In my last review, I looked at an application that tried to bring the multitasking view from MeeGo Harmattan to Symbian.

Talk about a blast from the past from an unexpected direction! Over on the Cult of Mac (no, really), there's a cute little article entitled 'Why I Still Use A Ten-Year Old Sony Ericsson P900', in which Charlie Sorrel admits that, even in 2012, he still uses, out of preference, a Symbian-powered Sony Ericsson P900 to accompany his iPad, quoting great build quality, the ease of unlocking the keypad and starting an application, and the excellent handwriting recognition.

Yesterday was the Nokia 808 PureView's big outing, in the eyes of many of the world's top journalists, with a tour of the Carl Zeiss factory and hours of hands on time wih the device.

I'm not a lover of cute and cuddly image filters, Instagram-style, as many of you know - why bring the mighty cameras of today's smartphones down to 2003 levels of quality and resolution? However, PhotoFunia promises to work and act differently - the idea here is to take a photographed face and do 'interesting' composites with it, with the heavyweight processing working server-side.

Nokia Converations reports that the format of the next Nokia World will be a departure from previous events.

As you know, we don't go a bundle on rumours at All About Symbian, but when a quote is (reportedly) from a Nokia spokesperson's mouth, then that lends enough credibility.

Doing the rounds today on the Interwebs are a series of videos from Bill Hammack, 'The Engineer Guy', looking at how a number of things work - who doesn't love this sort of common man explanation of some really clever science and engineering? Embedded below are three of the most relevant videos, covering smartphone accelerometers, LCD displays and overall design constraints.

Otherwise known as ridiculously blinged out Nokia C7s, Vertu has announced three new colour/material variants of the Constellation, each dubbed 'Candy': Raspberry, Mint Green and Tangerine (image below!) The main differences from the C7 (other than price!) are that each has 32GB fixed memory and there's a louder speaker.

You may remember that I covered how to move Handy Safe Pro data from a Symbian smartphone to a Windows Phone? Along the same lines but thinking laterally, away from the Symbian/Windows Phone axis, I've been mulling over how to get my Handy Safe Pro data to a 2012 Android smartphone with integrated storage - it's not as trivial as you might think and requires some work.

I'm sure I've seen similar applications for iOS, but it turns out Symbian can do this too - FlightAware, free in the Nokia Store, lets you track commercial planes in mid air, plus there's detailed take-off and landing information.