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every year Mobile World Congress leaves us with a brand new batch of smartphones but not all of them are worth your time here are the ones getting the most attention on CNET right now in no particular order LG's latest flagship ditch the modular design for a more polished look it's got a 5.7 inch screen with barely-there bezels and a waterproof casing that will survive just about any spill or even a quick dunk in the pool you kept that dual lens camera on the back with a wide-angle option and now with even more bells and whistles to take advantage of it sadly what you won't find this year is that removable battery that we loved from LG but at least wireless charging is a good consolation price it may not end up being a best-seller but this throwback phone is definitely causing a scene at MWC the Nokia 3310 came back from its 17-year hiatus and brought snake along with it it's got a rounder and slimmer design and color display but aside from that it's the same old brick phone you know and loved terrible image quality 2 megapixel camera and web browsing at snail speed the cost of traveling back in time about $50 the BlackBerry key 1 maybe another phone banking on nostalgia this year if you're still yearning for the days of physical keyboards and bbm messages this one's for you it's got the perks of the pass plus all the modern conveniences of the present a 4.5 inch touch screen and fingerprint scanner running the latest version of Android and perhaps its biggest draw the security software to keep your information private Sony unveiled its top-of-the-line XE premium this year with a 4k HDR display super slow-mo video and the most powerful Snapdragon processor in the market right now but it's mid-range sibling is actually the one turning heads at least on CNET the XA one and the XA one ultra have an elegant design with a nearly edge-to-edge display and USB C port but the 720p resolution is a huge step down no fingerprint scanner and it won't withstand spills of any sort so if you're looking for bang for your buck Lenovo's new Moto G 5 and D 5 plus maybe the better bet less than $250 will get you a nice looking splash proof phone with a fingerprint scanner 1080p display and removable battery for smaller version and the same 12 megapixel sensor as Samsung Galaxy s7 which we love us customers may have a hard time getting their hands on the smaller d5 because only the 5.2 inch will be available stateside this one wasn't even at the show but it's already making its presence known samsung announced the sequel to the s7 at their keynote on sunday promising to create innovation of a kind this industry hasn't seen in a very long time cliche aside this phone is already shaping up to be the talk of the town in the first half of 2017