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Situation: positive – make your Symbian smartphone do the thinking for you

Situations is a Symbian app for making your smartphone a bit more intelligent. At the core of the app is the ability to define situations that change your phone’s settings depending on the context. To give two examples: If I am at home (which the phone knows from its GPS co-ordinates) and it’s after 11pm, then switch all the ringtones to silent until 6am.When I arrive at the office, switch on the WiFi and start my News Reader app. The app was originally created as a Nokia Beta Labs experiment, but has now been spun off and continues to be developed as a commercial application by Pastilli Labs, founded by Roope Tassberg and Heikki Haveri. We spoke to Roope to find out more. “We’re a very small development company based in Tampere in Finland. At the moment, Situations is a spare time project. “But it seems very important to us. We call these things smartphones, but why don’t they do things for us? We want to let people get more out of their phones.”   The relaunch of Situations called f...