How many camera lenses on a smartphone are too many?

We might get closer to the answer soon. A freshly leaked image, first published by Chinese outlet ITHome on Thursday, shows a Nokia-branded phone with five rear camera lenses.。

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You'd be forgiven if you were skeptical of the image's authenticity: The re-launched Nokia phone brand, owned by HMD Global since 2016, has so far been launching affordable Android phones, feature phones and reboots of old popular models.。

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But there are additional reasons to believe that Nokia is actually building this phone. As The Verge noted, design sketches showing a very similar camera layout leaked in January, and Zeiss, who is Nokia's partner for smartphone cameras, has a patent that looks similar and describes a miniature zoom camera.。

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is working on a penta-lens smartphone camera system is hardly surprising. Huawei's P20 Pro already has three rear cameras, and rumors say LG's next flagship will have a total of five cameras: Three on the back and two in the front. Furthermore, Light's L16 compact camera uses an array of 16 camera lenses to produce photos with up to 52 megapixels of resolution.。

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HMD Global said from the beginning they're very serious about rebuilding the Nokia brand. A penta-lens smartphone camera would likely make a cool flagship, and we're very interested to learn whether this phone is for real. 。

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