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  • I signed up. On the press release it says “those in attendance will receive a sweet, picture-perfect surprise”. Free 360 Cam for attendees perhaps? Seems worth it to me. Regardless of what you think of the phone’s design, the 360 cam could have some potential.

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  • I’m happy with my LG G5. I didn’t buy it for the modules, though, but if it indeed attracts some fair attention, I’m all for it. I just can’t bring myself to for HTC constant missteps or sell myself over to Samsung.

  • Maybe I’m alone but I didn’t buy the G5 for the modules and friends. If any of this takes off, great. If not, I’m not upset.

    • you most likely aren’t alone, but LG sure hopes you are, otherwise they wasted a lot of money trying to make modules to sell their phones.

    • a $39(69/99/199) “friend(s)” for an LG-branded phone which should cost no more than $400 itself?
      this is DOA.
      believe me.

      Why anyone would choose this useless gimmicks over a WATERPROOF AMOLED Galaxy S7 Edge?
      to get a funny yellow slide-out battery and bi-camera bump?

      LG is a joke.

      • Because after the s6e and not getting security updates while watching LG and HTC phones get them, I decided to go back to LG. The G2 was a great phone for the day once you put an AOSP ROM on it. The looks of the G5 don’t bother me, I wanted as good or better camera than my s6e, better battery life, and the possibility of putting on a custom ROM at some point. LG did that for me. If you’d rather have an s7, be my guest. It’s not my bag baby.

  • With LG only making 1 module and they are the manufacturer, where is the incentive for other companies to make modules for such a low selling phone?

  • Honestly who cares. When people walk into the store and look at the three flagships from LG, HTC, and Samsung, who is going to pick the G5?

    • Hopefully everyone picks up the G5 as well as all the other flagships. What is the point in going into a store if you don’t plan on picking up each phone, playing with each phone, see which feels better in the hand and seems smoothest, see which one has the best layout in your point of view.
      Now I’m sure you meant which one will they will end up buying once they have picked them all up and tested them.

  • LG is killing this before it even launches – “Friends” require co-development with LG and a contract to release them.

    “Q. Does the Modular Friends require co-development with LG?
    A. Yes. Modular Friends should be co-developed with us because it affects smartphone’s performance and design significantly.

    Q. How much can I take profits if my idea is implemented to a real product?
    A. Further discussion will be individually given when the co-development started. It is based on the mutual agreement and contract with you. ”

    http://developer.lge.com/Friends/develop/dev-modular/

  • This is when we will see if the modular design is worth it. How many manufatures will do this? Which manufactures will take part in this? What modules will become available? How much will these modules be?
    The G5 seems OK to me, but the modular design is not worth it until some of these questions are answered.

    • i hope this doesn’t become the make or break point for modules. i think they have a future, but LG is not the company to herald their age into the mainstream. especially when their flagship phones can’t even break into the mainstream.

      modules will become a thing once google or samsung or apple start doing it. before then, there is no company with enough clout to reach critical mass to be adopted by 3rd parties and the public.

  • i’m sure companies are just chomping at the bit to get on board with LG’s modules.

    /s

    • THIS. LG should have done this prior to launching it. Make sure it’s private (I know it’s hard) and then wow people with 3rd party modules. Now most people have locked into S7 and the few who go for this won’t really care about the possibility of modules that may or may not come

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    • Maybe this is HTC’s message to Google that they are serios about being the OEM to build Project Ara when it’s ready

    • haha. Seriously though,
      I would like to see Canon make a REAL camera module friend for this. Where I can attach my Canon EOS lens to the phone for some higher quality pictures/zooms.

  • Here is an idea LG, open it up to the developers to “Design” the phone so it isn’t so hideous???????? Ugh that thing is a mess to look at…

      • The backside is a complete disaster IMO and I am not a fan of the “Modular” design. Especially when half the stuff for it we won’t even see in the States. Why even make it if that is the case? Why not just improve on the G4? I think the G4 was one of the nicer looking phones they have made in recent years. Again, my opinion.

        • Yeah that’s fair- the back isn’t gorgeous (though I really like the placement of the power button/fingerprint reader). I’m still on the fence about the modularity- should be interesting to see if anything worthwhile comes out.

          • id also like to see them move away from a actual button on the rear. only have a flush fingerprint sensor that detects taps also. so you place your finger over it and if the screen is off it will turn on and unlock… if the screen is on you could double tap to turn it off. you could also double tap to turn screen on but not unlock (to check notification or time etc) they could make a dot on it or raised slightly so u could feel it without looking .. or indented slightly w.e. you get the point

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