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Kenko Tokina forms alliance with Carl Zeiss to be its distributor for lenses and more in Japan

March 3, 2021
A Carl Zeiss Apo Sonnar 135mm F2.8 lens attached to a Sony mirrorless camera. Kenko Tokina has announced a new business alliance with Carl Zeiss that will see Kenko Tokina take over sales and repair services for Carl Zeiss products in Japan, including interchangeable photo lenses. In the announcement, made on Kenko Tokina’s website (translated), the Japanese company says the partnership will…
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Quality Match raises $6 million to build better AI datasets

March 2, 2021
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Quality Match, a Heidelberg, Germany-based quality data annotation provider, today announced that it raised a €5 million ($6 million) seed round from LEA Partners. The company says it’ll use the proceeds to expand its team and accelerate product development. Training AI and machine learning algorithms…
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Oppo F19 Pro and F19 Pro+ teased ahead of launch in India

March 2, 2021
The Chief Marketing Officer of Oppo India tweeted out the following teaser for the upcoming F19 Pro series. Two models are mentioned by name – Oppo F19 Pro and F19 Pro+ 5G (there should be a vanilla F19 too). We only get a vague “coming soon” for the launch date, but…
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DxOMark gives the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra a lower score than the S20 Ultra

March 2, 2021
DxOMark has finished its camera review of the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (using an Exynos-powered unit) and the results are not good – the overall score is just 121. Not only is that low, but it’s less than the 126 points awarded to the Galaxy S20 Ultra from a year ago. Note: the S20 Ultra was retested with Version 4 of the review process, so the scores should be comparable. Let’s look at the…
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Unknown Realme phone leaks through 3D renders

March 2, 2021
While the Realme GT is getting most of the attention, the company is working on other phones as well. One of them was recreated in 3D by who has some details on what appears to be an affordable model. Unfortunately, the name of it is not yet known. That teardrop notch on…
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Kuo: 2022 iPhone Pro model to come with punch-hole selfie camera, iPhone SE 5G coming

March 2, 2021
A new report from long-time Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities cites Apple supply chain sources regarding two changes to Apple’s 2022 lineups of iPhones. Kuo is expecting that that the successor to this year’s iPhone Pro model next year may ditch the notch and use a punch-hole camera cut-out in its display. Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 12 Pro The other item in the…
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