{"id":216953,"date":"2026-02-24T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/5-android-phones-that-were-defined-by-their-weird-and-innovative-accessories\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:50:11","slug":"5-android-phones-that-were-defined-by-their-weird-and-innovative-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/5-android-phones-that-were-defined-by-their-weird-and-innovative-accessories\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Android phones that were defined by their weird and innovative accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-phones-that-were-defined-by-their-weird-and-innovative-accessories\/\">5 Android phones that were defined by their weird and innovative accessories<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-phones-that-were-defined-by-their-weird-and-innovative-accessories\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-phones-that-were-defined-by-their-weird-and-innovative-accessories\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-24 11:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For most Android phones, accessories are a boring afterthought. Cases, chargers, maybe a kickstand if you\u2019re lucky. However, some Android phones have made accessories a core part of the experience. The ideas didn\u2019t always work, but they were always interesting.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"lg-g5-2016\">\n                        LG G5 (2016)<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0LG<\/p>\n<p>The LG G5 kicked off a short-lived period of time when Android phone makers were tinkering around with modular designs. The bottom of the phone slid out like a magazine in a gun. The idea was that you could slide in various modules called \u201cFriends,\u201d or simply swap out the battery\u2014a feature that was slowly becoming extinct.<\/p>\n<p>LG released two \u201cFriends\u201d modules at launch: a camera grip and the Bang &#038; Olufsen Hi-Fi Plus. The camera grip had a pressure-sensitive shutter button, zoom wheel, and video recording key. The Hi-Fi module featured a 32-bit, 384 kHz DAC with its own separate headphone jack. The camera grip cost $70, and the Hi-Fi was priced at over $150.<\/p>\n<p>The LG G5 was a solid phone that received generally positive reviews. However, the modules were not well-received, and they didn\u2019t help the phone\u2019s sales. A year later, LG completely ditched the modular design for the G6 and never tried it again.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"moto-z-2016\">\n                        Moto Z (2016)<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>  &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-phones-that-were-defined-by-their-weird-and-innovative-accessories\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Android phones that were defined by their weird and innovative accessories https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-phones-that-were-defined-by-their-weird-and-innovative-accessories\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/phone-accessories.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[146,114],"class_list":["post-216953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-lg","tag-moto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216955,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216953\/revisions\/216955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}