Upcoming HMD phones codenamed Legend, LegendPro spotted on Geekbench ahead of launch

HIGHLIGHTS

• Nokia parent HMD is launching smartphones under its own brand name starting this year.
• As many as nine new HMD phones were spotted on IMEI, hinting at an imminent global launch.
• We have spotted two of those (Legend, LegendPro) on Geekbench, which hints the launch is inching closer.

It’s known news that HMD (Human Mobile Devices), earlier makers of iconic Nokia phones, is launching multiple smartphones under its own brand name this year. Shortly after updating and rebranding the Nokia website to HMD with a little tease of its upcoming phones, we have spotted two of those devices (Legend, LegendPro) on Geekbench. Even though we don’t have a launch date yet, the HMD launch announcement might be nearing.

HMD Legend, LegendPro Geekbench listing

• The two listings on Geekbench 6 go by the names HMD Global Legend and HMD Global LegendPro.
• The phones are running on an octa-core chipset paired with a Mali-G57 GPU, with a max clock speed of 1.61GHz. This is alleged to be the Unisoc T606 chipset.
• The Legend scores 379 in the single-core set and 1,370 points in the multi-core test. As for the LegendPro, the scores are 373 and 1,384 in the single and multi-core tests respectively.
• The listings also show the phones will come with Android 14 out-of-the-box.
• While the HMD Legend could pack up tp 4GB RAM, the LegendPro will come with memory up to 8GB.

HMD phones launch: what we know so far

Not much is known in terms of the specifications of the upcoming HMD phones, but they seem to resemble the old Nokia Lumia series, if the redesigning of the former Nokia website is anything to go by. HMD teased three phones in bright colours a few days ago, in variants of blue, green and pink. We’re assuming two of these are the HMD Legend and LegendPro, since they would be among the first batch of phones to arrive.

Leaks about the upcoming HMD phones have been sporadic. 91mobiles had earlier leaked a render of one of HMD’s first phones. Basis the image, the phone seemed like a lower mid-ranger with a plastic, matte back. Another leak couple of days later suggested the smartphone (or another from the first batch) could come with a 108MP OIS camera.  Tipster Evan Blass had also shared that the upcoming HMD phones were codenamed Pulse, Legend, Pulse+, Legend Plus, Pulse Pro and Legend Pro.

There could be as many as three smartphones launching in the first batch, while a total of nine have been certified by the IMEI. HMD has announced an event at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month, which might see an unveiling.