LumiPhone / Reddit, OceanDepth95028
Surely, someone once wondered how a Windows Phone phone with Apple iOS installed would work. The iPhone SE 3 in the Nokia Lumia 1020 body allows you to feel it.
The fact that iOS is running on a supposedly different device is quite strange. У Reddit an enthusiast has published a project: an iPhone SE 3 modified to fit inside a Nokia Lumia 1020 case. At one time, someone probably liked the phone and it had a unique design, but the days of Windows Phone support are long gone.
«Inside the LumiPhone is a 3rd generation iPhone SE. Yes, it’s 5G, and 5G works too (maybe it’s the world’s first 5G Lumia?). This also means that we have retained almost all the internal components of the original iPhone SE 3, including the still quite powerful A15 Bionic chip and 128 GB of storage. Everything is original», — notes OceanDepth95028 in a detailed description.
The third iPhone SE lost its «native» glass and was glued to the glass of the Lumia 1020. The LCD screen of the iPhone SE 3 is slightly larger than that of the Lumia, so the authors had to get rid of the three buttons that are on Windows Phone. The front camera of the iPhone was also placed on the front glass of the Lumia in the same place as the original. The author regrets not being able to use the 41 MP main camera of the Lumia 1020 — it was replaced by the 12 MP camera of the iPhone SE 3. «The phenomenal xenon flash on the left is now just for decoration» — there is an iPhone flash instead.
At the top is the SIM card slot — where the original Lumia slot was. At the bottom, instead of Micro USB, there is a Lightning port, which fits in very well. The power button and volume rocker remain in place.
«Home — camera button. A few months ago, Apple reintroduced it on the new iPhone 16 series, but the camera button on the LumiPhone is less complicated. It is connected to the volume rocker. So yes, you can use the shutter button to take a photo, but you can also press it to use it as an additional volume down button. I don’t know why, but it works that way».
A device that is essentially a the latest iPhone SE, works fully under iOS 18.3.1. Wireless charging and Apple Pay are not available. Also, the headphone jack could not be recreated. In general, the modification managed to preserve the feeling of using Nokia Lumia 1020 and actually to give the design of the Windows Phone device a new life.