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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

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Post by gameboy24 »

danielconde wrote: post #3
jfrumar wrote: post #2

I'm so glad LG are sticking with a switchable battery - it's a must have feature for me. Lots of people have forgotten what it's like to grab a wall-charged battery, slip it in and run out the door with 100% power in a few seconds. Tethering your phone to the wall sucks. Clunky portable battery packs are the worst. I hope this phone sells well, it has my support.

I agree. I wish it had wireless charging like Qi, but metal cases apparently makes it more difficult to implement

It could be possible to add on via the modular slide out thing though

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Post by hammock »

maxerickson wrote: post #13
post_break wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Of course they would prefer it, if there were no trade-offs. But as you point out it's not currently sensible.

Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface

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Post by noobie »

Rant.

It really bugs me when consumers ask for more features regardless of their feasibility, here we have a great phone with changebale batteries and yet we ask for it to be still on while we swap the batteries! Hasn't it occurred to us that maybe it's technically difficult to add in a supercap. Just be thankful. This is like constentaly asking for phones with more RAM and processing power, I am really glad Moore's law has come to end, maybe now consumers will be faced with the harsh truth that it is not simple to keep on creating more powerful devices for them to watch cat videos on.

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Post by goda90 »

post_break wrote: post #10
mmastrac wrote: post #8

This 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.

Well as the article points out, adding modules involves taking out the battery. There might be other design options besides an extra battery/super capacitor, but it kinda weakens the utility of quick change modules.

Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

noobie wrote: post #24
CountHackulus wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which doesn't really indicate what battery life is going to be like.

Do elaborate please. (Not /s)

We don't know how much power the phone actually draws in use.

Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface

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Post by pjc50 »

Cyph0n wrote: post #19
mmastrac wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Maybe .. another battery? One with 5-10% the size and capacity of the main one? Although in both cases the power management is a little tricky.

Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface

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Post by danielconde »

noobie wrote: post #23

Rant. It really bugs me when consumers ask for more features regardless of their feasibility, here we have a great phone with changebale batteries and yet we ask for it to be still on while we swap the batteries! Hasn't it occurred to us that maybe it's technically difficult to add in a supercap. Just be thankful. This is like constentaly asking for phones with more RAM and processing power, I am really glad Moore's…

I agree. With automobiles, people seem to be more aware of the constraints and the balance of capabilities to make a vehicle that fits a segment. I.e. sports cars aren't always comfortable. One day, people may understand tradeoffs in phones and realize that long battery life may require a thick phone.

Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface

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Post by agumonkey »

Random note, I recently used an old Nexus S as a mp3 player. I was surprised by the sound texture of crappy mp3 over my 10$ panasonic earclips... I started to wonder if the hardware wasn't responsible. According to some people it embeds a Wolfson DAC (of Wolfson DAC fame ~_~). It does makes a significant difference.
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