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MWC: The best and worst of the past five years

Mobile World Congress is the premier trade show for mobile hardware, software, accessories and services. We regularly see new smartphones and wearables, some good and some bad, so let's take a glance at the past five years.
By Matthew Miller, Contributing Writer
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2017: LG G6

As we look back over the last five years of MWC, we see some winners and some losers. Samsung tended to have winners most of the time, while LG and HTC had a few difficult projects.

The LG G6 was announced last year and was the first of the 2017 phones to maximize the display and blow away the screen-to-body ratio. It was a fantastic phone, but didn't get much respect when Samsung followed up soon after with the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus.

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