LG G5 Friends hands on: LG CAM Plus and LG Hi-Fi Plus | Pocketnow

Опубликовано 21 февраля 2016, 13:00

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The LG G5 is a great phone on its own, but it’s the so called “friends”, the add-ons or modules, so to speak, that give it additional functionality and/or value. I’m Anton D. Nagy reporting from MWC 2016, and this is a quick look at LG G5’s friends, brought to you by dbrand..

The LG 360 CAM and the LG 360 VR are also “friends” of the LG G5, but we’ll take a look at them in a separate video.

This is the LG CAM Plus, a camera grip add-on for those who want to take their camera experience to the next level. You eject the battery, place it in the CAM Plus module, reinsert it, and, upon reboot, you can not only take pictures in a more point-and-snooty way, but you will also extend the battery of the G5 by 15% all the way up to 4,000mAh (from 2800mAh).

The CAM Plus takes controls from the screen and places them at your fingertips. Whether that’s the shutter button, the video record button, or the analog dial for seamlessly and smoothly zooming in and out, the user experience is dramatically improved.

Now this is nothing new, Nokia did it with the Lumia 1020 back in the day, granted, with a different approach, but the added value is absolutely there. If there’s one thing we need to complain about, it’s the added thickness. We just wish it added just a little more bulk in order to hold it in a more comfortable way. Sometimes, bulk, has its advantages.

When you’re done shooting and you want to slim the phone back to normal you can just eject the module and revert to stock, or start using a different friend, like the HiFi Plus module.

This one is for the audiophiles among you. It will come bundled with Bang & Olufsen H3 earbuds and LG will try to offer a premium listening experience. The Hi-Fi Plus module is basically a DAC and headphone amplifier that’s specifically tuned for the best experience by Bang & Olufsen. What’s great about the Hi-Fi Plus module is that you can listen to music up-sampled from the phone to 24 bits if you plug in the headphones at the top of the device, on the dedicated headphone jack, but then if you plug them into the bottom jack, on the module itself, the entire experience is changed, and you’re listening to music that’s been tuned by b&O.

Of course, we will take all of these modules for a spin with the occasion of our LG G5 review, but until then, make sure to check out our LG G5 hands-on and comparisons already live here on YouTube.

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