The year 2017 for Nokia was very productive, the brand is full of new devices with Android, being sold at affordable prices in various parts of the world. And by 2018 the expectation is no different, the company has already unveiled the new Nokia 6 and should announce soon the flagships Nokia 8 and Nokia 9, and in addition a new handset may be being developed in the company’s laboratories in Finland.
What indicates this, are rumors circulating in the Chinese social network, Baidu, according to rumors, the company would be planning the launch of a smartphone with five cameras. To achieve this, HMD Global, the current owner of the brand, will use the technology applied to the OZO virtual reality camera, which was announced in 2015 and retired last year.
According to information published in the Chinese social network, the five-camera smartphone could bring the same organized in the same way as the camera of the Lumia 1020, arranged in a large circle on the back of the handset. The Lumia 1020 was the highlight of Nokia when it comes to cell phone, at the time of the partnership with Microsoft.
Everything indicates that the new device is in the test phase with prototypes, something that reinforces a possible idea of an announcement and maybe even a launch in 2018. There are no more details about the smartphone, making impossible to foresee any configurations, next month we have MWC 2018, and we can expect some surprises for the event, who knows until the announcement of the new gadget from Sony.