My routine weekly early trip to the local farmer's market does enlighten the day on occasions when the early morning sun decides to break the horizon and splash the world with its bright streaming rays. Opportunities abound, I only had the aging but still trustworthy HMD Nokia 3.1 in hand, and for the quick shoot session here, I was among the myriad of lights and shades along the five-foot way of a nearby building.
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 13MP rear camera on the HMD Nokia 3.1, incidentally, is the only camera in my collection with images that can be easily converted to Reverse Vignettes on the desktop editor with a single step adjustment to the Shadows Compensation feature.
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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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