This Sunday marks the 5-year anniversary of LG formally exiting the smartphone enterprise. That wasn’t fairly the tip of the story – the corporate wouldn’t cease making telephones till the tip of Might 2021. Nonetheless, on April 5, 2021, the corporate formally confirmed that its board of administrators had authorized the choice to shift focus away from telephones.
LG bought off its remaining telephone stock with a promise to place out software program updates for its ultimate fashions. And it did – the LG Wing acquired Android 13 in April 2023 (it initially launched with Android 10). On the identical time, the corporate introduced a brand new model id.
The LG Wing was LG’s final main smartphone
The LG Wing is form of the explanation we miss LG a lot. Not the telephone itself – as cool because the twisty design was, it wasn’t notably sensible – however we might at all times depend on LG to be daring and take a look at one thing new.
A few of LG’s most memorable telephones
In order for you a visit down reminiscence lane, we compiled an inventory of LG’s best hits in an article 5 years in the past. There are extra articles overlaying LG’s greatest telephones earlier than and after Android, the primary telephone with a capacitive touchscreen, the corporate’s preliminary ventures into dual-camera and dual-screen telephones and extra.
LG’s unreleased rollable telephone
LG’s exit got here at a nasty time – the financial system was in unhealthy form in 2021, however that is not what we imply. LG give up simply as foldable telephone know-how was beginning to take off. What would an LG foldable seem like with 2026 tech? Might the corporate have made rollable telephones work? We’ll by no means know.
Goodbye, LG, and thanks for all of the fish!
