At last, CBD explained in one image
All About Symbian Feb 02 12
When Nokia introduced CBD (ClearBlack Display) at Nokia World 2010, for the C6-01 and E7 models, there was an element of uncertainty involved as to how this technology worked. Certainly it was incredibly effective at cutting out reflections from ambient light, but noone seemed to know the full details. After much digging, we established it was something to do with polarising layers, but only now do we see a clear depiction of how CBD works.
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AAS Insight #213: beautiful phones and what next for N8 owners -
In All About Symbian Insight number 213, we start with the news of a fix for Nokia Maps Suite 2.0 installation and details of latest beta of Nokia Transport.
Don't forget Vlingo - now updated -
In all the fuss over Apple's (effectively bought in) Siri and Samsung's (effectively bought in) S-voice, Symbian owners eager for a little voice recognition action shouldn't forget about Vlingo, free for our OS and recently updated to v2.
Concluding the N86 experiment -
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361 Degrees Podcast - All things cloudy -
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YouTube Mobile in May 2012 - who needs a client? -
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Towards Belle Feature Pack 1 -
Up on Nokia's official YouTube channel is a short promo video for the upcoming Symbian Nokia Belle FP1, highlighting a few of its highlights (I'll refrain from being picky and pointing out that some of things mentioned are (ahem) already available, even for generic Belle devices).
PureView sample photos miss the point -
I'm rather disappointed that Nokia's latest set of sample 808 PureView photos completely miss the point of its own device.
N8 to 808 PureView: Where else would we go? -
With the world of Symbian seemingly shrinking around us, in terms of 'sales marketshare' at least, because of lack of presence in shops around the world, and with mainstream application development only including Symbian rarely, the question of 'where, if anywhere, should I go, after my N8?' is certainly a valid one.
WPEmu - turn Symbian into Windows Phone? Not quite... -
Now this is patently silly. And yet curiously cute and quirky at the same time. WPEmu puts an obviously fake and yet partly working Windows Phone front end onto a Symbian device, as shown below.
Review: iBomber Defence -
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