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Regarding Photographs: Reading Photos I

This is the third essay in this series, and it begins a smaller sequence of notes running over the ways we as viewers make sense of pictures. We spend, I think, too much time thinking about what happens before and during the making of a picture, but not enough on what happens when someone actually looks at it. For most of us, for most pictures, surely this is the most interesting time? How do we…
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Oppo Reno5 Pro+ 5G appears on TENAA, confirms most rumored specs

Oppo Reno5 Pro+ 5G is expected to arrive on December 24, blurring the lines between midrange and flagship. Rumors were claiming the phone will have a Snapdragon 865 chipset, four cameras with one of them bringing along a periscope lens, and plenty of storage options. The smartphone has finally appeared on TENAA, masked behind its model number PDRM00, confirming pretty much most claims and…
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Huawei nova 8, 8 Pro, and Enjoy 20 SE specs tipped

Huawei is set to introduce the nova 8 and nova 8 Pro smartphones on December 23. While no official specs have been teased yet an image shared by reveals the specifications of the nova 8 duo. The nova 8 Pro will be powered by the Kirin 985 SoC and support dual-mode 5G. It…
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Meet the realmeow, Realme's official mascot and Chief Trend Officer

Today’s announcement from Realme isn’t about a product but more about the vision of future products. The company has just announced its official mascot, who is also Realme’s so-called Chief Trend Officer. realmeow Working with Realme’s design team, famed animator Mark A. Walsh came up with realmeow. Walsh has worked on numerous animation films like Finding Nemo and…
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Oppo A15s price leaked ahead of launch

A few days ago, we saw a leaked banner that revealed the design and a few specs of the Oppo A15s. Now another poster has surfaced, telling us the A15s will cost INR11,490 ($155/€130) in India. The poster doesn’t include any new details but corroborates specs from the…
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Xiaomi Redmi K40 surfaces in a set of live images

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the Redmi K40, but we now get a set of live shots allegedly showing the phone in a design concealing case. The source says it’s the vanilla K40 but the design will probably be shared among the lineup…
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Samsung Galaxy A52 4G passes through Geekbench with Snapdragon 720G

The Samsung Galaxy A52 5G bearing model designation SM-A526B was spotted on Geekbench last month with a Snapdragon 750G SoC, 6GB RAM, and Android 11. Now the 4G variant (SM-A525F) has popped up in the benchmark’s database, which is powered by the Snapdragon 720G chipset, runs Android 11 and has 8GB RAM onboard. The 4G model scored higher than its 5G counterpart in both the single and…
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