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Users (and wannabe users) of the Facebook client fMobi may have wondered what was going on recently, with login issues due to 'permissions' changes at Facebook's end and the application pulled from the Nokia Store.

You'll remember that I recently took seven common end-user 'snap' scenes with a number of smartphone cameras and concluded, that for these scenes at least, the new Samsung Galaxy S4 matched the Nokia 808 PureView overall, much to my surprise.

Whether used explicitly, or bundled into another application such as gNewsReader or Gravity, there's been a heavy reliance in the Symbian world on Google Reader, the industry standard way of consuming RSS feeds from web pages across the Internet.

I'm stunned. I really am. In an over-the-top way. AndroMenu Extra Buttons is just about the most powerful and customisable utility I've ever seen - on any platform.

The little voice recognition utility (that could) for Symbian, Dictate, has carried on getting updates, with this latest, v2.

Now, bear with me here, since I know nothing whatsoever about Softair, but I gather it's a replica weapon paintball-like sport that's mostly legal across the world? SoftairRealFight is a free smartphone aid that's available now for Symbian and Meego but 'coming soon' to other mobile platforms.

The huge homescreen gallery for general Symbian smartphones was a great success yesterday, but there was one device that was largely overlooked, with different shaped screen and very different needs.

Following on from previous 'anatomy' pieces from myself, I couldn't help but feature the image below from a third party, Martin Jeppesen, who was experimenting with his Nokia 808 PureView and some seagulls(!) See the results below and be prepared for your jaw to drop.

Following Google's IO conference, almost every Google application for Android (and most for iOS) got a revamp, but don't think that other platforms are totally left out in the cold - there's been serious work going on for the mobile web front of Mountain View's big social service too.

I asked a few days ago for screen grabs of your Symbian homescreens, so that we can all learn and take inspiration from the set-up efforts of the wider AAS community - and here I present the results, thanks to everyone for your submissions, from all across the world.

Flickr is the oldest photo sharing service on the Internet and remains a favourite of many tech-literate people, not least because there's more emphasis placed on quality, resolution and general re-usability.

Ah yes, these All About sites, where a certain writer has been shouting about the benefits of a proper Xenon flash for the last six YEARS.

Maybe it's just us Brits, but most of us do like to chat about the weather - which is where WeatherTalk Qt arguably comes in, providing a basic (Foreca-powered) weather forecasting utility, with built-in Facebook sharing.

Your site needs YOU! Preparing for a feature on homescreen philosophies here on All About Symbian, I show below my own homescreen arrangement, but I suspect that there are some far more ambitious layouts on reader phones.

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.

The ink's still not dry on the Lumia 925 press releases and already we're hearing renewed rumours about the mysterious Nokia EOS (codename, of course), thanks to a 'sighting' by a reader of WMPoweruser, quoted below.

Ever wondered how much energy a Nokia phone consumes during in its lifetime? What about the amount of CO2 emissions? Nokia's recently released sustainability report provides an answer for "a typical mobile device".

This week Nokia published its annual corporate social responsibility and sustainability report ("Nokia People & Planet Report 2012").

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.

Box.com (née Box.net) rarely gets the same press that DropBox or Google Drive get, but it's arguably just as useful.