Publication: All About Symbian

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Ow Kah Leong's Nokia 808 PureView: One year on

In this feature, guest writer Ow Kah Leong rounds up a year of the Nokia 808 PureView as his principal phone, smartphone, camera and travel companion. While acknowledging areas in which Symbian may have slipped behind, it seems as if the 808's build quality, ... [Published All About Symbian - May 20 2013]
First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

MeeBible adds new translations, plus social and direct sharing options

Updated in the Nokia Store is the open source (free) MeeBible front end to numerous Bible translations, along with the facility to download any for offline reading. You may remember my original review of MeeBible? This new version 3.0 (3.05[4], to be ... [Published All About Symbian - May 17 2013]
First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

RubiBox (Box.com client) gets a major v2.0 update, multiple account support

Box.com (née Box.net) rarely gets the same press that DropBox or Google Drive get, but it's arguably just as useful. And you may not have remembered that there's a fairly fully featured Symbian client for this cloud storage service in the free (well, ... [Published All About Symbian - May 17 2013]
First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Shooting for the stars with the Nokia 808

Fresh from my (and others) attempts to capture the moon with the Nokia 808 PureView, I was interested to see that 808 photographer extraordinaire Richard Dorman has been going one step further and trying to capture the stars . See below for the proof. ... [Published All About Symbian - May 16 2013]
First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

PhotProc brings professional image processing, but patience needed

Jaw-droppingly impressive. And jaw-droppingly impractical at the same time. But that's what you get for doing some incredibly maths-intensive work on a smartphone, even the 1.5GHz Nokia 808 PureView. The somewhat unimaginatively named PhotProc (I imagine ... [Published All About Symbian - May 16 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Symbian Belle platform variants all get Email, Calendar and Music updates

The OS that just won't die? Two years and three months after Symbian was publicly put on life support, the platform updates keep coming, with the rollout today for all Belle Refresh and Feature Pack 2 smartphones of a 6MB Email and Calendar update, incorporating ... [Published All About Symbian - May 15 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Nokia Suite gets another big new stable release, v3.8 is a 'go'

Available now is a new release on the 'non-beta' track of Nokia Suite, v3.8.30, following the release of a 3.8 beta a month or two ago, with the main changes over the previous stable release, 3.7.22, being better SkyDrive migration and a mountain of 'reliability' ... [Published All About Symbian - May 15 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

By popular demand... the 808 rematched with the SGS4, with no holds barred

My 5-camera 7-scene test , earlier this week, provoked a lot of comment along the lines of "ah, but you left the Nokia 808 on default settings for almost all of that, if you'd have used Creative mode properly, the 808 would have fared a lot better!" Maybe. ... [Published All About Symbian - May 15 2013]
First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

SkyDrive uploader rolls out for the Nokia 808 and other Belle FP2 devices

You may remember that Nokia issued a rather primitive SkyDrive uploader for Symbian to Belle Refresh devices last year, followed up by a more polished version two months ago? The idea was to ease the uploading of contacts and photos to Microsoft's live.com, ... [Published All About Symbian - May 14 2013]
First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Meanwhile, over on Windows Phone... the 6-element, ISO3200 camera in the Lumia 925

Purely as a link of interest for All About Symbian readers, who will be only too aware that I've compared the Lumia 920 to the best camera-centric smartphones from the Symbian world many times (usually unfavourably), worth noting that Nokia has just announced ... [Published All About Symbian - May 14 2013]
First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

BBC iPlayer licenses no longer being served to Symbian smartphones

You may remember that, a few months ago, the BBC's iPlayer team had a bit of an early spring clean, removing official support for all Symbian smartphones ? Happily, in that story, I was able to share the small trick that still let users 'download' programmes ... [Published All About Symbian - May 11 2013]
First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Belle Extra Buttons gets Swipe, Status Pane Button flexibility and Tactile feedback

You may remember that I posted about the huge update to Belle Extra Buttons, to v2.1, a couple of months ago? Well, now we apparently have v2.2 and it's also a biggie, with 'Swipe Feature, Status Pane Buttons, Tactile feedback and more'. Full changelog ... [Published All About Symbian - May 10 2013]

Quotes

My 5-camera 7-scene test , earlier this week, provoked a lot of comment along the lines of "ah, but you left the Nokia 808 on default settings for almost all of that, if you'd have used Creative mode properly, the 808 would have fared a lot better!" Maybe. In the two examples below, I just show the two main contenders tackling a distant detail and an extreme macro...
"Our technology is not mutually exclusive with Nokia's. We can take elements of what they're doing and improve what we can do. There are some synergies that will lead to some pretty exciting possibilities that we're actually beginning to work on today, although I can't talk about it yet."
...(seemingly) of a new series over at My Nokia Blog, 'deaconclgi' has highlighted a long unsung hero of Symbian: its file system and File manager ( "Files' on newer phones). With iPhones and Windows Phones not having any user accessible file system, and with many Android phones not coming with a file manager at all, it's a timely reminder of how good Symbian S60 users have had it over the last ten years. Quotes below."
...Sigh. When will companies stop fiddling with their public APIs? Gravity 2.82 build 7289 is available within the alpha beta track inside the app ( "Info and updates') or you can grab it directly here."

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Ow Kah Leong's Nokia 808 PureView: One year on [Published All About Symbian - May 20 2013]
MeeBible adds new translations, plus social and... [Published All About Symbian - May 17 2013]
RubiBox (Box.com client) gets a major v2.0 upda... [Published All About Symbian - May 17 2013]
Shooting for the stars with the Nokia 808 [Published All About Symbian - May 16 2013]
PhotProc brings professional image processing, ... [Published All About Symbian - May 16 2013]
Symbian Belle platform variants all get Email, ... [Published All About Symbian - May 15 2013]
Nokia Suite gets another big new stable release... [Published All About Symbian - May 15 2013]
By popular demand... the 808 rematched with the... [Published All About Symbian - May 15 2013]
SkyDrive uploader rolls out for the Nokia 808 a... [Published All About Symbian - May 14 2013]
Meanwhile, over on Windows Phone... the 6-eleme... [Published All About Symbian - May 14 2013]
BBC iPlayer licenses no longer being served to ... [Published All About Symbian - May 11 2013]
Belle Extra Buttons gets Swipe, Status Pane But... [Published All About Symbian - May 10 2013]
4K time lapse footage shot on the Nokia 808 Pur... [Published All About Symbian - May 09 2013]
2013 could be the year of Xenon [Published All About Symbian - May 09 2013]
Adventures in custom firmware: Nokia E6 'Belle ... [Published All About Symbian - May 07 2013]
Invaders Strike - hot finger blasting [Published All About Symbian - May 07 2013]
Barbarian Snake adds twists galore [Published All About Symbian - May 06 2013]
Adding Mirror, Stopwatch, Flashlight, etc. to B... [Published All About Symbian - May 06 2013]
Nokia 808 - Picture Perfection? [Published All About Symbian - May 05 2013]
AAS Insight #237: 3G fix, widgets, and themes [Published All About Symbian - May 04 2013]
Belle FP1/FP2 smartphones also get 'Fix for Mes... [Published All About Symbian - May 03 2013]
Pelican Imaging's array camera coming to a smar... [Published All About Symbian - May 03 2013]
Belle Extra Taskbars/StartMenu - part Symbian, ... [Published All About Symbian - May 02 2013]
Colourful logic in Flow XXL will drive you INSANE [Published All About Symbian - May 01 2013]
Sony Honami may bring a camera to Android that'... [Published All About Symbian - May 01 2013]
How to: work round Nokia Store install problems [Published All About Symbian - May 01 2013]
Time lapse and lossless zoom examples on the No... [Published All About Symbian - May 01 2013]
Uniquely Symbian: Files [Published All About Symbian - Apr 30 2013]
Alvin gives up on the E71 after six days and fi... [Published All About Symbian - Apr 30 2013]
Belle FP2 devices get a 3G network fix, the 808... [Published All About Symbian - Apr 29 2013]
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