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Steve’s top ten reasons for continuing to use a Symbian smartphone in 2013

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Steve Litchfield, on ‘All About Symbian’: Symbian hasn’t been in my twice-yearly Phones Show ‘top 5’ recommendations for a year now, but what I recommend to the ‘great unwashed’ isn’t necessarily an accurate reflection of my innermost thoughts in terms of my own smartphone use. My SIM card bounces between over twenty smartphones each year, yet it keeps coming back to the Nokia 808 PureView (and, occasionally, the E6), at which point I have enormous fun trying to analyse my own motives for doing so. So, almost off the top of my head, here are ten reasons ‘Why Symbian?’ and

Fifty Fun Facts About Eurovision (Beginners Guide pt 5)

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The final part of the Beginners Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest today is less about the mechanics of the contest, running orders and scoring, and more about the delight of Song Contest itself. I decided to switch the camera on and talk about the trivia, the fun, and the facts that raise eyebrows about Eurovision, and mentally started counting till I reached fifty. I went a little bit over! Anyway, here you go, a delightful stroll in the mind of a Eurovision’ite. A fan who’s now packing a bag ready to fly to the contest and be there, live,

[Mashed] Top Ten Tips To Survive the BBC Mashed Experience

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So it’s that time of year again, when the great and the good gather to watch the pivotal episode of the Doctor Who season gather in Alexandra Palace for two days (and one night) of hacking, coding, building, geeking out, and other stuff – BBC Mashed. Yes I’m there again; no I’m not building a rocket (but Ant is); yes I am doing something (ask me tomorrow); and yes I’ll speak to you if you point a video camera at me. In the meantime though, there seems to be a lot of people attending the event who weren’t there last

Top Ten: Why Mobile Phones Haven’t Changed The World.

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Posted over on All About Symbian are my Top Ten Reasons Why Mobile Phones Haven’t Changed The World; the top three were… The first cameras required you to stand still while the picture was being taken. More than one hundred years later, you need to call ‘stop’ and have everyone freeze while your camera application opens up. The hip and cool thing to have in the 1950’s and 60’s was a transistor radio, with a tinny speaker, pushing out the hits of Dusty Springfield, Johnny Cash for all to hear. Now we’ve left the personal stereo era behind and are

Top Ten Things To Watch For on Sky’s Blake’s 7 Revivial

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Hmm, Blake’s 7 is coming back to Sky, is it? Right then, time for a Top Ten things I’m going to be watching out for in the new series… 1. Avon, strapped into some diabolical torture device, keeping him on the edge of death (yet in horrible pain) for the 25 years since the shoot-out where all his friends were killed. I think this would look lovely on Servalan’s wall (this opening scenario from Matthew ‘Life on Mars’ Graham). 2. In all seriousness, the decision to do a reboot (a la Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica) or a continuation (the current