The five-camera Nokia phone that has leaked has a few too many lenses

As The edge noted, this five-lens configuration has also been spotted in previous design sketches and even a Zeiss patent – which recently reunited with the Nokia brand. This adds a little weight to this incredibly weird flight. I thought Huawei's three-lens phone was excessive, but the results speak for themselves.

Nokia is not the only one to think of a multitude of lenses in future smartphones: Light, which has already launched a camera to 16 lenses the size of a point-and-shoot very large, is currently working on smartphones .

The question is whether HMD, having also chosen Microsoft's PureView branding, can create something wrong. The company's attempts to ensure that both images (simultaneous front and back images and videos) occur quickly. The old Nokia pushed the boundaries of phone photography – though the results were mixed – with large imaging sensors and huge camera humps. Features such as optical zoom and stabilization are a mainstay for many of its high-end devices when Windows Phone was one thing.

In 2018, HMD seeks to repeat magic – with more commercial success, hopefully.