LGmodular smartphoneLast featured May 2025
LG G5
I'd skip itI'd give this a miss.
Fun and Lego-like, but modular phones create e-waste and are not a good idea for any company in 2025.
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- Price when I covered it
- £400–900
- Featured in
- 2 videos · 2020–2025
- Category
- Phones · Concept & rare
What I liked
- Swappable battery
- Camera grip and hi-fi modules add features
What I didn't
- Modules become e-waste when the phone is replaced
- Expensive body needed to support all options
- Modular ecosystem for one phone
- Too few buyers
In my words
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“an ecosystem of modules built just for this one phone is destined to fail”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
5:16I Tested the Weirdest Phones on the Internet.Fun and Lego-like, but modular phones create e-waste and are not a good idea for any company in 2025.
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5:0713 PAINFUL Smartphone Fails we’ll never forget.The modular ecosystem was doomed because too few people bought the phone to attract accessory makers.
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Why it's on these shelves
- Sustainability
“how do you make it so such that all of these pieces they don't just become e-waste”
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