Some bits of background information:

##. The sample shown here is not production-ready, it's a revision "DV2" (visible at timestamp 5:50 in the upper left corner of the device) which was hand-assembled approximately one year before the planned launch (~Oct/Nov 2019) to be presented at CES and closed-door customer meetings.

DV stands for "Development version", which is the phase where all the parts are assembled to proceed development in the various SW/HW/Quality Teams.

In LG-terms that means it was only the SECOND revision of that hardware that the R&D built. Usually there were 4-5 additional revisions on mechanical design, board layout, RF-tuning etc. before entering mass-production (LG cycle: EV->DV1->DV2->DVx->PV1->PV2->MP--> Mass-production)

The MP-revision is the initial mass-production test, where the factory tested if they can efficiently mass-produce this design by producing ~500pcs and keeping notes on issues and difficulties to fix before entering actual high-volume production.

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- the original Motorola StarTac "Star Trek Communicator" flip.

- the Danger Hiptop / Sidekick II rotating screen-over-keyboard

- the Motorola Droid slide-out keyboard

- the OnePlus 7Pro slide-out selfie-cam

Only that last one was motorized, but mine is still working. Holes and divots and islands and any other kind of screen interference is strictly inferior.

The site also puts two non-youtube video ads in front of the youtube video so you can't just watch it.

The G5 was another great phone, I believe it was designed to be a "modular phone" the bottom would come out letting you take the battery out, but it could also add an attachment to the phone, I never did buy an attachment though, and I think the last one I had was the G7.

I enjoyed their tablets too.

For some reason people cling to other brands, and slept on LG which made some really decent Android phones.

Both my G5 and G7 still turn on, I always say that by the release of the G7 (I forget the year) and possibly the G5, all decent quality smartphones got to the "good enough" stage of smartphones where it feels like I could own one for more than just 2 years before it shows signs of wear.

Phones get the crap kicked out of them. They need to be really robust.

I have an iPhone 17 Pro, and it's the first one that I've had (since the SE), that seems to have some "clunk" to it. I've already dropped it a couple of times, with no issues.

I want one of those "shake to flip" phones they had in Geostorm.