There’s a reason the classics are still on the radio – and it’s the same reason HMD adopted the Lumia design language in its last batch of phones, starting with the Skyline. You could argue that the best Lumia of them all was the Lumia 1020, thanks to its impressive 41-megapixel sensor housed in a circular camera island on the back.
HMD appears to be using this exact design for an unnamed upcoming model. The central circular island houses four lenses (and an LED flash), as you can see in the leak below:
Similar to HMD’s Lumia 1020
This isn’t the HMD Hyper, which has a rectangular island in the top left corner like the Skyline. And it’s not another similar-looking HMD phone that was also recently leaked. The Hyper appears to be a lower-midrange device, while this one will likely be in the higher end.
Not that we have any specs to go on, beyond the number of cameras—the Skyline was HMD’s most ambitious camera phone yet, and the first to have a triple camera (not counting phones with macro modules). This 1020 lookalike should be HMD’s first quad-camera phone.
The Skyline’s 108+50+13MP setup certainly has solid hardware, but there are some aspects of the whole thing that are lacking. But even this camera can’t match the flagship Lumias. While the Lumias lost their resolution crown years ago, the high-quality image processing that defined the Lumias (and the PureView before them) has been honed over years of effort, so HMD has a long way to go if it wants to challenge the current camera kings.
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