{"id":222790,"date":"2026-03-12T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/this-new-android-phone-reminds-us-of-lgs-failed-2016-experiment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:55:10","slug":"this-new-android-phone-reminds-us-of-lgs-failed-2016-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/this-new-android-phone-reminds-us-of-lgs-failed-2016-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"This New Android Phone Reminds Us Of LG&#8217;s Failed 2016 Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2118846\/tecno-atom-repeats-lg-failed-modular-phone\/\">This New Android Phone Reminds Us Of LG&#8217;s Failed 2016 Experiment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2118846\/tecno-atom-repeats-lg-failed-modular-phone\/\">https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2118846\/tecno-atom-repeats-lg-failed-modular-phone\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-12 11:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bgr.com\">www.bgr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Daniel Krason\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) event held in Barcelona, Spain, as per the norm, various companies in the mobile industry showcased a variety of devices and concepts that had been in the works for the past year. There was a lot of stuff going on \u2014\u00a0this year&#8217;s highlights were Chinese phones, 6G, and dancing robots\u00a0\u2014\u00a0but one of the more interesting gadgets was a handset that might give you a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese smartphone company Tecno\u00a0showcased over 10 concept devices at the expo. One of these was the Atom, a concept phone that\u00a0comes with a slim profile by default and stands out from the crowd by offering modular components that can be attached or detached based on your needs.\u00a0These include\u00a0a telephoto lens, an action camera, a stackable battery module, and a\u00a0speaker for better sound. The phone uses magnets to connect the components, a system\u00a0Tecno is referring to as Modular Magnetic Interconnection Technology.<\/p>\n<p>If that concept sounds familiar, you might remember the\u00a0LG G5 smartphone from 2016, which featured modular components that let you customize the hardware \u2014 albeit without magnets. It came at a time when Android was going through its modular phase, with\u00a0Google&#8217;s own Project Ara promising similar levels of hardware customization. While the LG G5 was one of the more mainstream modular phones, being sold at carrier stores and Best Buy,\u00a0it was ultimately a failure, as LG returned to a more traditional form factor\u00a0the very&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2118846\/tecno-atom-repeats-lg-failed-modular-phone\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This New Android Phone Reminds Us Of LG&#8217;s Failed 2016 Experiment https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2118846\/tecno-atom-repeats-lg-failed-modular-phone\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/img\/gallery\/this-new-android-phone-reminds-us-of-lgs-failed-2016-experiment\/l-intro-1773066883.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,146],"class_list":["post-222790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-lg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222790"}],"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=222790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222792,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222790\/revisions\/222792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}