It has been a while since LG announced its exit from the smartphone market, joining other defunct phone brands like Nokia. Although, it still offered support for its existing lineup of devices. But now, the brand’s smartphones has finally reached the end of the line.

LG to Shut Down Smartphone Update Servers in 2025

The South Korean tech giant’s last flagship was the LG Wing, which debuted way back in October 2020. Following this, LG announced that it is pulling away from smartphones to focus on EVs in April 2021. The brand later sold all of its smartphone related patents to other smartphone OEMs like Oppo. While the mobile division shut down, support was still available for the latest gen LG devices. LG at least ensured update up to Android 12 on eligible smartphones.

But since then, there has not been any major update rolling out for any smartphone. There were still security patches that were promised for another three years. LG has announced that it is shutting down its smartphone update servers. Now, the company shared a warning a couple of weeks back. In its official forums post, LG shared appreciation for everyone who supported its mobile business and announced that it will close the mobile phone software upgrade (FOTA), update center, and LG Bridge service.

All of these services will go offline on 30th June 2025. This announcement likely doesn’t affect many users, but it marks the complete end of LG smartphones. You never know, certain LG devices might become collector’s pieces in a couple of years.

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LG earlier this week confirm the closure of its smartphone arm after several unsuccessful bids to revive the once bubbling business. One question that has often been asked is what happens to the existing users of LG phones in terms of software updates.

Well, LG has now released an official statement to that effect. The company disclosed that it is pledging to push up to three versions of Android updates for all its premium smartphones. The three updates will start counting from when the phone was released. Thus, a phone that has already received Android 10 and 11 updates will only be eligible for one more major update. Whereas phones like the LG Velvet, G-series, V-series, and Wing released recently may go up to Android 13.  The company also disclosed that some models released in 2020 like the LG Stylo and K series will get two OS updates.

LG in an earlier official statement disclosed that it was stepping away from the mobile phone business and will focus on other areas like electric vehicle components, connected devices, smart homes, robotics, artificial intelligence, and business-to-business solutions, as well as platforms and services.

The brand also hinted that it will clear out existing stock but expects to completely shut down the entire mobile business by July 31. Before that happens, LG says it will work closely with suppliers and business partners for a seamless winding down of the mobile phone division.

Going forward, LG plans to deploy its robust mobile expertise and mobile-related technologies like 6G in other businesses, and also in existing and future products.

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LG Electronics might be closing its mobile communications business instead of selling it. The news from a source close to the matter. Reportedly, the negotiations regarding the sale of the smartphone unit has failed.

According to a report from DongA Ilbo (Via Bloomberg), the South Korean tech giant’s plans on selling its mobile phone business has failed, with negotiations with Germany’s Volkswagen AG and Vietnam’s Vingroup JSC now being off the table. Earlier this year, the consumer electronics manufacturer’s CEO had stated that the company is considering all options for its loss making business. Since then, it has been reported that LG Electronics has been seeking the sale of the smartphone unit.

Previously, the company had apparently halted the development of its upcoming smartphone with a rollable display, back in February. Now, it is also being reported that the brand will also be shelving its plans to launch any new smartphones within the the first half of this year. In other words, it is effectively stopping any new devices from rolling out at the moment. Furthermore, the company may share its decision to the public and to its employees as soon as early April.

Notably, a recent Bluetooth SIG certification has given hope of the rollable smartphone’s launch, while a company spokesperson had also stated that the handset’s development has not been suspended. Unfortunately, this is still an unconfirmed report, so take it with a pinch of salt and stay tuned for more, as we will be providing updates when additional information is available regarding this matter.

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The Microsoft Your Phone app has become useful too for many Windows 10 users by allowing them to pair their Android devices with PCs. Unfortunately, the amount of compatible devices on the list is still limited so LG has rolled out its own Windows 10 app to pair your LG handset with your PC.

According to a Softpedia report, LG is launching the new Windows 10 app as its mobile phone isn’t on the compatible list for the Microsoft Your Phone app, which supports devices like Samsung flagship handset. In other words, the South Korean tech giant isn’t waiting for Microsoft to bring its devices in the compatibility list but and is launching its own service, which will allow users to sync their smartphone with Windows 10 that is already live in the Microsoft Store at the moment.

The new app is called Virtoo, which utilizes Bluetooth to pair your PC with your smartphone. This also enabled the PC to gain access to certain smartphone functionalities directly from the computer. As per official notes, “Virtoo by LG is a smartphone app for LG PC users. It allows a Bluetooth connection between a smartphone and a PC to enable users to use various smartphone functions on the PC. Use Virtoo by LG to enjoy a more comfortable computing environment.”

Keep in mind, however, that not every LG handset model will be supported and not all features will be available for everybody. Meaning, there will be some limitations despite the company launching its own dedicated app to sync Windows 10 devices. Although, the new app will allow users to send messages from their PCs, access to the media stored on the phone, make calls, and even all contacts and allow screen mirroring as well.

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LG has recently revealed its financial report for the Q4 of 2019. In the final quarter, the company saw a massive loss as its mobile division continues to deteriorate in the smartphone industry.

According to the report, the South Korean tech giant saw a loss of over $850 million in Q4 of 2019 as sales of smartphones continued to decline and show little sign of recovering in the near future. LG generated KRW 1.32 trillion in revenue between October and December 2019. The figures translate to roughly 1.12 billion US Dollars, which is a sizable amount, but still noticeably lower than its revenue of 1.41 billion US Dollars in Q4 of 2018.

Furthermore, the mobile division suffered huge setbacks in the final quarter as well, measuring about KRW 332.2 million. Meaning, about 280 million US Dollars was lost during this period of time, which is also higher than the 270 million US Dollars lost in the same quarter of 2018.

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Despite LG’s best efforts to reduce cost and operational expenditures, the company is still showing negative growth. Looking at the overall report for 2019, the electronics brand’s declining mobile division generated 5 billion US Dollars but experienced a large sum of 858.34 million during the same time. This also highlights LG further declining over 2018, where the company lost just 650 million US Dollars in the same quarter. From a multinational corporation’s point of view, the financial figures are terrible for any company.

However, a silver lining does present itself to the company. LG, similar to Samsung, hopes that the newer and faster bandwidth, 5G network, will help improve its sales figures for 2020. As of right now, the adoption of 5G is still low and confined to a handful of countries including, South Korea and China. The former is the home country for both LG and Samsung through which both seem to benefit the most. Notably, other brands like Xiaomi are also quickly catching up in these regions and LG stated that it is expecting “severe competition” in the mid range smartphone segment.

LG said that the decline in sales of its smartphone in Q4 of 2019 is due to its stagnant sales in the overseas market, especially in the mid-range segment of smartphones. Additionally, the company attributed the higher expenditure to clearing existing inventory and the launch of new products.

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LG is all set to launch its next-gen flagship smartphone — LG G8 ThinQ and while the renders leaked suggests that the device will come with the regular wide notch on top of the display, the company is slowing moving towards adopting the popular waterdrop notch design.

According to the latest patent filed by LG, the South Korea-based company is all set to make a move towards waterdrop notch that will provide a higher screen-to-body ratio. However, the said design was first filed by the company in April last year.

The patent application describes a smartphone with having a vertical dual-camera setup on the back and a rear-facing fingerprint scanner. Based on the design, it seems that the phone will look similar to the Essential Phone with a notch in the phone’s center.

Looking at the sketches, the phone retains the 3.5mm headphone jack at the bottom, which most smartphone manufacturers are ditching and there’s a SIM tray on top. The power button key is situated on the right side while the volume rocker keys are present on the left side.

Meanwhile, the company is gearing up to launch the LG G8 ThinQ and LG V50 ThinQ 5G smartphone next month at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. Along with that, we expect the company to launch a few more mid-range devices at MWC 2019.

Recently, it was reported that the LG G8 will come with “Sound on Display” technology in which instead of having a traditional speaker, the sound is produced by vibrating the display panel. The sound is produced by vibrations of the screen caused by ‘exciter’ which is positioned behind the screen. LG is already using this technology in its Crystal Sound OLED TVs.

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Under the hood, the phone is likely to be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 flagship chipset. The phone’s renders featuring a notched display and dual rear camera sensors surfaced online a few days ago but the company’s Head of Global Corporate Communication denied that claiming that the renders are correct but are not of G8.

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While for now, some smartphone manufacturer is trying to develop the Mini version from their flagship smartphone. And now LG is also doing the same thing and ready to unveiled their upcoming LG G3 Mini smartphone to the market.

Recently, there is the leaked information from Indian Company, name Zauba that LG is ready to release G3 Mini smartphone. This phone is also known as LGD722 that running with Android operating syste,.

The upcoming LG G3 will be packs with 4,5 inch screen sizewith 720p resolution, the phone will be running Android 4.4.2 KitKat operating system, powered by 1,2Ghz quad-core procesor and 8GB of internal storage.

According to rumor, the phone will be equipped with 5 megapixel main camera, while for now, some user is need more higher pixel in their smartphone camera but  for the Mini version, the 5 megapixel camera is enough.

LG G3 reguklar version has good in sales, the LG G3 sales is more rapidly than the LG G2, while LG G3 is 1,5 – 2 times higer than the current LG G2 sales. Quoted from ETNews reports, the new LG G3 9regular version) is sold for 25,000 unit a days and LG has successfully to sold 50,000 unit of LG G3 in two days.

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LG is now ready to release their new flagship smartphone, the phone is the LG G2 successor and the phone is called as LG G3. According to rumors, the Korean company is ready to release those smartphone on August but the recent rumor says that LG G3 might arrive sometime in late June or early July this year.

@Evleaks has been posted the leaked picture of those smartphone, according to leaked picture, the LG G3 will be has larger screen, the rear facing caemra with LED flash light. And there is navigation button below the rear camera. The phone is also has slimmer body.

According to @Evleaks, the large model of LG G3 smartphone will be sale in Japan market only, but the upcoming LG G3 variant will be available and ready to hit global market. So we have to wait untill LG officially released this phone.

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After launching the LG G2, is now the one of Korean company LG is rumored to unveiled LG G3, the upcoming flagship smartphone.

We don’t have detailed information about the phones, but the new rumor says that the upcoming LG G3 will be packs with eye sensor and finger print scanner. And now LG has already registered the LG G3 for their upcoming smartphone.

The LG G3 display will come with a 1440 x 2560 resolution that will be slightly larger than the LG G2. And the phone seems will packs with 5,5 inch screen size and has 16 megapixel camera.

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The new LG G Flex is not only offers a curved display. But this smartphone is also equipped with a self-healing feature on coating on the back cover, it can be recover the cover from the scartch.

To demonstrate the self-healing capability, the LG has also released a video on YouTube. The video shows how the LG G Flex can remove the scratch automaticly after the body get sracth.

Unfortunately , the LG does not explain the technology behind the self healing feature. In addition, LG also revealed that the self-healing capability is limited only minor damage , such as scratches as key chains or scratched by coin or nail.

This video compares the ability of self healing LG G Flex with other smartphones. On both phones, the LG also did a similar treatment, where they scratch the back of a smartphone with a special tool. And after that  they had to silence for a few minutes. The video shows the phone being scratched repeatedly and after about 2 minutes of the scratching stopped, you can see that the back of the phone has returned to normal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=liJYA5Bqy_s

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Information concerning the existence of a smartphone with a curved screen from LG, the G Flex is now is began to unfold. After there is a leaked picture of the phone, For a device that’s bound to only hit Korea and even that in limited quantities, the curved LG G Flex is sure enjoying a long, healthy run in the rumor mix.

According to the benchmark tests, the LG G Flex smartphone’s specs is revelaed. Among these are powered byquad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with a speed of 2.2 GHz clock-speed, Adreno 330 GPU, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory. In addition, this smartphone will come with 13 megapixel rear camera.

Also mentioned that the curved screen smartpone will come with a 6 inchs screen size. But do not expect that this smartphone will come with a high resolution. According to data from the benchmark tests, LG will embed a screen with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels on the smartphone. In addition, this smartphone will running Android Jelly Bean OS 4.2.2. And rumor says that this smarpthone will be officially introduced by LG in November.

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Here is the good news for the user who waiting the new gadget from LG. Because we got the new leaked picture of the new LG flagship smartphone, LG Optimus G2.

These pictures show more clearly the LG Optimus G2. As seen on the picture, the LG Optimus G2 will has very thin bezel on the phone and run the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating.

From the previous rumor, the LG Optimus G2 will powered by Snapdragon 800 and Adreno 330 GPU with 3 GB of RAM, and packs with 5.2-inch Full HD display, sports with 13 megapixel camera with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) technology.

The Global version of the LG Optimus G2 will only pack with 2GB of RAM, and the 3GB of RAM is only for LTE-Advanced version that only available in Korean market. According to rumors, the global version will be available on the market on August 2013, so let’s wait.

Here are the picture of LG Optimus G2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xRtCJmcw-6A

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Having officially announced two weeks ago, a trio of the latest LG Optimus L Series II reportedly now being exhibited in the Mobile World Congress 2013 held in Barcelona. The three models of LG Optimus L Series II is the latest LG Optimus L3 II, LG Optimus L5 II and LG Optimus L7 II.

Special LG Optimus L3 II, is the lowest-featured device between two models of LG Optimus L Series II for the other. LG Optimus L3 II has a 3.2-inch IPS touch screen with support for a resolution of 240 × 320 pixels.

As for the performance support system on it, this phone seems to have been entrusted to the reliability Single Core 1GHz processor and 512MB RAM. Coupled with support for 4GB of internal memory and can be expanded using MicroSD cards up to 32GB capacity is one of the best storage solutions it offers.

Although the LG Optimus L3 II is a low end device, but the phone has been fully supported by the power of the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean OS. In addition, some features of the LG Optimus L3 II also support the other which includes WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, microUSB port and a 1540mAh battery.

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While we are awaiting for the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013 event held in Barcelona next week, we got a feww picture of new LG Optimus lineup, thats the LG Optimus F7 and LG Optimus F5 which ready to show-off at MWC 2013 next week.

A video shortly after the company released on YouTube. Demonstrated by evleaks two smartphone, that’s LG Optimus F7 looks like Optimus G Pro announced on Monday’s “not very round version of (less-rounded); While the LG Optimus F5 to have the same rounded corners, if The image is true, it will have a slimmer frame.

But we don’t have more detailed specifications yet, but those smartphone should be introduced in the MWC 2013 next week.

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Three new Optimus series of LG re-appeared. The third family is the LG Optimus L3 II, LG Optimus L5 II and LG Optimus L7 II. All three are getting improved hardware significantly compared to its predecessor the same name, but without the “II”.

For LG Optimus L3 II, this phone has a 1GHz processor with IPS type screen while the screen size and resolution are the same as the previous version. But this time the new version is equipped with a 5MP camera, while the previous version only packed with a 3.2MP camera.

For LG Optimus L5 II, this phone has a 1GHz Cortex-A9 processor and PowerVR SGX531 GPU. With a 4 inch screen size of WVGA resolution, LG has equip this phone to run the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean operating system.

Then last but not least, there is the LG Optimus L7 II. This phone brings dual-core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz MSM8225 with Adreno 203 GPU support and 768MB RAM. With a 4.3 inch WVGA resolution screen, LG also embed 8 megapixel camera and Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean operating system. They all will be made alive with powerful 2460mAh battery.

Unfortunately, there are no leaks info on the price of these phones.

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LG has been released the LG Android smartphones, through LG Optimus G and Nexus 4 LG offers the better and perfect specs for those smartphones. Well now there is a trend in FULL HD screen for mobile device. LG would making their flagship smartphone with those technology.
Recently, we got the infomation that LG F240 is a product code that will use Quad Core 1.5 GHz processor Snapdragon S4 Pro and paired with Adreno 320 for Full screen HD specifications. (We found this information through benchmarking GLBenchmark appearing on the internet along with OS Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

So you can have many options to have FULL HD Android phones, including the HTC Droid DNA, Oppo Find 5, and Lenovo are making FULL HD Dual Sim Android. So let’s wait and the war begin.

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