CREDIT: LG
The new LG G5 series brings technological advances to a whole 'notha level.

With the slowing down of Moore’s Law in the smartphone industry, there has not been much innovation lately. I do not consider curved screens an innovation because that technology is more of a gimmick, like 3D TVs. They look cool at Best Buy, but there is no positive outcome of using them.

LG has come to the rescue with something innovative and useful.

The LG G series is innovative. It is the first phone to offer physical buttons on the back of the phone to avoid accidental side button pressing, and of course the first phone to offer a display beyond high definition. The LG G5 sports a flagship leading 4 gigabytes of ram, which are basically 300 mobile browsing tabs open at the same time.

The device also carries a Snapdragon 820 processor, which again is the best you can get, and its trademark quad high definition display.

It also has a duel lens camera, allowing you to take a normal 16-megapixel snapshot or a wide eight megapixel, 135-degree shot. The phone will also toggle between the two based on what you are looking at.

This all sounds good, but the real innovation comes when you remove the bottom panel. The bottom panel of the G5 is the default module. This means, you can take it off and attach third party modules.

So far there are three modules. The first is called the LG Cam Plus, which when attached gives you a physical button camera base, like you are actually holding a digital camera. This module actually adds more battery power to the phone. The second module is called the Hi- Fi Plus. This will turn the G5 into an audio player that makes music sound like you are actually at a concert.

Finally, and most importantly, LG will be releasing a virtual reality (VR) system to compete with Samsung’s Gear VR.

At this time, the phone and modules have no pricing information, but will be released this summer.