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When the parts add up

South Korean tech giant LG has built the world's first mass-market modular smartphone.

Published Fri, May 13, 2016 · 09:50 PM

HAVE you ever wanted your smartphone to be more flexible, and do more? More than what it was designed for, and more flexible than what it is currently capable of?

This is what tech companies plan for, which explains why they always come out with new, slightly improved products each year, to meet rising expectations. The industry calls it "the rolling out of incremental upgrades", to convince owners that their current devices are not good enough.

But what if these upgrades were made available in another way?

The latest LG G5…

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