All About Digital Archive
The smartphone didn't arrive overnight. These sites covered every step, from the first true smartphones to the mobile computers that have shaped our world.
25 years of mobile technology publishing. Read more →
The Main Sites
2002 – 2022
The flagship site. Comprehensive coverage of Symbian smartphones, from Nokia's earliest devices through to the platform's final years. Reviews, features, application roundups, and deep technical coverage.
13,000+ articles · 20 years of publishing
2011 – 2022
Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile coverage: reviews, app roundups, camera comparisons, and platform analysis through Microsoft's mobile era and beyond.
8,000+ articles · 11 years of publishing
2021 – 2022
Cross-platform perspective after the decline of Symbian and Windows Phone, keeping the in-depth camera reviews and thorough approach the earlier sites had become famous for.
480+ articles
The Full Timeline
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1999 – 2001Where it started. A Psion and EPOC resource site on f2s free hosting. Sections grew into separate sites.
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2001 – 2002EPOC tips and how-to guides. Grew out of the help section on epoc.f2s.com.
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2002The ER6 platform: Sony Ericsson P800, Nokia 7650. Grew out of epoc.f2s.com, became All About Symbian in late 2002.
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2002 – 2022The flagship. 13,000+ articles. See above.
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2001 – 2013The community discussion forum. 76,000+ threads and 449,000+ posts covering every Symbian device. Originally powered by vBulletin, now preserved as a static archive.
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2003 – 2005An early email newsletter, calling back to the ezine era. Experimental, and ultimately the content was rolled back into AAS as RSS became more popular.
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2003 – 2010Nokia's gaming platform. 461 games catalogued across two generations (hardware and software platform). 651 exclusive editorial articles integrated into All About Symbian. Domain redirects preserve old links.
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2004 – 2010Themes and customisation for Symbian devices.
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2009 – 2011Nokia's Linux-based Maemo platform and the Nokia N900. Content carried forward into All About MeeGo (direct successor).
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2011 – 20228,000+ articles. See above.
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2010 – 2012373 articles covering MeeGo, Nokia N9, Maemo, and mobile Linux. Generated from the original CMS database.
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2021 – 2022Cross-platform mobile. See above.
Photo archive
2005 – 2014
~3,950 photos from Rafe's Flickr stream during the All About Symbian and All About Windows Phone years — Symbian and Nokia devices, Mobile World Congress, Nokia World, and other industry events. Self-contained static export from the Flickr Foundation Data Lifeboat service.