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Back when LG launched its G5 phone at last year’s Mobile World Congress, its revolutionary modular system was met with a fair amount of acclaim. But a clunky execution and a lack of third-party support doomed the handset before it could get off the ground, and the Moto Z’s more elegant magnetic solution all but put a nail in the G5’s coffin.
So it should come as no surprise that LG is backing away from the modular concept. According to The Wall Street Journal, the phone maker is planning to release its G6 handset “in the very near future,” but its Friends might not be coming along. LG told the paper that it would be “scaling back the modularity of the G6, compared with the G5, and is instead focusing on the phone’s aesthetics and usability.”
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