14 DAY TRIAL // According to a leaked image on Chinese website ithome.com, Nokia might be working on a new smartphone featuring five different cameras on the back with Zeiss-certified lenses.
Although the current trend is to have at most two rear-facing cameras, with Huawei's P20 Pro being the only one featuring three of them, Nokia might soon start a new trend if they will release the device with the TA-1094 model number.
Moreover, it's not the first time the five camera smartphone entered the news as it was also reported in December 2017 that Nokia would manufacture a small trial batch, with this phone being one of them.
The leaked photo shows that the cameras are placed around a center lens, with a single flash on the side and a small sensor at the top of the pentagonal camera array.
Given that in most phones with multiple cameras, each one of them comes with a different purpose, it is also safe to assume that Nokia could also use each of the five cameras on the leaked device for different roles: low-light photography, black and white snaps, wide-angle shots, or telephoto.
The trypophobia inducing smartphone could be the one to best Huawei's P20 Pro three rear camera array
Furthermore, Nokia could also combine all of them to allow the smartphone's user to adjust the depth of field or the focus of the photos after they've been saved on the phone's internal storage, similar to the way Lytro works with traditional cameras.
There are facts that make this five-camera phone a believable thing, seeing that HMD Global (the company which owns the Nokia brand of phones) re-acquired the PureView trademark from Microsoft just last month and the device from the leak might become the first from a new series of PureView-branded models.
Also, a few years ago Nokia is known to have invested in a somewhat unknown multi-lens camera startup named Pelican Imaging, notorious for creating array cameras for smartphones.
If this rumor does come to fruition and Nokia will release the device on the market as one of the smartphones in their new lineup, buyers with trypophobia beware given the cluster shape the lenses are set on the back of the phone.