HMD Global is reportedly planning to launch a smartphone underneath its personal model identify for the primary time and a purported render of the handset has now surfaced on-line. Till now, the Finnish agency has been releasing smartphones underneath the Nokia model, however the design of the handset with a brand new HMD brand on the rear panel suggests this might quickly change. We now have a good thought of what the handset might appear to be when it makes its debut.

91Mobiles has published an image of HMD’s purported N159V smartphone, sourced from unnamed trade sources. The handset is proven in a black colourway with a twin rear digicam module with an LED flash. The HMD brand is seen within the centre of the cellphone’s rear panel and there is no different branding seen wherever on the handset.

Whereas we nonetheless do not know what HMD plans to name its first handset with the mannequin quantity N159V, the leaked picture instructed that it’ll arrive as a midrange cellphone. The cellphone appears to be like like will probably be geared up with a plastic rear panel and the facility and quantity buttons seem like positioned on the fitting aspect of the handset.

The purported render of the primary smartphone from HMD
Photograph Credit score: 91Mobiles

HMD’s first smartphone is proven to sport a flat show within the leaked renders. The render of the smartphone additionally means that will probably be geared up with a entrance going through digicam for selfies and video chats that’s positioned in a centre-aligned gap punch cutout on the prime of the display screen. The render doesn’t reveal whether or not the cellphone will probably be geared up with a 3.5mm audio jack on the prime or the underside of the cellphone.

This is not the primary time we have heard of the corporate’s plans to launch HMD-branded gadgets. Final September, HMD International CEO Jean-Francois Baril announced that the Finnish agency would quickly broaden its product portfolio with telephones launched underneath the HMD model. The corporate has been advertising and marketing Nokia-branded telephones globally since 2016.

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