If you’ve been around long enough to remember the Lumia 920, the Lumia 1020, or even the gloriously weird Lumia 1520 phablet, you know one truth about Nokia: the company never feared bold design. While the rest of the industry polished aluminum slabs, Nokia was out there painting the town cyan, magenta and banana yellow.
And now? This supposed Nokia X200 Ultra feels like someone took the old Lumia design philosophy, microwaved it with 2025 YouTube tech-hype energy, sprinkled in some sci-fi, and dropped the result straight out of a merch store located on Mars. The most striking thing about the X200 Ultra is that ridiculous electric-blue mirror finish. It’s not subtle, it’s not shy, and it definitely isn’t following the “matte muted beige stone sandstone forest mist” trend that modern OEMs worship.
This is pure Nokia nostalgia—big personality, unapologetic color, and an object you notice across a room. Lumia fans will instantly feel that familiar spark, like when the 1020’s lemon-yellow polycarbonate was the smartphone equivalent of a high-visibility vest at a fashion show.
Let’s talk about the elephant—or rather, the cluster of circular camera eyes—on the back.
Nokia was one of the first brands to experiment with giant, dominant camera bumps (Lumia 1020, Lumia 950 XL). This device takes that philosophy and dials it to eleven:
- Four large camera lenses arranged vertically
- Plus two smaller sensors
- and a tiny display next to them, like a gadget straight from Cyberpunk 2077
It’s chaotic, but in a strangely nostalgic Nokia way: equal parts “engineering flex” and “design rebellion.” If you squint, you can almost see the spirit of PureView living inside that 200MP monster sensor.
The tiny rear display is an unusual design choice. It looks like a smartwatch stapled to the phone, showing app icons as if it’s trying to be helpful. Is it practical? Not really. If Nokia ever made a real phone like this, they’d market it as “the phone you charge once a week,” which honestly would fit the brand perfectly.
The edges are clean and flat, the silhouette is simple, and the overall aesthetic stays close to the minimalist Scandinavian roots that defined Nokia’s best-designed phones. But everything else—the ultra-gloss finish, the multi-lens camera monstrosity, the tiny rear screen, the battery spec—is pure 2025 fantasy.
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