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TL;DR
- HMD is seemingly engaged on a telephone with a Lumia 1020-inspired design, in line with a leak.
- We aren’t anticipating this gadget to be as modern because the previous Nokia telephone, although.
HMD is now providing smartphones below its personal branding, and the corporate is clearly taking cues from Nokia for the design of a few of these telephones. Now, it appears to be like like the corporate may very well be engaged on a tool impressed by the Lumia 1020.
HMD Information posted a drawing (seen beneath) exhibiting an upcoming HMD smartphone that appears impressed by the Nokia Lumia 1020. The picture exhibits a telephone with squared-off corners and a round digital camera housing, broadly in keeping with the previous gadget. There’s no technique to decide the scale of the digital camera bump at this stage, however there are 4 sensor cutouts right here.
We’ve additionally acquired what seems to be metallic contacts on the underside of the rear cowl. The Lumia 1020 had related contacts on its rear cowl, though these had been used to facilitate wi-fi charging through a supported case. It’s unclear if that is merely beauty on the HMD gadget or if it serves an identical goal.
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However, we don’t count on this telephone to be a game-changing launch in the identical approach that the Lumia 1020 redefined digital camera telephones. Nokia’s launch was a milestone for the business owing to an enormous 41MP digital camera sensor (echoing the sooner Nokia 808 PureView), optical picture stabilization at a time when this was nonetheless a rarity, lossless cropping for zoom, oversampling tech akin to pixel-binning, and distortion-free microphones. The telephone additionally supplied different methods like computational pictures methods, simultaneous oversampled/full-resolution seize, and hitherto-unseen professional digital camera controls.
We’re not anticipating an identical variety of digital camera improvements (if any) from HMD’s new handset. The lately launched HMD Skyline is the model’s most succesful smartphone in years, however it’s nonetheless a mid-range affair that lags behind the very best Android telephones in the case of digital camera {hardware}, efficiency, and different areas. Nonetheless, we hope the upcoming telephone gives a repairable focus too, in keeping with the Skyline and different HMD gadgets.
