There’s a reason why the classics still play on the radio – and it’s the same reason that HMD has embraced the Lumia design language for its recent batch of phones, starting with the Skyline. Arguably the best Lumia of them all was the Lumia 1020, all thanks to the impressive 41MP sensor housed on a circular camera island on the back.
HMD seems to be tapping into just that design for an unnamed upcoming model. The centered circular island is home to four lenses (and the LED flash), as seen in the leaked silhouette below:
HMD’s Lumia 1020 lookalike
This isn’t the HMD Hyper, which has a rectangular island in the upper left corner, just like the Skyline. And it isn’t the other similar-looking HMD phone that also leaked recently. The Hyper appears to be a lower mid-range device, anyway, while this will likely be in the upper echelons.
Not that we have any specs to work with, apart from the camera count – the Skyline was HMD’s most ambitious phone in terms of camera yet and its first to have a triple camera (not counting phones with macro modules). This 1020 lookalike should be HMD’s first phone with a quad camera.
The 108+50+13MP setup of the Skyline certainly has solid hardware, but the overall package is lacking in certain aspects. However, even this camera isn’t on the level of flagship Lumias. While the Lumias lost the resolution crown years ago, the high-quality image processing that defined the Lumias (and the PureView before them) was learned over years of effort, so HMD has a long road ahead of it if it wants to challenge the current camera kings.
