Someone Made an iPhone That Feels Like a Nokia

Ashutosh Singh Feb 19, 2025

The good old Nokia days have gone, and no matter how many try to revive it, we should all accept that it’s not coming back.

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Custom engineers never disappoint us with their innovative and fun experiments.

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We’ve seen many odd experiments, and the latest one involves squeezing the iPhone SE 3 within the Nokia Lumia 1020.

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You read it correctly! The internal hardware is from the iPhone SE, while the external hardware, including the display is from the Lumia 1020.

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The fusion phone runs on iOS 18.3.1 and will receive further updates. It works almost flawlessly.

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The charging port is Lightning, but it appears like Micro USB. The camera is also from the iPhone SE 3, which is 12MP.

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The Touch ID is located on the rear of the Lumia’s camera frame. The force touch also works, as confirmed by the modder.

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On the top, there’s a push-style SIM tray. On the right side, there’s a dedicated camera button, along with Volume and Power buttons.

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Notably, Apple Pay and wireless charging are not working. The engineer refers to it as the NokiApple LumiPhone 1020 SE.

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