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
#2I'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.
Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
#3I'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
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#4Modularity comes with a price in form of wasted space. Nevertheless, this is something completely fresh from a major smartphone vendor. And it is done with their flagship phone. That's the spirit.
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#5It appears that LG is the only company to dare offer real innovation on its flagship models. I don't know how well this model will do but it seems it's not just a faster rehash of last year's model.
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#6Internal battery is only 2,800mAh :-(
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#7Modularity comes with a price in form of wasted space. Nevertheless, this is something completely fresh from a major smartphone vendor. And it is done with their flagship phone. That's the spirit.
Some phones are at the point where I am prepared to opt for something thicker/heavier in order to get a bit more out of it.
Longer battery life, swappable battery, greater durability, better camera, etc. I can absolutely handle the phone being a few millimetres thicker to get these things.
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#8This 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 modular (and show manufacturers that there is a market for swappable parts).
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#9Internal battery is only 2,800mAh :-(
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Re: LG G5 modular phone: Hi-Fi DAC, battery slide out, connection interface
#10This 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.