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G5 Unit 5 Research Paper

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LG's upcoming G5 smartphone is the follow up to their earlier G4 model. The G5 was recently announced at MWC 2016. The G5 features a 5.3-inch display. As well as dual rear cameras, in addition to the front-facing camera. The phone also sports a removable battery and expandable storage. As well as running the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow Operating System. Today we'll be giving you an early preview of LG's upcoming G5 smartphone.

The new phone moves away from the G4's design scheme with its back-mounted volume buttons. Instead opting for more traditional side-mounted buttons. The G5 also allows for a number of different modular attachments which can be installed by completely removing the phone's lower portion. This means that the G5 is easily upgradable, and can have a much longer lifespan than most other commercially available smartphones.

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The G5 is powered by a Snapdragon 820 processor. The phone also includes 32 Gigabytes of storage space and …show more content…

However, the smartphone still functions extremely well without any of the optional modules. But the modules can still change how you use the phone. Adding a module is accomplished by pressing a button on the lower left side of the phone, which will pop off the phone's lower section. You can then replace the phone's lower section with any one of a number of optional modules. As well as remove or replace the phone's battery. Although not game-changing, the modular design allows the phone to be upgradable, and could allow for things like improved battery power, extra storage, or any number of other things. However, only two modules will be available at launch. One of which is an audio module that upgrade's the phone's sound to be compatible with 32-bit devices and the other being a camera module that also improves the phone's battery

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