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β€œNokiApple LumiPhone 1020 SE” merges Windows Phone body with budget iPhone guts

17 February 2025 at 12:00

Remember the Lumia 1020? It's backβ€”in iPhone SE form.

The Lumia 1020 was a lot of smartphone in July 2013. It debuted with a focus "almost entirely on the phone's massive camera," Ars wrote at the time. That big 41-megapixel sensor jutted forth from the phone body, and Nokia reps showed off its low-light, rapid-motion camera abilities by shooting pictures of breakdancers in a dark demonstration room. The company also offered an optional camera gripβ€”one that made it feel a lot more like a point-and-shoot camera. In a more robust review, Ars suggested the Lumia 1020 might actually make the point-and-shoot obsolete.

Front of the Lumia 1020, showing a bit of Windows Phone square grid flair. Credit: Casey Johnston
Back of the Lumia 1020, with oh-so-much yellow. Credit: Casey Johnston
The accessory camera grip for the Lumia 1020, shown at its press reveal. Credit: Casey Johnston

The Lumia 1020 contained yet another cutting edge concept of the day: Windows Phone, Microsoft's color-coded, square-shaped companion to its mobile-forward Windows 8. The mobile OS never got over the users/apps, chicken/egg conundrum, and called it quits in October 2017. The end of that distant-third-place mobile OS would normally signal the end of the Lumia 1020 as a usable phone.

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