REMOVABLE BATTERY
The LG G5 is a rare breed of smartphones, as it is one of the very few now which offer a removable battery.
Years ago it was almost a given that you’d be able to remove the battery from your phone, buy a spare and swap them round when one had died. However, as phones began to demand style and fashion sense, the days of removable batteries are now numbered.
LG is one of the last remaining holdouts for the removable battery form – and a button towards the base of the left side of the G5 allows you to pull the bottom bezel out of the phone when pressed. Attached to this bezel is LG’s luminous power pack which you can up clip – with a large amount of force.
I was worried I might snap the connectors, such was the force required to remove the battery and I fear this could be a weak point going forward for the G5.
The G5 comes with a 2800mAh power pack, which is actually smaller than the LG G4, and the Samsung Galaxy S7 – both of which offer 3000mAh batteries.