" seemed rather important as it hopes to fix...
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Catch up with Rafe on the next 361 Degrees live recording in London
Once a year (or thereabouts), the 361 Degrees trio, of which our own Rafe Blandford is an essential member, has their podcast in public, with special guests and questions from the audience. This is...
View ArticleAll About... the Nokia Location Platform
Nokia has put up a self-promoting video, embedded below, talking about the work that's gone into the 'Nokia Location Platform', but looking as well at map creation and also applications on smartphones....
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Situations app updated with more triggers and actions
We reported earlier in the year that the behind Nokia Situations had formed Pastili Labs and launched Situations as a commercial product. The application has now been updated with a free and paid for...
View ArticleAAS Insight #227: retro phones and camera shoot outs
In All About Symbian Insight number 227, Steve and Rafe kick off proceedings with a discussion of our recent PureView shoot out (Lumia 920 versus 808 PureView), and offer an opinion on which is the...
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The Symbian fan's 'platform switching' guide: 10 crucial functions
Of course, the very title is somewhat contradictory - if you're a fan of something then why would you switch? But there's a question that's been on all our minds for a year or two now: "Given what we...
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Berry Buster leaps from Blackberry to provide a challenging puzzle
Unusually, here's a title which has come across from Blackberry, of all platforms. Hence the name, though the actual gameplay will be somewhat familiar. Berry Buster is perfectly pitched in terms of...
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Fox and Geese brings a taste of 14th century gaming
More puzzling, this time from 14th century Scandinavia, with a marble-based strategy puzzler. Playing as either fox or geese, you aim to outwit your opponent (or the phone AI). Beautifully illustrated...
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