Nexus 6P

totally disagree with this...we have been watching other smartphones coming out with rather uninteresting designs but made with premium materials and succeeding...the S6/7? look like older iphones wrapped around an Android phone, not to mention they are basically the same device slightly updated. And yet, we still pour money into these repetitive, iterative smartphones because of pretty advertisements and a collective need to have the latest phone (obviously a well informed user won't, but i call it the Iphonitis) I think this would be the one opportunity for LG to truly step outside of the box and try their hand with higher end materials, and a push toward innovation that makes sense.

Sure, the G5 (i have it, and i love it) isn't the BEST phone available. The gap from the chin, the primer over metal body, the curve at the top of the screen, all things that could have been better made. But also, they manage to keep a removable battery, with a wide angle camera that makes taking pictures fun for the first time in 3-5 years(seriously besides for panoramas, the lens is really great for big pictures, and the software that they added makes it even better), and does it without YET ANOTHER iteration of the same phone year over year, no matter how successful previous versions were...

I think the most important thing to take away from the G5 is that people are starting to get tired of seeing the same phone re-branded with a slightly faster processor and a new name every year, and as far as I am concerned, LG has a novel idea that (if we are lucky) may or may not tie into Project ARA with Google (now that they are Alphabet, and LG DID just make the 5X, which looks a LOT like the G5...) and usher in a realistic generation of modular phones that make sense, and have the build quality we expect when we are paying 700-900 dollars for a device.

The G5 is very much like a Nexus unit in that it allows them to take to the drawing board with a new design, that will almost CERTAINLY carry over to whatever we can expect the G6 to be. Remember, they released the G4 AND the V10, i don't think they need another huge rectangle smartphone, but they are trying new things...second display, amazing cameras, modular design...all experiments. And while it may not be the best, i certainly don't think it is the worst design around...(looking at you, Nexus 6)

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