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"Why I will never again buy a smartphone with a sealed battery"
File this under 'too controversial for publication directly on these hallowed pages', but I wanted to vent my opinions on one of the (seemingly necessary?) evils of the current smartphone age: sealed...
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Fruit Lee brings button-mashing Game & Watch with a 2012 look
You'll remember that I highlighted Alien Juggler a few days ago, emulating one of the old 'Game & Watch' titles from thirty years ago? Fruit Lee is very much in the same vein in terms of gameplay,...
View Article361 Degrees Podcast - "More tablets, but what (and who) for?"
The 361 Degrees Podcast has returned for a fourth season. In the third episode of the new season, we talk about the tablet market, prompted by the recent arrival of several new entrants. And remember...
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Great night photo examples from the Nokia 808 and Lumia 920
I was taken with some of Marc's test photos here, snapped in extremely low light on the Nokia 808 and Lumia 920, exploring what each phone camera can do in Amsterdam's harbour. The 808's shots are...
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Review: FixTheNet
If FixTheNet's screens (below) look familiar, that's because the game is a port of QtNetWalk, itself a version of the NetWalk arcade puzzler 'for system administrators' (available in numerous forms,...
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FramePic offers social photo mashups but is flawed
Although I'm not a fan of social photo sharing apps which downsample my lovely originals massively, I'm going to make an exception for FramePic, a tool which is unashamed in the way it mashes JPGs...
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Nokia 3D World Gaze experimental beta 'concluded'
We've covered the development of Nokia 3D World Gaze from the beginning, though it never really seemed to shake off the 'beta' tag and always remained a well-programmed, interesting novelty...
View ArticleWhen the drums and bass really kick in - the 808 Rich Recording
We haven't featured an 808-shot music video for a while, but this one's worth a look, of Anneke van Giersbergen and band, live in Moscow. Skip the first minute of build up and then enjoy, especially...
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What if?... The ultimate Symbian optimisation gains you up to 80MB of system...
We've all thought it at one time or another. Faced with a Symbian smartphone which is coping, but not quite as lightning fast as when we first had it, faced with a system disk (C:) which is edging the...
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Mini Review - Castle Defender
Going by the title, Castle Defender sounds like it would be yet another tower defence game. That class of game entails deploying gun turrets along the route of an enemy march. This is not the case for...
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qooWeather updated
Today, the qooWeather widget app, by qooApps, was updated to version 4.0.1. It was recently taken to version 4, which was a major overhaul of the application; this latest update fixes graphical and...
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Immaculate 'Fall HD' theme perfectly reflects the season
Although we're still at the boundary of Belle Feature Pack 2 vs 'the rest' compatibility, and thus the commercial theme Fall HD, shown below, doesn't work fully with the latest Symbian version on the...
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The Nokia Store fails to serve up app descriptions [update: fixed]
The Nokia Store servers are, it seems, broken. I've checked on multiple devices and on multiple platforms (i.e. including Meego) and all applications, games and other content are being presented with...
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Nokia introduces HERE as its location and mapping platform
Nokia today introduced HERE, the new brand for its Location platform, which it says is "the first location cloud to deliver the world's best maps ad location experiences across multiple screens and...
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Checking yourself with BMI Calculator: Ideal weight
Body Mass Index calculators are fairly common in the application world, but this new Qt-written one caught my eye by virtue of being attractive, foolproof and free. BMI Calculator: Ideal weight also...
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Mini Review - Clever Frog
Frogs don't seem to be the smartest members of the animal kingdom, but that didn't stop some enterprising developers coming up with the game CleverFrog. Maybe they know something the rest of us don't!...
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Getting creative with ISO adjustment on the Nokia 808 and Lumia 920
With light levels going down every day, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, it's perhaps only natural to start experimenting with some of the Nokia 808's and Lumia 920's 'Creative' controls for...
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Incredible Circus comes to Belle FP2
No, amazingly, this isn't a totally new game, but a) it's recently updated in the Nokia Store (presumably Belle FP2 compatibility - I was testing it on the Nokia 808) and b) we've never even mentioned...
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Poddi Pocatcher updated to 1.1.1
Poddi Podcatcher is one of the few (read - two) serious podcast clients for Symbian. Our recent review conclused by hoping for more development and addition of missing features. The developer has been...
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Camera phone ISO adjustment: Part 2 - use cases
In part 1 of this feature, I introduced the concept of ISO adjustment and showed some rather extreme examples to illustrate how the apparent sensitivity of the sensor is increased. In this, part 2, I...
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