The invite for the LG Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 press event has the company promise a farewell to touch-- instead, gesture appears to be the input method of choice for the latest devices from the S. Korean company.

"Are you prepared to get stunned by the LG Premiere at the MWC 2019?" the description of the YouTube video asks, before giving a 24 February date for the MWC launch event. As to what LG will launch no one really knows for sure, although the grapevine suggests it will carry the "Premiere" name. Then again, perhaps that might simply be a case of taking the title of the teaser video a bit too literally...

The iconic Motorola RAZR flip-phone is to make a comeback, the Wall Street Journal reports-- specifically as a foldable device bearing a $1500 pricetag, with the launch arriving as early as February 2019.

The WSJ says very little on actual specifications of the device, such as screen size, internals or even form factor. The use of the RAZR name suggests Lenovo-owned Motorola will use the original form factor to perhaps create a super-long vertical folding screen, although it might also just copy Samsung and create a more typical folding device. What the WSJ does know is Lenovo plans to make 200000 units of the device, a perhaps optimistic approach for could ultimately prove to be little more than yet another exercise in overpriced nostalgia overpriced nostalgia.

Vivo suggests another solution to eliminated the dread front-facing camera notch-- the Nex Dual Display Edition has a second display right on the back, as paired with a rear-facing triple-camera setup.

The Nex Dual Display Edition is the followup to one of the more unusual smartphones of 2018, the Nex. It features the same curvy design, but removes the pop-up selfie camera for the aforementioned dual-display solution. As such, the three cameras on the back handle all photography tasks, and consist of a primary 12MP camera, a 2MP secondary module and a 3rd f/1.3 lens paired with a time of flight (TOF) 3D module.

How many cameras does a smartphone need? Two? Four? LG pushes the limit to the extreme in a patent describing a smartphone with no less than 16 camera lenses arranged to capture the best possible images.

Discovered by Dutch website LetsGoDigital, the patent titled 'Mobile terminal and control method for the mobile terminal' filed by LG a the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) on 20 November 2018. It describes a smartphone camera with 16 lenses set up in a matrix setup. The lenses are arranged at a certain curvature within the matrix, meaning different lenses can take a photo from different perspectives.