LG made a big fuss about the Velvet’s new design, and built up buzz over several weeks. When it finally launched, the company revealed a contemporary and attractive phone, but nothing revolutionary.

The LG Velvet’s 6.8-inch 1080p OLED screen curves on left and right side—a first for LG but definitely ... The LG G5 is infamous for attempting and failing on starting a modular smartphone ...

LG Velvet review: sleek, not smooth. ... is disappointing considering that LG was the first major phone maker to ship one all the way back on 2016’s G5.

After the LG G5’s reveal at CES 2025, one of the headline announcements – and what I described as its most anticipated upgrade – was a big claimed boost in its fullscreen brightness, an area ...

A modular mistake — LG's downfall can be traced back to the G5, the company's first and last stab at a modular smartphone.The idea was unique — a phone with a removable battery and swappable ...

What everyone wants, or claims to want, from a smartphone is essentially the LG G5 plus its external modules built into the same handset. So that’s an 8mm-thick phone with a huge 4,000mAh ...

The LG G5 will have a dual displays, according to a report from both CNET Korea and VentureBeat. The main display of the LG G5 is said be a 5.3-inch screen with a 2560 x 1440 resolution.

As you might imagine, thanks to LG’s new modular design, iFixIt had a pretty easy time dismantling the G5, with most of the phone being held together by a few screws, clips, and minimal adhesive.

1. LG G5 The battery unclips with a firm, sideways tug, and is reattached to the new module, which is slid back into the phone. It’s neat, well designed, and sensibly made.

At a workshop event at LG’s U.S. headquarters in NJ, we got a chance to check out and even measure the new G5 panel’s brightness and compare it to an LG G4, a Samsung S95D (2024 QD-OLED flagship TV) ...

The LG G5 is one of the oldest LG phones around, but if you still have one, you'll want to keep it going. Here are solutions to some of the G5's problems.