BARCELONA—LG's MWC booth is a wonderland. The smartphone maker's MWC releases are pleasant surprises, from the modular LG G5 to the LG X Cam, LG X Screen, and to a lesser extent the G Stylus 2.

The X Cam and X Screen are this year's midrange LG models, and they're real standouts. They're both lightweight plastic phones, but the finishes have some internal sparkle to them that takes them away from the standard matte black. The X Screen unit we saw, especially, has a shiny black back that makes it look like a OnePlus 2 or a Sony Xperia Z5. Very nice.

Oddly, they're supposedly the exact same size—5.6 by 2.8 by 0.28 inches—but the Screen feels smaller. That's because its screen is smaller. It has a 4.9-inch, 720p display to make room for the little "second screen" panel at the top, which shows quick tools like a flashlight, notifications, app shortcuts, or a 'signature' message. There's a 13-megapixel camera on the back and an 8-megapixel camera on the front.

The X Cam's special feature is dual rear-facing cameras—one regular, one wide-angle, like on the G5. The regular camera is 13 megapixels and the wideangle one is 5 megapixels. By tapping a "wide-angle" button in the camera app, you zoom between the two modes; the effect is fun and compelling, as long as you're willing to put up with some fish-eye in the wide-angle mode.

Otherwise, it's a super-slim, relatively easy-to-hold midrange Android phone with a 5.2-inch, 1080p screen. It's 2.83 inches wide, so narrower than the Samsung Galaxy S7, and it comes in gray, pink, white, and gold; I saw the pink model, and it's pretty darn pink.

Unfortunately, both models have LG's new Android skin over Marshmallow, which kills the app drawer in the name of "simplicity." The skin takes up 5GB of the X Cam's 16GB storage, and 5.8GB of the X Screen's. Both phones have memory card slots.

These are two phones that feel much better in real life than they look on screen or spec sheets. I'm used to LG's successful midrange lineups, devices like the Leon, being pretty nondescript. But the X series are super-slim and light, which makes them appealing to hold, and they each have a real personality feature—one special thing which sets them apart.

I was less impressed in person with the G Stylus 2. It took me a minute to figure out why, but it was right in front of me: nowadays, a 5.7-inch, 720p display just looks dim and grainy. Yes, it's an inexpensive phablet, and it's also pretty light at 5.1 ounces. But the 258ppi display depressed me a little, especially after looking at the bright, tight little screens on the X series. The G Stylus 2 has 13-megapixel and 8-megapixel cameras, and a stylus that tightly tucks into a slot in the upper right-hand corner.

Like on the original G Stylo, the stylus isn't pressure-sensitive like the one on the Galaxy Note series. It's just a capacitive stylus. I drew on the screen in LG's notepad app with no lag, so LG has programmed stylus input well. But that screen couldn't bring me much past eh.

None of these three phones have been announced for the U.S., and the G Stylus 2 model was specifically dual-SIM, which is verboten at U.S. carriers. But given LG's excellent track record in our market, I think the X series will find happy homes here.

This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.