Steve, Rafe and Ewan discuss their highlights and lowlights from 2008.In this podcast we cover: Happy New Year to everyone!   Highlights from 2008 (one-ish from each person).  Lowlights from 2008 (also known as rants)  A few predictions throw in (more in due course)  Software highlights for 2008 (Google Maps, N-Gage, Nokia Messaging)   Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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Steve and Ewan round up the last of the news before Christmas turns up in the latest All About Symbian Insight podcast.In this podcast we cover: Where's Rafe this week? How to finance a Web 2.0 project, such as Nokia Messaging. (Ps Flickr is $20 a year, not a month as Ewan says in the podcast). Fresh out the beta labs, thoughts on Nokia Image Exchange. Resident Evil and MGS Mobile on the N-Gage. Vodafone and their official Last.FM client for S60. And we close with a Christmas song from Geoff Smith. Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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Steve talks to Rafe and Ewan in the brief minutes they are home from their travels in December to talk about the latest happenings in the world of Symbian, including the BBC World Service, thoughts on the N97, the Orange Partner Camp and the surge of N-Gage titles in December.In this podcast we cover: Rafe's attendance at the Microsoft Mobius Summit The Orange Partner Camp at Cape Canaveral. Thoughts on Google Maps 2.3, the new PC Suite and Sony Ericsson's role in the Open Handset Alliance. Some early thoughts on the N97 hardware. First impressions of the iPhone 3G as Ewan recieves a loan unit from O2. The surge of N-Gage titles and why this provides confidence in the marketplace. Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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Steve, Rafe and Ewan chat about Nokia World 2008.  Steve, Rafe and Ewan chat about Nokia World 2008, including: Nokia Messaging, Mail on Ovi, IM services, pricing issues Maps 3.0 and Maps on Ovi Nokia's presentation attitude in the keynotes Nokia N97 - specs, marketing, hands-on opinions, So-Lo (Social Location) integration

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Rafe, Steve and Ewan discuss the latest news from the Symbian World. Steve talks about  his N79 experience, Ewan has an N85 and Rafe waffles about the state of the open platform market.In this podcast we cover: Insight number 50 - woohoo!  Incoming Samsung I7110, review coming soon.  Ewan's first week with the N85 - the mature Nseries?  Steve's opinion on the N79 - new Nseries hero for everyone?  Rafe offers an opinion on the state of the mobile open platform marketplace and says there's a need (especially in the light of media hype) to differentiate between the high end where there's lot of competition and the mid tier where S60's competition comes, not from other open platforms, but from Series 40 and other 'closed' feature phone 'platforms'.   Nokia World is next week. Rafe will be reporting live from Barcelona. Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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Mobile Web server, TD-SCDMA on S60, Nokia Developer Days (Budapest) and Nokia hardware testingIn this podcast we cover: Nokia Mobile Web Server  TD-SCDMA on S60 Developer Day(s) in Budapest including Bluetooth 'surevying', marketing software and WRT Code Camp. Steve's visit to Nokia's hardware testing facility Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Want to be a guest on the show (recordings take place via Skype on Friday)? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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Rafe talks about the INQ1, Steve on the N96, everyone on the E63 and Rafe on Qt.In this podcast we cover: Rafe on the launch and implications of the INQ1 (shortly to be available on 3 in the UK, the so-called Facebook phone).  Steve on his N96 experience Nokia E63 - the new mid-tier Eseries device from Nokia What is Qt? Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Want to be a guest on the show (recordings take place via Skype on Friday)? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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Rafe, Steve and Ewan talk about gloom and doom. Canalys numbers, N-Gage and UIQ. Doom!In this podcast we cover: Canalys numbers (more than meets the eye). We talk about recent device shipment numbers and the future.   Ewan rants about N-Gage and recent numbers from the Nokia Gaming Summit. Steve dislikes DRM. Rafe disagrees (a bit). UIQ staff put on notice.  We'll try and cheer up for next week. Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Want to be a guest on the show (recordings take place via Skype on Friday)? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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Rafe, Steve and Ewan chat about the N96 and other news from the ecosystem. There also further discussion on UIQ following on from the Symbian Smartphone Show.In this podcast we cover: Steve talks about the N96 and the mixed reviews we;ve been seeing on the web.  DataViz have released RoadSync version 4. Ewan's first impressions of the N-Gage game ONE. Manufacturers commitment to the Symbian Foundation (Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson). Discussion about UIQ. What role can in play in the future? Sorry the podcast is late this week - Rafe got side tracked! Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Want to be a guest on the show (recordings take place via Skype on Friday)? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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Rafe, Steve and Ewan report back from the Smartphone Show 2008. We'll be covering the show in the next few Insights, but you can get the highlights here.In this podcast we cover: First impressions of the show? Location, visitor numbers and the buzz.  Symbian Foundation. Lee Williams nominated as the Executive Director. Governance of the Foundation. Goodbye UIQ (more on this in a future show). S60 as a platform for Internet Services From the show floor, including, but not limited to: Samsung L7110, Ruby, Quickoffice, Symbian demos, Qt on S60, Symbian RAW, ARM Profiler, DevFest, Dashwire, LG KT615 and more.  A thank you to our listeners (Ewan impersonates Ech the dog). Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Want to be a guest on the show (recordings take place via Skype on Friday)? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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'As Live' from the 2008 Symbian Smartphone Show, hosted by Ewan Spence, with Rafe Blandford and Steve Litchfield; guests include (but not limited to ) Nigel Clifford, Stuart Clark, Andrew Grill and James Whatley.Contents (not in specific order, we chop and change a lot...!): Steve, Ewan, Rafe, Stuart Clark (what will we see?) Rafe (Symbian keynote) Stuart Clark (Samsung keynote) Nigel Clifford (his keynote) Andrew Grill from London Calling (Mobile Advertising and Economic Impact on this) Steve (Skyhook & Quickoffice) James Whatley (MIR - the press goodie bag) Steve (Red Bend and Virtual Logix) World of Nokia Steve, Ewan, Rafe (NS Basic, S60, round up event, Dream Spring and final thoughts)   [Closing track, Spaghetti Who, by Cellar Set]  

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Ewan, Steve and Rafe talk about firmware updates, S60 5th Edition and more.In this podcast we cover: Steve's experience with a recent E90 upgrade. Why can't Nokia Software Updater be better?  A discussion around the relevance of a recent comparison article S60 5th Edition thoughts and reflections. Some discussion on backwards compatibility. Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Want to be a guest on the show (recordings take place via Skype on Friday)? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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In an extended edition of the AAS Insight Rafe, Ewan and Steve talk about the Nokia Remix Event, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Comes with Music.In this podcast we cover: Nokia Remix Event  Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Nokia Comes with Music Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Want to be a guest on the show (recordings take place via Skype on Friday)? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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Rafe, Steve and Ewan talk about the N96 and BBC iPlayer, Android and N-Gage.In this podcast we cover: N96 and BBC iPlayer (does DVB-H matter)? Launch of T-Mobile G1 (first Android phone), we discuss some first impressions N-Gage - upcoming titles and state of play Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Want to be a guest on the show (recordings take place via Skype on Friday)? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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Rafe and Steve talk about SMP, Nokia N79 and Gaming.In this podcast we cover: N82 v30 Firmware, news or not? Visit to Symbian, part 1: Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) - Symbian OS on multiple processor cores. Steve's first impressions of the Nokia N79 Upcoming previews Gaming - discussing N-Gage and iPhone  Got a question or a topic you would like us to ponder and discuss in the next podcast? Want to be a guest on the show (recordings take place via Skype on Friday)? Got some feedback from us (love it or hate it)? Get in touch and let us know.

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