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LG G5 hands-on: Taking one small step toward the modular fantasy

2016-02-21
the g5 is finally here and it's one of the boldest and most unique flagships LG has designed in a long time for one thing LG went with an elegant aluminum design but instead of ditching the removable battery which a lot of phone companies have done with their top tier phones the g5s battery pulls out at the bottom of the phone second LG released and this is just an estimate about a bajillion other products in conjunction with the g 5s launch some are standard like a new Bluetooth headset while others tread into new territory for LG like a house monitoring robot and a refreshed VR headset but one interesting thing is the cam plus which is a camera grip that connects modularly when you detach the handsets bottom chin it has physical shutter buttons to record and capture video and a zooming dial while the accessory itself is pretty basic it does mean that LG is dipping its toes into swappable phone parts which has long been considered the next big step in the mobile industry lastly the LG g5 has two rear cameras you have a standard 16 megapixel shooter and an 8 megapixel camera with a wide-angle 135-degree lens this means you could fit more into the frame and you could switch seamlessly between the two cameras when you zoom in and out of course the g5 wouldn't be a flagship without all the other stuff that keeps it competitive the 5.3 inch handset has a fingerprint sensor a USB type-c port a Snapdragon 820 processor and expandable storage it also runs google android 6.0 and it's screen has an always-on mode which displays basic info even when your device is sleeping while no exact pricing or availability information has been released yet the company is looking at a retail launch sometime in april
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