Meet the LumiPhone: A Nokia Lumia 1020 with the guts of an iPhone SE (3rd gen)

The Nokia Lumia 1020 was released nearly twelve years ago while the iPhone SE (3rd generation) was released in 2022. Both smartphones are in no way similar, but one Redditor has managed to combine the two into one device.

Posted on the r/hackintosh subreddit, the poster (OceanDepth92058) managed to transplant the internals of the iPhone SE (3rd generation) 5G into the shell of the Nokia Lumia 1020. According to the post, only the chassis is from the Lumia 1020 with the rest of the components being that of the iPhone SE 3. The result is a phone that has been dubbed the LumiPhone.

It wasn't an easy process as several modifications had to be made to get the LumiPhone working. For example, the Lumia 1020 has capacitive buttons while the iPhone SE (3rd gen) has a larger display with Touch ID below it. To solve this, the capacitive buttons of the Lumia 1020 had to be removed to fit the larger display of the iPhone SE (3rd gen) while the Touch ID sensor was moved to the back, right beneath the camera. Despite its new position, it still works as a home button with Force Touch functioning, too.

For the rear camera, the Lumia 1020's 41MP sensor had to be replaced with the iPhone SE (3rd gen)'s 12MP sensor. And while it appears as if the Xenon flash has been retained, the flash itself has been replaced with the iPhone's dual-tone 4-LED flash. The iPhone SE 3's front-facing camera was also added to the front of the phone.

An important change that was made was the replacement of the Lumia 1020's micro USB port with the iPhone SE (3rd gen)'s Lightning port. Sadly, there was no way to retain the headphone jack as adding an audio jack to an iPhone is a herculean task neither were they able to add wireless charging.

Another interesting modification is the camera shutter button on the Lumia 1020 — while it has been retained and can be used to take photos, it is also connected to the volume switch, allowing it to work as a second volume down button. The poster also revealed that although Apple Pay doesn't work, CarPlay does. The network signal is also reportedly good and the phone still receives updates.

Overall, this is a pretty interesting modification, and while it isn't actually hackintosh (macOS on a non-Apple computer), it somehow still satisfies the Apple software (iOS) running on non-Apple hardware criteria.