LG G5 with modular design, dual camera on back unveiled

Meet the LG G5 – the first mainstream modular phone! There have been attempts in the past, the most recent being Google’s Project Ara, but none has found mainstream success.

Sleek body, functional addons

The G5 has a “fluid metal” body and beveled glass on the front; not even antenna slits spoil its perfect lines. There is a single seam, which separates the bottom part.

That’s the modular component – it can be removed to access the battery and card slots, and one of several add-ons can be inserted (this requires a reboot though).

The first add-on is a camera grip, the LG Cam Plus. It adds 1,100mAh battery and hardware controls – a hardware shutter key, a video button, zoom dial. Then there’s a Bang & Olufsen DAC for even better audio quality. LG will open the standard for third-party manufacturers to create even more add-ons.

One of a kind screen, unique dual camera

Back to the LG G5, it has a 5.3″ LCD with an always-on mode. It features a dedicated memory and a power-sipping secondary chip so that the main chipset can go to sleep while the screen remains on 24/7. The bespoke chip sips just 0.8% of battery per hour.

The dual selfie camera idea from the V10 has migrated to the G5 too, but as a main camera. One camera has 75° Field of View (FoV) and 16MP sensor, the second camera is much wider, 135° and 8MP sensor. Images from both cameras can be merged with various effects and a real-time preview.

Finally, the “regular” specs. The LG G5 is powered by a Snapdragon 820 chipset wtih 4GB of RAM. It has 32GB storage on board and a microSD slot. It’s 7.5mm-8mm thick and packs a small-ish 2,800mAh battery. Below the dual-camera is the fingerprint sensor.

The LG G5 will launch in early April in the initial group of…

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LG Rolling Bot goes official, will take care of your pet

LG’s last accessory at this MWC looks quite interesting. It’s the LG Rolling Bot – a home monitoring system. The spherical fella has an integrated camera and can livestream everything that’s happening in your home.

You can move it around your house and use it a remote control as well. It has an infra-red emitter, so you can fire up and control different appliances in your home – the TV, sound systems, air conditioner, among other things.

Finally, this cute robot can also take care of your pet. You can use it to watch and play with your dog or cat, you can even speak to them thanks to the integrated loudspeaker.

The Rolling Bot

The LG Rolling bot features a camera, a microphone, a speaker, there are some LEDs, too. It can be recharged via a regular USB charger, and we can surely put it to some work while we are away from home.

The rolling bot will hit the shelves around the same time the G5 goes on sale. Its retail price is yet to be announced. The compatibility of the Rolling Bot is yet to be detailed as well, but we hope it won’t be limited to just LG smart…

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LG announces LG 360 Cam

LG has just unveiled its first 360 VR headset and it just made sense to have a 360 camera as a companion accessory, right? So, the LG’s take is the LG 360 Cam – a very compact spherical camera with dual wide-angle 13MP snappers.

The camera supports 2K video recording, and its content can be easily uploaded to YouTube 360. Then you can view it with your LG 360 VR, or any other Cardboard compatible gadget.

LG 360 CAM

The LG 360 camera can also capture and upload multimedia content to Google Street View.

The camera is about to launch this spring, but the pricing is yet to be…

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LG unveils a compact LG 360 VR headset

The LG G5 announcement gave us more than the G5. The company introduced a new series of smart accessories including additional G5-compatible modules like the LG Cam Plus and LG Hi-Fi Plus.

In addition to those, you can treat yourself with some of the standalone gadgets. The first one to grab our attention was the LG 360 VR – an HMD (head-mounted display) headset. It requires connection to an external device to work (a smartphone or a slate) and looks like a very compact thing to wear on your head.

LG 360 VR

The LG 360 VR has two displays, 1.88″ 960x720px each, and is compatible with Google Cardboard and YouTube 360 content.

The LG 360 VR will become available this spring, but the pricing is yet to be…

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This Is The LG G5: Smaller Battery, Smaller Screen, Metal Body, VR And Drone Accessories

The LG G5 is LG simultaneously conforming to industry conventions while continuing its out-the-box approach.  It’s got a metal unibody, just like every smartphone out there. LG also moved the volume buttons back to the phone’s side after placing them in the back for the G2, G3 and G4. But it’s also got a unique modular design that lets users pull out the phone’s bottom to not only change batteries, but plug in bunch of other accessories as well.

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