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After seeing the G5, my thoughts on Project Ara have changed

April 20, 2016

When the LG G5 was announced a couple of months ago during Mobile World Congress, I was impressed. The design is completely fresh and new, and that’s something I feel we don’t come across often in this industry anymore. Its “modular type” design seems to be a good stepping stone between what we have now and true modular smartphones, such as Project Ara, that we expect to see in the future. You can mod a couple of aspects of the G5, but not too much so that you’re overwhelmed.

A lot of people seemed excited about the G5 when it was announced, but the tone changed quickly once reviewers got their hands on them. Certain aspects of the design seemed cheap (gaps between removable bottom edge and the rest of the device, dings in the aluminum body, not to mention the aluminum body doesn’t feel like aluminum due to a primer coating) and, as it turns out, people aren’t really all that giddy about interchangeable modules.

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