#bryan guinness

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Places I didn't expect British Parliamentary Research to take me: reading about Winston Churchill's son Randolph urinating on his esteemed father.

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Diana Mitford and Bryan Guinness on their honeymoon in Taormina, Italy, 1929.

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Deborah Cavendish the Duchess of Devonshire (1920-2014) and her husband Andrew Cavendish, the Duke of Devonshire and their two children; Peregrine and Emma. The family were photographed by Norman Parkinson for Vogue magazine, in August 1952.

Debo as she was affectionately known, was the youngest of seven siblings. She has five sisters Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and a brother, Tom. Her death in 2014 as the last of the clan, signalled the end of an era which had spanned 110 years of the Mitford girls capturing society.

Her parents, David, 2nd Baron Redesdale and his wife Sydney were for the best part penniless and eccentric aristocrats. School for the girls was frowned upon, in case they should develop thick calves from playing hockey (Tom, who spent time away studying at Eton, was a Barrister and musician, later killed in Burma in 1945). Amongst other things, linen napkins were abandoned because of the cost of laundering them, and the children were forced to follow a kosher diet on the premises that cancer was less prevalent among Jews. The girls were very hands on and practical at home, developing enquiring minds as they were essentially left to their own devices. This made them ever more appealing when they entered society. Of the sisters, Jessica, Nancy and Deborah became writers.

Their combination of beauty, brains and humour catapulted them to celebrities status and they remained continually courted by the press covering stories of affairs, notoriety and extreme politics.

Diana’s affair with fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley caused her to leave her marriage to Britain’s wealthiest man at the time, Irish brewing heir, Bryan Guinness. Unity followed her infatuation with Hitler to Germany and died from an attempted suicide. Jessica’s communist support of the Spanish Civil War led her to flee to Spain at age 18, eventually settling in the US. Nancy became a Dior wearing socialist, who left her marriage and moved to France where she indulged in a doomed affair with Charles de Gaulle's right-hand man, Gaston Palewski. Pamela, married the millionaire scientist Derek Jackson and sought of a quieter life out of the limelight. At the time, 15 year-old Debo, who had a crush on Derek, fainted when she heard the news.

Much like the Queen Mother, Debo was looking forward to a life of relative obscurity by marrying the second son of the Duke of Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish in 1941. Unexpectedly, when the 10th Duke died in 1950, they found themselves the 11th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. Inheriting Chatsworth, Hardwick Hall, Lismore Castle and Bolton Abbey. Death duties meant they donated Hardwick Hall to the nation and precious works of art were sold as Andrew negotiated endlessly, until the debt was finally settled in 1974.

Their lives changed when Billy Hartington, Andrew’s elder brother and heir, was killed during the Second World War by a sniper's bullet in 1944. His death only four months after his marriage to the very popular Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy, JFK's sister. Four years later, Kick died in a plane crash and is buried in the churchyard at Edensor on the family estate.

Debo redecorated Chatsworth which had previously been leased to a girl’s school, opened it up to the public and spent 54 years of her life there. Her initiatives included the Chatsworth Farmyard – set up to provide people of all ages and backgrounds with the opportunity to learn about farming, food production and traditional landscapes; Chatsworth Farm Shop; and the Orangery gift shop. A pioneer of her time, it paved the way for the commercialisation of other farm estate businesses like Daylesford and Highgrove Farm shops.

Debo moved into Derbyshire vicarage on the death of her husband and assuming the title Dowager Duchess of Devonshire.

Writers of period dramas and historical fiction have looked to the world of the Mitfords sisters for inspiration. Julian Fellowes’ Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey is said to be based on Nancy’s wicked humour.

Diana was portrayed by Evelyn Waugh in Vile Bodies, Deborah was painted by Lucian Freud and Jessica had a cardboard coffin named after her. John Betjeman - who at one time was in love with Pamela - celebrated the sisters in a verse, the first lines of which read: "The Mitford girls! The Mitford Girls/ I love them for their sins".

Her last publication before her death was her autobiography, ‘Wait For Me!’. See less See less

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2022 reading list >:)

fiction:

charlotte brontë, jane eyre

n.k. jemisin, the stone sky

victor hugo, les misérables

susanna clarke, piranesi

james baldwin, giovanni's room

tamsyn muir, gideon the ninth

tamsyn muir, harrow the ninth

emily brontë, wuthering heights

ursula k le guin, the left hand of darkness

oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray

isaac fellman, dead collections

joan lindsay, picnic at hanging rock

shirley jackson, dark tales

gretchen felker-martin, manhunt

herman melville, moby dick

octavia butler, parable of the sower

shola von reinhold, lote

larissa lai, the tiger flu

alison rumfitt, tell me i'm worthless

julia armfield, our wives under the sea

shirley jackson, the haunting of hill house

miguel de cervantes, don quixote

toni morrison, the bluest eye

isaac babel, odessa stories

alexandre dumas, the count of monte cristo

daphne du maurier, rebecca

clark ashton smith, the dark eidolon and other fantasies

rivers solomon, the deep

akwaeke emezi, freshwater

e.m. forster, a room with a view

vladimir nabokov, lolita

ayse papatya bucak, the trojan war museum and other stories

sheridan le fanu, carmilla

e.m. forster, maurice

tamsyn muir, nona the ninth

vladimir nabokov, pale fire

shirley jackson, we have always lived in the castle

jorge luis borges, fictions

henry james, the turn of the screw

tamsyn muir, undercover

ling ma, severance

orhan pamuk, the museum of innocence

shirley jackson, hangsaman

nonfiction:

vijay prashad, no free left: the futures of indian communism

eduardo galeano, open veins of latin america

hakim adi, pan-africanism: a history

paulo freire, pedagogy of the oppressed

a rainbow thread: an anthology of queer jewish texts ed. noam sienna

kwame nkrumah, africa must unite

vijay prashad, red star over the third world

norm finkelstein, the holocaust industry

robin wall kimmerer, braiding sweetgrass

vladimir lenin, the state and revolution

saidiya hartman, wayward lives, beautiful experiments

john aberth, from the brink of the apocalypse

erik butler, metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film

amin maalouf, the crusades through arab eyes

anandi ramamurthy, black star: britain's asian youth movements

christopher chitty, sexual hegemony

shakespearean gothic, ed. christy desmet and anne williams

cervantes' don quixote: a casebook, ed. roberto gonzález echevarria

edward said, culture and imperialism

emily hobson, lavender and red: liberation and solidarity in the gay and lesbian left

audre lorde, zami: a new spelling of my name

ghassan kanafani, on zionist literature

afsaneh najmabadi, women with moustaches and men without beards: gender and sexual anxieties of iranian modernity

jamie berrout, essays against publishing

beverley bryan, stella dadzie, suzanne scafe, heart of the race: black women's lives in britain

jamaica kincaid, a small place

friedrich engels, socialism: utopian and scientific

poetry:

trish salah, lyric sexology

melissa range, scriptorium

wendy trevino, cruel fiction

june jordan, selected poems

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my top artists as aesthetics

taylor swift: the soft strum of an acoustic guitar, knitted cardigans, red lipstick, charm bracelets, love letters, freshly baked sugar cookies, drawing hearts in the margins of your notebook, a purring cat, scented candles zach bryan: scuffed cowboy boots and lived-in jeans, the faint smell of smoke, golden fields at sunset, dim lights at the dive bar, accidentally falling asleep on the couch, fogged-up car windows, wild horses, whiskey noah kahan: the simultaneous ache and relief of leaving your hometown after the holidays, the gradual changing of the leaves, slightly burnt coffee, a dog at your heels, a favourite corduroy jacket thats been worn to shreds, your breath turning to mist on a chilly september morning, mismatched socks snow patrol: the first snow of winter, dark chocolate with salted caramel, worn-down cobbled streets, wrapping yourself in the most eclectic-looking scarf you own, navy blue converse, the dim light of dusk, guinness from the local pub, a second-hand leather jacket that smells faintly of cigarettes mumford and sons: stars over the badlands, long stretches of dirt road, apple cider, the soft glow of marquee lights, hardwood floors, the scratch of a vintage record player, woodfire smoke, itchy plaid blankets, chelsea boots, a slightly dusty banjo

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Bryan Guinness and Diana Mitford with their Irish Wolfhound.

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2023 Favoritest Book Reads

Vineland - Pynchon, Thomas

Prophet - Blaché, Sin & Helen Macdonald

And the Ass Saw the Angel - Cave, Nick

Lou Reed: The King of New York - Hermes, Will 

The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) - Pratchett, Terry

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative - Kleon, Austin 

Sonic Life: A Memoir - Moore, Thurston

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) - Jemisin, N.K. 

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Roach, Mary

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too - Sun, Jonny

The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Home (Binti, #2) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Binti: Sacred Fire (Binti, #1.5) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Binti (Binti, #1) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Black Paradox - Ito, Junji

David Bowie's Low (33 1/3) - Wilcken, Hugo

Faith, Hope and Carnage - Cave, Nick

The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Aslan, Reza

Smashed - Ito, Junji

Time Shelter - Gospodinov, Georgi

Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3) - Dayal, Geeta

Armageddon in Retrospect - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Neverwhere (London Below, #1) - Gaiman, Neil 

The Committed (The Sympathizer #2) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh 

Into the Great Wide Open - Canty, Kevin 

Mongrels - Jones, Stephen Graham 

DisneyWar - Stewart, James B.

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Roach, Mary

The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin, Ursula K.

My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (33 1/3) - McGonigal, Mike 

Suttree - McCarthy, Cormac

Life's Work: A Memoir - Milch, David

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Schwab, V.E.

Against the Day - Pynchon, Thomas

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood - Ryan, Maureen 

Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (33 1/3) - Himes, Geoffrey

La Moustache - Carrère, Emmanuel

Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid (33 1/3) - Favreau, Alyssa 

Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea - Pinsker, Sarah 

The Man Without a Shadow - Oates, Joyce Carol

The City & the City - Miéville, China 

Mem - Morrow, Bethany C. 

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Harari, Yuval Noah

Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs (33 1/3) - Eidelstein, Eric

Gutshot - Gray, Amelia 

The Price of Time (Watch What You Wish For #1) - Tigner, Tim 

The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever - Sepinwall, Alan 

Just Kids - Smith, Patti 

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir - Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto 

Flicker - Roszak, Theodore

Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers - Miller, James Andrew 

Flashback - Simmons, Dan

Flaming Lips' Zaireeka (33 1/3) - Richardson, Mark 

The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer #1) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh 

Pavement's Wowee Zowee (33 1/3) - Charles, Bryan

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) - Gibson, William

Invisible Cities - Calvino, Italo

Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) - Jones, Stephen Graham 

The Wes Anderson Collection - Seitz, Matt Zoller

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Dick, Philip K.

Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (33 1/3) - Maner, Sequoia

The Nineties - Klosterman, Chuck

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Zevin, Gabrielle 

Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age - Mitenbuler, Reid

A Heart That Works - Delaney, Rob 

Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) - Butler, Octavia E.

Cryptonomicon (Crypto, #1) - Stephenson, Neal 

Blacktop Wasteland - Cosby, S.A. 

Pearl Jam's Vs. (33 1/3) - Brownlee, Clint

Tracy Flick Can't Win - Perrotta, Tom

Devil House - Darnielle, John 

Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2) - Butler, Octavia E.

Heat 2 - Mann, Michael & Meg Gardiner

Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures (33 1/3) - Ott, Chris

Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) - Butler, Octavia E.

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Stephenson, Neal 

The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3) - Lynch, Scott 

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) - Atwood, Margaret 

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Madame Yevonde (Yevonde Cumbers Middleton)

The Honorable Mrs Bryan Guinness (Diana Mitford) as Venus

ca. 1935

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I have been tagged to answer book questions by @boxboxlewis!!!! it’s an honor to be nominated! ty ty ty!!

An estimate of how many physical books I own: about 450, mostly collected 2005-2015

Favorite author: terrifying question. Historically I progressed through Madeleine L’Engle, Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula Le Guin, Geoff Dyer…lately though when I really love a book I almost hide from the rest of the author’s work, in case it’s not as good or heaven forfend BETTER. My current instant preorder list is Bryan Washington, Brandon Taylor, and Isaac Fellman! The last authors to knock my socks off were Olga Tokarczuk and Sayaka Murata! Perhaps I will never love cleanly again!

A popular book I've never read and never intend to read: Game of Thrones.

A popular book I thought was just meh:

Fourth Wing, Black Cake.

Longest book I own: Bulfinch's Mythology 

Longest series I own all the books to: apparently Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series

Prettiest book I own: 1940s copy of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s collected sonnets

A book or series I wish more people knew about: Leonora Carrington's Hearing Trumpet and its cranky batshit joyous old ladies

Book I'm reading now: The Chinese Groove, Kathryn Ma (our protagonist is so loveable and disastrous and funny, I am so anxious for him)

Book that's been on my TBR list for a while but I still haven't got around to it: My library hold on A Sense of Wonder comes up every month or so and I keep throwing it back, to get bigger or be less about basketball or something

Do you have any books in a language other than English: poetry anthologies in Spanish and French left over from college language classes. Also the xeroxed course packets, that's where the spicy stuff is

Paperback, hardcover, or ebook?: I read 95% ebooks borrowed from the library, on my phone, I love it, it suits my degraded lifestyle. The perfect format is a slightly floppy trade paperback printed on recycled paper. Hardcovers hurt my face when I drop them.

I want to tag people but I am nervous of tumblr etiquette so: if you are reading this I have tagged you with the laserbeam of my heart. Please tell me about your books.

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Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, FRSL (27 October 1905 – 6 July 1992) the #sighthound #bulletin

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John Howard Davies and Robert Newton in Oliver Twist (David Lean, 1948)

Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, Mary Clare, Anthony Newley. Screenplay: David Lean, Stanley Haynes, based on a novel by Charles Dickens. Cinematography: Guy Greene. Art direction: John Bryan. Film editing: Jack Harris. Music: Arnold Bax.

After George Cukor's 1935 David Copperfield, this is my favorite adaptation of Dickens for film or TV. What Lean does right is to treat the Dickens book as a fable, not a novel. A novel takes its characters seriously as human beings; a fable sees them as embodiments of good and evil. And there's plenty of evil on display in Oliver Twist, from the brute evil of Bill Sikes (Robert Newton) to the venal evil of Fagin (Alec Guinness) to the stupid evil of Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan) and Mrs. Corney (Mary Clare). Oliver (John Howard Davies) is innocently good, whereas Mr. Brownlow (Henry Stephenson) is a man of good will. Nancy (Kay Walsh) and, to a lesser extent, the Artful Dodger (Anthony Newley) are potentially good people who have been corrupted by evil. The performers are all beautifully cast, especially Davies as Oliver: He's just real-looking enough in the role that he doesn't become saccharine, the way some prettier Olivers do. This is Lean in what I think of as his great period, when he was making beautifully filmed movies with just the right measure of sentiment: Brief Encounter (1945) and Great Expectations (1946) in addition to this one. But he would be bit by the epic bug while working on The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and its success would betray him into bigger but not necessarily better movies: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and the rest of his later oeuvre would have the same attention to visual detail that make his early movies so rich, but they seem to me chilly in comparison. Here he benefits not only from a perfect cast, but also from Guy Green's photography of John Bryan's set designs. There are probably few more terrifying scenes in movies than Sikes's murder of Nancy, which sends Sikes's dog (one of the most impressive performances by an animal in movies) into a frenzy. Running it a close second is Sikes's death, seen from a vertiginous rooftop angle. We don't actually see the death, but only the swift tautening of the rope as he plunges, punctuated by a sudden snap. The film is not as well known in America as in Great Britain: Guinness's portrayal of Fagin elicited charges of anti-Semitism, especially since the film appeared so soon after the world learned about the Holocaust. Guinness doesn't play to Jewish stereotypes, but Fagin's absurdly exaggerated nose (which makeup artist Stuart Freeborn copied from George Cruikshank's illustrations for the novel) does evoke some of the caricatures in the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer. The film was edited to remove some of the shots of Fagin in profile, and was held from release in the United States until 1951. 

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March 2023 Media Breakdown

Movies:

Honor Among Lovers (1931) - Dorothy Arzner

One Week (1920) - Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

The Goat (1921) - Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair

Hard Luck (1921) - Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

The Stunt Woman (1996) - Ann Hui

Clue (1985) - Jonathan Lynn

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) - Amy Holden Jones

The Velvet Vampire (1971) - Stephanie Rothman

Inside Women Inside (1978) - Christine Choy & Cynthia Maurizio

Clotheslines (1982) - Roberta Cantow

La cigarette (1919) - Germaine Dulac

Falling Leaves (1921) - Alice Guy-Blanché

My Scientology Movie (2015) - John Dower

Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Jonathan Demme

The Aristocats (1970) - Wolfgang Reitherman

The Matrix (1999) - Lilly Wachowski & Lana Wachowski

Suspense (1913) - Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley

Cocaine Bear (2023) - Elizabeth Banks

Fruit of Paradise (1970) - Věra Chytilová

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018) - Arwen Curry

I’m Not There (2007) - Todd Haynes

65 (2023) - Scott Beck & Bryan Woods

TV Shows:

The Last of Us - Season 1 (2023)

Books: Completed

Bitterblue (2012) - Kristin Cashore

Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States (2018) - Bradley W. Hart

Blindsight (2006) - Peter Watts

Coraline (2002) - Neil Gaiman

Love on the Brain (2022) - Ali Hazelwood

Crime and Punishment (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Far Wilder Magic (2022) - Allison Saft

Whose Names Are Unknown (2004, but was originally written in the 1930s. Steinbeck used her notes for WNAU to write The Grapes of Wrath, which is ultimately why this book wasn’t published until the 21st century.) - Sanora Babb

Books: In Progress

River Woman, River Demon (2022) - Jennifer Givhan | DNF

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society (2023) - Eleanor Janega | 41%

Trick Mirror (2019) - Jai Tolentino | 63%

This is How You Lose the Time War (2019) - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone | 30%

Top 3 Albums:

Melodrama - Lorde (2017) | pop/art pop

five seconds flat - Lizzie McAlpine (2022) | indie pop

Landmark - Hippo Campus (2017) | indie rock

Honorable Mention Album: So Much (For) Stardust (2023) - Fall Out Boy | pop rock/pop-punk

Crafts:

Worked on my scrap yarn blanket

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artist research; bryan berg

bryan berg is an american architect and professional cardstacker who builds large-scale houses out of cards. his work has really inspired me to use a 2d flat surface like a card to create something 3d. although im not card stacking my top hat together and im using glue, the techniques and engineering of berg's designs has helped me visualize and understand how to make mine.

his structures are so sturdy, they can hold a cement brick or withstand the force of a leaf blower, but he never uses glue, only thousands of playing cards.  

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Ally Row presents: Remember when

Melancholic and deep song

Press:

Australian based folk rock/alt country duo Ally Row have just released their latest memory soaked single ‘Remember when’. This is their most honest song to date, deviating from their upbeat catalogue to step for a moment into the realm of indie folk. This single will take you on a walk down memory lane, filled with birdsong and introspection.

‘Remember when’ was written to the sound of magpies and kookaburras, on a cold and dark winters day in Yarram, Gippsland. The song flowed out in the aftermath of a terrible financial mistake, all the sorrow, betrayal and guilt channelled into a deep pining for a past, when things were simpler.

The emotive vocals, cinematic string score and world-weary lyricism are reminiscent of duets like Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves ‘I remember everything’ and Taylor Swift and Bon Iver’s ‘exile’.

This track features soft plucking of electric banjo, dreamy siren harmonies and sombre violin that will transport you straight to the Irish coastline, nursing your pint of Guinness as you stare out into the rain. 

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Recorded/mixed/produced by Spud Thompson at Elusive Creative Studios, mastered by Nick Franklin and featuring the incredible talent of Robyn Blann’s violin ‘Remember when’ is out now on all streaming platforms.

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Honor’un katlanabilir telefonu, dünya rekoru kırdı!

Honor’un temmuz ayında ana vatanı Çin’de piyasaya sürdüğü Honor Magic V3, teknik özellikleri ve fiyatı ile dikkat çekmeyi başardı. Önümüzdeki ay gerçekleşecek ve teknoloji dünyasının merakla beklediği IFA Berlin 2024 fuarında küresel olarak lansmanı yapılacak Honor Magic V3, önemli bir rekorla adından söz ettirdi. Honor Magic V3, dünya rekoru kırdı Honor, Guinness Dünya Rekoru sahibi Bryan Berg…

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Honor’un katlanabilir telefonu, dünya rekoru kırdı!

Honor’un temmuz ayında ana vatanı Çin’de piyasaya sürdüğü Honor Magic V3, teknik özellikleri ve fiyatı ile dikkat çekmeyi başardı. Önümüzdeki ay gerçekleşecek ve teknoloji dünyasının merakla beklediği IFA Berlin 2024 fuarında küresel olarak lansmanı yapılacak Honor Magic V3, önemli bir rekorla adından söz ettirdi. Honor Magic V3, dünya rekoru kırdı Honor, Guinness Dünya Rekoru sahibi Bryan Berg…