A Nokia flagship comeback makes an appealing premise for a concept phone, and designer AndroidLeo’s Nokia N90 Ultra puts that nostalgia into a familiar modern shape. This is a fan creation, with no connection to an announced Nokia product. It borrows the name of the memorable N90 from 2005, but leaves its swivelling camera mechanism behind. Instead, the renders show a slim slab with flat edges, three prominent camera rings and a small rear display. That last detail gives the design its strongest reason to exist beyond the Nokia badge.
The cobalt blue version makes the biggest impression, with a saturated finish that carries across the back and frame. The silver and graphite treatments feel more restrained, letting the black lenses and display provide the contrast. Three cameras form a triangular arrangement beside the rectangular screen, concentrating the visual weight at the top of an otherwise clean rear panel. Metallic outlines connect the camera rings and display aesthetically, although their separate raised edges could make the area awkward to clean. The large Nokia logo also feels slightly oversized: reducing it would give the back more breathing room and let the hardware arrangement speak for itself.
The rear screen is where the concept becomes useful. The renders show a simple clock and date, while the proposed interface extends to notifications and quick status information. Leave the phone face down on a desk and those details remain visible without turning it over or opening the main display. It could also serve as a framing aid for selfies taken with the rear cameras, although that would require an interface the supplied images do not demonstrate. Its placement beside the lenses makes sense, but brings practical questions about accidental touches, notification privacy and how a protective case would accommodate another exposed screen.
The imagined specifications are less convincing than the visual idea. Claims involving a 200 MP camera, 8K recording and 200x zoom offer little insight without details about sensors, optics or whether that zoom is digital. Listing two Snapdragon chipsets further suggests a wish list rather than a finished hardware proposal. The design would be more persuasive with fewer headline numbers and more attention to camera protrusion, grip and screen protection. Even so, AndroidLeo has found a worthwhile direction: a Nokia-inspired phone whose rear panel does something useful, with a bold blue finish that gives it an identity of its own.
via Yanko Design
Hello ! “Smart Phones users” “Nokia” ‘s house hold name, in many homes, known for “Ruggedbility, durability, per paper this model ‘s fallen in mist of “Midrange phones, hope it should perform per paper written
This is a bit sacrilegious to the N90 name, as the original N90 was a transforming form factor, and the camera was it’s main focus, especially for video, and it was tops at the time. Perhaps I’m biased, as it’s also the device that inspired me to become an influencer in the mobile space.