This is one of those occasions, and as I walked along the five-foot way of a building adjacent to the Farmer's Market location, among the myriad of lights and shades the sun was playing with...
I had the aging HMD Nokia 3.1, an entry-level Android smartphone released by HMD Global in May 2018, with me then, and these were the recollections on the morning.
The Android One budget phone, launched in 2018, features a 5.2-inch HD with an 18:9 aspect ratio and 2.5D curved Gorilla Glass, a MediaTek MT6750 octa-core processor, 2GB or 3GB RAM, 16GB or 32GB storage, an aluminum frame with a 2.5D curved Corning Gorilla Glass screen, a 13MP rear and an 8MP front camera, and runs on a 2,990 mAh non-removable Li-ion battery.
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The camera on the HMD Nokia 3.1, incidentally, is the only one in my collection that captures images that can be easily converted to Reverse Vignettes with a single step adjustment to the Shadows Compensation feature on the desktop editor.
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Reverse Vignettes is an image editing technique to draw attention to the center of the image by brightening up the edges and corners of a photo, the opposite of darkening them as seen on traditional vignettes. Steps to edit RAW images for the same effect can also be found on full-featured, purchased image editing tools, and could be rather tedious or cumbersome.
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Android One, the OS installed on the HMD Nokia 3.1, is a Google initiative to offer smartphones with a clean, user-friendly experience with a near-stock version of Android, with promises of regular OS and security updates, installed with a small suite of supporting apps. Introduced initially to focus on budget devices in emerging markets, the OS was later expanded to include mid-range and high-end devices, including Nokia.
The caveat, while the system is still active, it is currently in a state of limbo, with an uncertain future, as seen with the slow pace of updates, the limited number of devices launched with the system, and the big G not actively promoting it.
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