HMD Global has already capitalized on the nostalgia for “mobiles” by marketing in 2017 a modernized version of the legendary Nokia 3310, then in 2018 a Nokia 8110 4G inspired by the mobile made famous by the film Matrix. The firm is reportedly preparing, according to recent rumors, to resurrect the equally famous Nokia 3210, 25 years after the release of the original model. But the ambitions of the Finnish firm, which owns the Nokia brand outside of smartphones in its own name, do not stop there. This is not a feature phoneas we now call these mobiles without Internet access, which HMD intends to revive, but a smartphone dating from 2012.
Now forgotten, the Windows Phone operating system, itself inherited from Windows Mobile, was a credible alternative to iOS and Android in the early 2010s, albeit hampered by a flagrant lack of applications developed for it. It was towards it that Nokia, which had taken the smartphone turn late and struggled with its own system (Symbian), turned to get back on track. The Finnish company thus offered a complete range stamped Lumia, some iterations of which have made history, such as the 1020 model sporting, as early as 2013, a 41-megapixel main photo sensor. And it would seem that HMD is bringing back into fashion the Lumia 920, launched, therefore, in 2012.
The elements pointing to the rebirth of this smartphone are now numerous. First of all, there were information leaks in the Finnish press, where a device called Skyline appeared at the beginning of June, which a few weeks later was included in the lists of the technical benchmarks site Geekbench. THE leaker smashx_60 (on X) adds his stone to the edifice, revealing what looks very much like the advertising images that HMD is preparing to release, during a presentation that is supposedly planned for the beginning of July.
The Nokia Lumia 920 is reportedly set to be reborn. ©Nokia
A Lumia without Nokia
What to expect from this new generation Lumia, which also seems to lose the Nokia stamp in favor of the sole HMD brand, and would shift the range into the Android universe? If we believe the rumors surrounding it, this HMD Skyline would be equipped with a 6.67-inch Full HD+ Oled screen (120 Hz), but also a 4900 mAh battery compatible with 33 W charging, and a triple photo module whose main sensor would display 108 megapixels. The images of the product available to date reveal a design very largely inspired by the Lumia 920, from its emblematic pop colors to its shell with very rounded edges, while Geekbench confirms that it has a Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 chip and 8 GB of RAM. Suffice to say that the smartphone would display a technical sheet capable of competing with Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G, and would aim to offer an advantageous quality/price ratio.
Finally, let us point out that a second smartphone, in the same design vein, but with a less ambitious technical sheet (and in particular a 50 Mpx main photo sensor), would be on the menu. If we can reasonably doubt that there are enough people nostalgic for the Lumia era to allow the Skyline to stand out, it remains to be seen whether its intrinsic qualities will be able to convince on their own… and get HMD off the ground, whose market share does not allow it to appear in the top 5 of mobile sellers.