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OPINION It is that time of year when I reflect on what excited me most about devices I reviewed during the year. I reviewed smartphones from $99 to $1799. Some were remarkable.

Google’s new 5” Pixel and the 5.5” XL are good smartphones, verging on great, but their strongest attraction - Pure Android - needs some work. Its user interface (UI) is nowhere near as polished, intuitive or useful as Samsung, LG, Moto, Sony et al.

The British consumer group Which? has found that the iPhone 7 battery is the worst among recent big-brand smartphones, after the group compared it with the Samsung Galaxy S7, the HTC 10 and the LG G5.

LG has posted vastly improved Q2 financial results – nearly 140% higher than the previous year.

LG has studied the "symptoms and effects of drained battery power on smartphone owners" and has dubbed this "harmful condition" as "battery anxiety".

LG’s 360 CAM is a beautifully designed, very functional, usable 360° camera – the only issue is that you need to think about what is around, above, behind, and in front of you. Let’s call the totality of 360° photography the “photosphere”.

In just over a week, LG’s anticipated new ‘modular’ Android smartphone, the G5, comes alive and arrives in Australia, with plenty of friends coming soon too.

LG's Mobile Chief in Australia, Gino Casha, let us take a sneak peek of the LG G5 before launch in April, and have a look at its world-first LG Stylus DAB+ radio phone coming later this year.

No Australian prices or availability yet, but LG’s secret is out: a ‘modular’ smartphone and companion ‘LG Friends’ designed to outclass Samsung, Apple and everyone else.