LG doomed its smartphone business last year and is currently focusing on other tech segments in the market. However, the company seems to still offer OS upgrades to some of its old smartphones. The LG Velvet that was released back in 2020 is now getting the latest Android 12 OS update.

It is worth noting that the LG Velvet was originally launched with the Android 10 OS out of the box. Now that it is getting the latest Android 12 OS, it seems to bring a lot of new features to the device. Reportedly, the models in Korea are getting the new update, and the update appears to be for the Velvet 5G.

If you are an LG Velvet owner, you should have received the update notification. If not, you can update it by heading to Settings > Software update.

The Velvet smartphone was one of LG’s premium phones in the market. The smartphone received the Android 11 update last year in February, and the Android 12 update has timely appeared on the device. It appears that LG, despite quitting the phone line, has maintained its software update promise, at least for the premium phones like Velvets in the home market.

However, this could be the last update for the LG Velvet, since it’s rare to see any LG phone getting a third OS update, especially now.

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LG has released its Android 11 rollout scheduled for its users in Europe. Currently, it is testing the software upgrade for smartphones such as LG VELVET 5G, VELVET 4G, LG G8X, LG G8S, LG Wing, LG K52, and LG K42.

The LG VELVET 5G is slated to receive the Android 11 upgrade in April. The LG G8X is the other phone from the brand that is expected to receive the software update in Q2.

In Q3, the South Korean company will be offering the Android 11 OS update to LG VELVET 4G and LG G8S. The LG Wing, LG K52, and LG K42 are slated to get the update in the last quarter of the year.

LG has been quite slow in rolling out the Android 11 upgrade as it compared to other phone brands. The company began testing the Android 11 beta edition in December and it rolled out the update for LG VELVET 5G users in South Korea in January.

The LG V60 ThinQ 5G became the first phone outside the home market to receive the update. It was treated with the latest Android version in the previous month. LG is yet to confirm the Android 11 upgrade schedule for other markets.

In related news, LG is reportedly working on a smartphone with a rollable screen. The device is speculated to arrive in the market with the LG Rollable moniker. It was reported by a South Korean publication that the company has stalled the product. However, The Verge recently reported that the company denied putting the LG Rollable on hold. Apart from this, in January LG refuted rumors that claimed that it was planning to quit the smartphone business.

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Last year, LG did not release any flagship smartphone. Instead, it launched a premium mid-range smartphone called LG Velvet 5G. This handset debuted with Android 10 with Velvet UI on top of it. Now, this phone has started receiving its first major update in the form of Android 11.

Google released Android 11 stable in September 2020. Since then, OEMs have been running beta programs and also rolling out stable builds to their respective eligible devices. But the update rollout only sped up in December when Samsung began to seed the builds.

On the other hand, LG did not release many phones last year. In fact, the South Korean electronics giant may exit the smartphone business in 2021. But still, it is slow in delivering the latest Android update.

According to PiunikaWeb, the Android 11 update is available for LG Velvet 5G only now even though it is the company’s main smartphone of 2020. Above all, the update is currently only live in the firm’s home country.

The latest system update for LG Velvet 5G is called LG UX 10. It is based on Android 11 with Velvet UI on top of it. This update weighs 2251.64MB in size for the South Korean variant of the device.

Right now, it is being rolled out in batches and should reach other regional variants in the coming weeks. That said, the availability of this update is a mystery for the 4G and the carrier variants of the LG Velvet.

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LG announced the LG Velvet 5G smartphone with an attractive design in May. Fresh information shared by the tipster Mukul Sharma reveals that LG may soon the LG Velvet smartphone in India.

The leakster claimed that the LG Velvet will go official in India this month. He even mentioned that the phone may go official on Oct. 4. He added that the Oct. 4 unveiling could be an internal launch for the LG employees. The South Korean company may soon hold a public launch at some point this month.

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LG Velvet 5G specifications and features

The LG Velvet 5G has a 6.8-inch P-OLED panel that offers a Full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2460 pixels. It boots to LG UX 9 based Android 10 OS. The Snapdragon 765G chipset is the driving force of the smartphone. The phone comes with 6 GB / 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage. The device has a microSD card slot for additional storage.

The LG Velvet 5G has a 16-megapixel camera on the front and it has a triple camera system that includes a 48-megapixel main lens, an 8-megapixel ultrawide shooter, and a 5-megapixel depth sensor on its back. The Velvet 5G has other specs such as an under-display fingerprint scanner, a 4,300mAh battery with 25W fast charging support, and stereo speakers.

In July, LG announced the LG Velvet with LTE support. The only noticeable differences that can be found on the LTE model are the inclusion of the Snapdragon 845 chipset and 15W charging.

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Recently, LG announced the Velvet 5G smartphone for T-mobile in the US. Recall that the LG Velvet 5G was first unveiled packing a Dimensity 800 processor. But the spectacular thing about the US version is that it came with a Dimensity 1000C chip.

T-Mobile’s Velvet 5G happens to be the first smartphone that’ll be powered by the new MediaTek chipset. The phone is also the first model to pack a Dimensity chipset launched outside of China.

The Dimensity 1000C is the latest chip in the flagship 1000-series. The chip is manufactured using a 7nm process node and features four Arm-Cortex-A77 CPU cores and four power-efficient Arm Cortex-A55 cores operating up to 2GHz, with a large, low-latency communal cache that improves performance and power-efficiency even further. The chip bundles the Mali-G57 GPU which gives it a 25% performance boost compared to the Dimensity 800.

The Velvet 5G manages a single-core score of 601 on GeekBench. On the multi-core test, it scored a total of 2365. When compared to the Dimensiy 800-powered Honor X10 Max GeekBench result, the Velvet 5G achieves up to 11% increase in single-core performance. The multi-core performance also increased by up to 8%.

We can’t say if LG will release the phone in other markets but the model will go on sale tomorrow. It carries a decent price tag of $588.

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LG‘s latest premium smartphone, the LG Velvet 5G was first unveiled in South Korea around the early part of May 2020 powered by a Snapdragon 765G chipset. The company has also launched the Velvet 5G in Europe and ore recently in the U.S. Just recently, a Snapdragon 845-powered Velvet was also launched in Europe.

There is an indication that the Korean tech giant may be planning to release a Velvet model with a different chipset from these two. A Velvet model has been spotted on Google Play Console. The report shows that the device is powered by a MediaTek MT6883 chipset which is the Dimensity 800.

MediaTek’s Dimensity 800 processor is a 7nm octa-core processor that was launched earlier this year. The chipset utilises four Cortex A76 cores clocking at 2.0GHz and four Cortex A55 cores working at 2.0GHz. For graphics, it is equipped with Mali-G77MC4 and also comes with its own HyperEngine gaming technology for an enhanced gaming experience. The processor also packs a 5G modem which means this version will also support 5G connectivity.

The Google Play Console listing also shows the processor is paired with 6GB of RAM. This is another interesting aspect as the earlier model came with a sole 8GB RAM option. The phone will run on Android 10 OS out of the box.

We expect this model to retain the design and other specs of the Qualcomm variants. This includes a 6.9-inch OLED display with a resolution of 2460 x 1080 pixel and 20.5:9 aspect ratio, a waterdrop notch that is home to a 16MP camera. The screen also supports stylus (Wacom) input with 4096 pressure levels, however, it is a standard 60Hz panel.

At the rear, the phone sports a pretty nice triple rear camera design that mimics a falling raindrop. The camera setup includes a 48MP primary camera, an 8MP ultra-wide-angle camera, and a 5MP depth sensor.

We expect the Dimensity 800 version to come with cheaper pricing than the Snapdragon 765G model which starts at €650 for the sole 8GB RAM version. Moreso, the lesser 6GB RAM which it is listed to have will also bring down the price further. Let us know what you think about a MediaTek-powered version of the Velvet in the comments. Excited or not?

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LG‘s latest premium smartphone, the LG Velvet was first unveiled in South Korea around the early part of May 2020. The company has now launched the Velvet 5G in Europe. The smartphone is already up for pre-order on LG’s official online store in Italy. Also. it is expected to be available in Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Spain.

The Velvet 5G carries a retail price of  €650 but what obviously stands out is loads of goodies worth €400 available to those who pre-order the phone. Those who pre-order the phone before the end of the month will get the LG Dual Screen accessory, LG Tone Free TWS earbuds and a protective cover for the phone.

The Velvet 5G features a 6.9-inch OLED display with a resolution of 2460 x 1080 pixel and 20.5:9 aspect ratio. The display utilises a waterdrop notch that is home to a 16MP camera. Powering the phone is the Snapdragon 765G mobile platform which brings 5G support with its built-in modem. There is 8GB of RAM and 128GB of UFS 2.1 storage that can be expanded to up to an extra 2TB via the MicroSD card slot.

At the rear, the phone sports a pretty nice triple rear camera design that mimics a falling raindrop. The camera setup includes a 48MP primary camera, an 8MP ultra-wide-angle camera, and a 5MP depth sensor.

The smartphone will be launching soon in North and South America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. However, LG might launch the rumoured 4G version in some of the regions.

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