It’s definitely not a good day for the LG smartphone fans and the company itself. It finally announced that it is exiting the smartphone business worldwide by July 31. However, it said that it will continue to provide software updates for the older ones and as spotted by @Kuma_Sleepy, it might just include the upcoming Android 12 too.

As spotted by the Twitter user(Via XDADevelopers), LG has detailed on what would happen to the software updates after the shutdown of the smartphone business. On a FAQ support page, it says that it will continue to roll out the Android 11 update as intended.

If you recall, the company shared a rollout plan for Europe recently. The list of devices getting it include LG Velvet 5G, LG G8X, LG G8S, LG Wing, and more. Among these, it has already rolled out the stable Android 11 update to V60 ThinQ, Velvet 5G devices.

Moving on, on the support page, the South Korean giant says that it will also push Android 12 OS for select models.

Now, it hasn’t really mentioned the list of devices on the page and the info on it shouldn’t come out at least until Google’s official announcement of Android 12. Speaking of which, Google has already released Developer Preview of Android 12 and the stable version could be coming this fall(could be September).

Besides, LG also puts out a disclaimer that the upgrade schedule, i.,e the timeline may vary by country and changes might occur to this policy in the future. This suggests that if the company hits a major roadblock in the development, it may also bring down the shutters on the entire rollout plan.

In the announcement of its exit from the Smartphone business, LG said that it will move forward and focus on areas like electric vehicle components, smart homes, robotics, AI, and others.

Let’s just hope that the company finds invests time in the software updates and delivers them as planned.

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LG has finally revealed the Android 10 update roadmap for its smartphones in 2020. While the brand has rolled out stable Android 10 updates to three of its smartphones so far, the roadmap reveals that it will update nine of its recent models with the new Android version in 2020. This includes the European LG V50 ThinQ 5G model that was announced in the second half of 2019.

LG Italia officially announced the following timeline for the Android 10 update.

• Feb 2020 – LG V50 ThinQ (Europe)
• Q2 2020 – LG G8X
• Q3 2020 – LG G7, LG G8S, LG V40
• Q4 2020 – LG K50S, LG K40S, LG K50, LG Q60

The flagship V50 ThinQ will be the first one to receive the update, in February 2020. This will be followed by the dual-screen G8X. The LG G7 will get the update sometime in Q3 2020 while the K50 and K40 models will be the last ones to receive the update, by the end of the year.

While this timeline comes from LG’s Italian arm, it likely that the international editions of the above-mentioned models should receive the update around the same time.

The G8 ThinQ was one of the first LG models to get the Android 10 update back in November 2019. This was followed by the rollout of the new version to the LG G7 One (Android One) model in December. Finally, around a week back, LG started rolling out Android 10 to the LG V50 ThinQ 5G model in South Korea.

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(Source | Via1, Via2)

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