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LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
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Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
#12This might give people a taste for what really modular devices like Ara can offer, but the fact that it doesn't do battery swaps without powering down is going to make it far less interesting to people. An internal battery to give you 30-60s in an emergency hibernate mode would have been game-changing. Kudos to LG for actually taking this step though. With luck this will whet the appetite for phones that are truly mo…
> internal battery to give you 30-60s
you meant a super condensator, right?
Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
#13This might give people a taste for what really modular devices like Ara can offer, but the fact that it doesn't do battery swaps without powering down is going to make it far less interesting to people. An internal battery to give you 30-60s in an emergency hibernate mode would have been game-changing. Kudos to LG for actually taking this step though. With luck this will whet the appetite for phones that are truly mo…
I've never heard of someone needing a phone to stay on while changing the battery.
I bet a huge majority would prefer it. It's just not really been a sensible compromise, so no one even thinks about it.
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#14Not sure why they would cripple it with just 32GB of internal storage. Too much Android stuff refuses to run from, or store data on, the SDCard.
Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
#15This might give people a taste for what really modular devices like Ara can offer, but the fact that it doesn't do battery swaps without powering down is going to make it far less interesting to people. An internal battery to give you 30-60s in an emergency hibernate mode would have been game-changing. Kudos to LG for actually taking this step though. With luck this will whet the appetite for phones that are truly mo…
I've never heard of someone needing a phone to stay on while changing the battery.
It's pretty common in enterprise-grade handhelds like Windows Embedded devices to include a little bridge battery.
Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
#16This might give people a taste for what really modular devices like Ara can offer, but the fact that it doesn't do battery swaps without powering down is going to make it far less interesting to people. An internal battery to give you 30-60s in an emergency hibernate mode would have been game-changing. Kudos to LG for actually taking this step though. With luck this will whet the appetite for phones that are truly mo…
> internal battery to give you 30-60s you meant a super condensator, right?
Supercap or battery: anything with a decent enough density to give you enough time to swap the battery without losing state or being stressed out.
Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
#17Not sure why they would cripple it with just 32GB of internal storage. Too much Android stuff refuses to run from, or store data on, the SDCard.
Newer android releases use the SD card in a much cleaner way that allow pretty much anything to run off of them.
Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
#18Internal battery is only 2,800mAh :-(
Which doesn't really indicate what battery life is going to be like.
Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
> internal battery to give you 30-60s you meant a super condensator, right?
Supercap or battery: anything with a decent enough density to give you enough time to swap the battery without losing state or being stressed out.
A cap like that might not fit.
Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
#20My "is it worth even thinking about a particular device" litmus test is "can it run CM". Unfortunately that's impossible to tell for future devices, most of the time.