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Steve reviews the Nokia Lumia 520

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Nokia pushes Windows Phone hard into the £100 pay as you go market with the Lumia 520. The more Nokia push Windows Phone down into this price territory, the better it will do, I suspect – budget Android phones tend to be slow and clunky, whereas the 520, on the whole, flies. And with greater sales at the budget end will come marketshare increase and revenue, increasing awareness further up the price spectrum. Assuming that Windows Phone continues to grow, I suspect we’ll be looking back in a year’s time and realising just how much the Lumia 520 and 620

Don’t call it a Galaxy S3, you’ll make it mad

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Steve Litchfield on the Samsung ATIV S:  Navigation aside though, the extra bells and whistles of Nokia’s software additions can be largely matched (or at least equivalenced) with a few timely downloads from the Store on the ATIV S, making the latter’s unique selling points – its large and pleasing screen, its large capacity, removeable battery, its microSD expansion and flexibility, its use of faux-metal materials for a premium look (if not feel) – perhaps the critical factors in deciding which Windows Phone 8 handset to buy. Samsung has done a good job with the ATIV S’s hardware, producing something

…and now, a very special AAS Insight Guest Star

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The All About Symbian Insight podcasts have grown into something that a lot of people really enjoy. Steve, Rafe and I started to do record these a year or two ago, and they’ve grown in a rather organic way. The basic premise is the three of us sit down and chat about the latest news in the smartphone world, with a particular (but not exclusive) emphasis on Symbian OS. But that premises, like many, has evolved over time. There are little in-jokes and recurring situations (Steve bringing up the good old days, myself mentioning Hawkwind or other Prog Rock groups,

The Symbian Smartphone Show Recap

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Well I say recap, but I think the next two or three weeks over on All About Symbian will be taken up with a lot of writing from this week’s Smartphone Show at Earl’s Court. Anyway, while you’re waiting for that, the podcast from the event is now available… [audio:http://mediafiles.allaboutsymbian.com/aas_podcast_smartphoneshow2008_20081022_97.mp3] Download MP3 – Podcast RSS – Show Notes And while you listen to that, post your entries here for the All About Symbian Smartphone Show caption competition…