Hey there everybody this is Phil with AndroidCentral.com here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
First up, LG G5.
So here we have it, the LG G5.
This is a 5.3 inch display, basically the same display as we've had in the LG G4.
Really good still.
Really new this time though we have two cameras on the back, one is a wide angle lens one
is a more normal lens so we've got 16 megapixels and then 8 megapixels just kind of depends
on which one you want to use.
A lot of features you can do that with though it's a lot of fun, and it is really wide you
can capture just about everything.
You have really easy one touch access.
So the wide angle camera, or the normal, not zoomed in camera, the normal angle camera.
The camera app this time around it's very much LG's kind of stock camera app: you've
got your usual modes, you've got your usual settings.
We still have manual video settings with raw video output.
New this time is we have film filters that will Give your pictures sort of that old school
film look.
Live previews of what each one looks like so you can kind of get different colour tints
it's a really nice feature and something LG has kind of shied away from in the past but
it's nice to see here.
We also have the quick sharing capabilities in the photo app that LG brought to the V10,
very happy to see that, it's a really easy way to take a picture and immediately share
it to Facebook or Instagram or wherever.
LG has decidedly switched from plastic body to metal body this time around it feels really
nice, maybe not quite as metallic as we've seen by other manufactures but it's definitely
a big change.
What you'll notice is missing is there aren't really any antenna lines, they call this micronizing
this process.
I don't know where they are, they're hidden, they're in there somewhere.
Really does look beautiful, sleek, nice curves to it, but nothing breaking up the lines of
the design of the phone at all.
Also new to the G5 is we have a fingerprint sensor.
Now the power button is still built into that and that's important and it's really easy
to use this time around definitely enjoying it more already than the LG V10
Software wise we've got Android 6.0 Marshmallow and it's changed up a little bit.
LG's design has.
It's not bad, it;s definitely a little brighter, a little lighter, very fast.
Now the big change this time around is no app drawer.
We've seen Chinese manufacturers do that, haven't really seen anything out of Korea,
especially phones that we get in North America.
No app drawer whatsoever so everything ends up here on the home screen they do have a
sort of separate apps for apps you recently opened which is kind of weird but whatever.
So 32 gigabytes of storage is standard here.
We might see that change up in various markets but 32 gigs is probably what you're going
to get.
It does still take an SD card, that's in the SIM tray a Micro SD card.
But it does not use adoptable storage so its your basic SD card you'll be able to pop it
out of the phone and into a computer or other phone or however you want to transfer your
files.
But no adoptable storage which is a feature in ANDROID 6.0 MARSHMALLOW.
The other huge giant change for the G5, this is an incredible feature is that the battery
is still removable but it's modular it comes out like this you have these removable modules
and the battery pops of these and you can stick the batteries onto other modules.
So the camera module it actually gives you a better gives and it gives you a total of
400 milliamp hour battery life so you have extra battery built into it.
Its got a dedicated dual action shutter button it's got manual zooming control so you don't
have to worry about touching the screen and it's got a quick button for actually accessing
the camera and dumping back out of the camera to the phone itself.
Really handy, really cool
So the digital audio module will increase things to 32 bit digital audio it sounds great
and it will have a separate headphone port on the bottom that will be dedicated to this
and that's what you'll use to do that and because of the way it works you'll be able
to get this high definition audio out of any application and not just LG's own music application
Then there's a 360-VR camera that will do 360-VR photos and videos.
We've seen other manufacturers do that, what LG is doing differently is they're calling
it friends and the modules and all these other accessories they all have a similar friends
branding these idea is to use the friends app and in the LG G5 it's called the friends
manager to seamlessly connect all these other friends devices that idea is you don't want
to have to see any setup whatsoever there's a little bit of setup there always has to
be
But Lg is trying to make it easy as possible with the friends manager
And we have this little guy, this is the LG rolling bot.
Its rolls and it's a bot.
It will do home monitoring and LG actually has some other products that for that as well
in the robotics space.
It will watch your pets it will watch your kids, it will scare your pets but it's actually
really cute it makes cool little robot noises
Flashes lights.
Lasers, it has lasers.
This is the LG rolling bot I can't wait to actually sit down and play with this it looks
like so much fun.
So there you go a very quick look at the LG G5 from Barcelona and Mobile World Congress.
Seeya