- LG is finally closing the update server for its phone in June
- This will mark the last end of LG’s phone, a market that will leave it in 2021
- We have ranked our favorite LG phone for the last 25 years
Remember LG phone? Not long ago, Korean tech giants were one of the most exciting phone manufacturers around the surrounding LG chocolate ‘slider’ phones and American innovators such as Kunda-screen LG Wing.
But sadly, no one else – as is seen Android Authority, LG plans to shut down the update server for its phone on 30 June. At the practical level, this means that if you still own the LG phone (a gold star for your commitment, if so), you have exactly two months left to download a final Android update on it before the cord is cut.
Nevertheless, the news is certainly more symbolic than practical. LG confirmed that it has been four years now that after the 25 -year -old race of doing so, it will stop making smartphones.
In fact, LG was one of the first technical veterans to step into the phone space with Samsung and Sony in the 1990s when it took to Nokia and Motorola and became a big player in the ‘feature phone’ space.
So what were LG’s biggest phone hits, and whom we love the most? Here is our list – tell us what you feel is missing in the comments below.
7. LG G Flex (2013)
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The most human phone ever. This was LG’s slogan for surprisingly crazy LG G Flex – A handset that showed a ‘flexible’ performance and ‘self-healing’ back.
The device itself was also ‘flexible’. G Flex had a natural curvature, which LG said that it allows to sit more comfortably against your face, and keep the microphone closer to your mouth – which misses the Nokia 8110 ‘banana phone?
However, as I said in my review of the phone, “Don’t be very excited about its flexible abilities … you can’t really go about turning it.
“Place the LG G flakes down on a flat surface and the screen at its most curved point is still a few millimeters above the surface. But then the fun part comes. Apply a decent amount of pressure to the back of the G flake and you can take out the handset.”
And this response was received when I showed this flexible feat to people? “I met – without failure – a sea of ​​winning faces was seriously created about cracking and crunching sounds. It is sure that the handset flexes, a little, but never seems that it is enjoying the workout.”
Then the ‘self-healing’ was back, which was capable of modest bumps and knocking, but it was certainly not immune for one or two.
LG G Flex was not the best phone, and it was extremely expensive, but it did the best LG – something different, some unique, some wild. And that’s what I love.
By John McCan
6. LG Kun 990 Views (2007)
The very fact is that I refuse to throw this phone – 18 years after its release – shows the love I have. This phone has a 5MP camera, Xenon Flash, DVD (Ish) quality video recording, a manual zoom button – and A Touch screen.
For all the children, you do not know how exciting it was when you were used to tap only on the key. A keyboard that can move and become a movie screen? Wonderful! (Leave the fact that there was a very few video content to see really).
There was a stylus that you could engage with a little cord (although it was quickly annoying) and I am sure if I removed the phone now, the resistor touchscreen would wrongly guess the wall (where it puts pressure on the electric conduct in your fingers) wrongly guessing which part of the screen I wanted to rise.
It was rumored that this phone actually excluded the early iPhone, thanks to the high imagination, low price (and the fact that the Apple was not officially reporting the sale data …), and while this lead did not last long, it was completely qualified in my eyes.
By Gareth Bivis
5. LG Cookie (2008)
When LG Cookie launched in 2008, it took the youth from the storm. I know that, because I was one, and it first marked the phone which I could really call myself. In the handc set up, cookie was not all fantastic, and in fact, LG used it to target the entry-level touchscreen market by keeping the cost of the device as low as possible.
As a result of that scrimming, 3-inch, 240 x 400 pixel touchscreen operated by an Arm9e CPU with a watch rate of 175 MHz. It also had a 3.15MP camera capable of capturing the video on 12 frames/s, and there was no flash option.
Very impressive, right? No, not really, but a combination of super cool look (yes, I had a white version) and a clean -clicker hidden in the phone’s body meant that LG Cookie, for me, had a height of style And Innovation during my early years.
By Axel Metz
4. LG NV2 (2008)
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This could not be my first phone, but the enV2 was definitely one of the first – and one I still have a closet.
The LG Env2 was not the original chlamshell, but it had a large number of pads with a small screen on the front and had the ability to openly bend for a large screen (well, larger by non-smartphone standards). It was a real Blackberry rival with speakers on both sides and close to full -size Quinar keyboard.
LG ENV2 offered some smartphone-esk, Blackberry-Esk Flair without smart, and was quite fun to use it and to serve me well, even with a removable battery on the back. It also has a good camera, although not with shots, which I want to share now. But I remember that it was very good to type on the inside keys and enjoyed answering the text messages on it.
Since, I reviewed many other LG phones. In my early blogging days, I remember chatting on Mr. Mobile – aka Michael Fisher – LG G3 Day. But LG Env2 also offered some mini mobile games in durable, no-smart package.
By Jacob Crol
3. LG Wing (2020)
LG Wing Any other smartphone was considered as opposed to which the world ever saw. This was LG’s ‘first device in’Explorer‘Series of equipment, which are a series of products, which are to detect unconventional forms-like LG rollable.
The LG Wing broke every rule of the textbook with a large and heavy design, with a lot of running parts, and at the premium price point for middle-ranging glasses. Although it was not really the best phone for the price, it was one of the most pleasant devices I had ever held hands.
This was just a cool party trick to reveal another display with one swipe, probably the most polarized design of its time. In particular, even for an first-gene product with an unfamiliar form factor, it was surprisingly not badWith a good number of adapted features and third -party apps to use dual screen approach.
Wing LG’s smartphone is a fitting Swansong for travel, which strengthens its place in history books as one of the most new brands of this place, who is unaware of using and going against norms; The smartphone reminds how disabled in the market.
By Akash Jhaveri
2. Google Nexus 5 (2013)
The 2013 smartphone had a big year for LG in the world. With its G2 flagship and its first Bandy phone, it was invited to create a next repetition of Google’s Nexus Line of smartphone.
Nexus was a project from Google that was introduced in Android phone manufacturers to designed hardware to show what the software can do in its pure form. The Nexus 5 was one of the best handsets in the series, and a large part of it is below for the effect of LG.
Nexus 5 had a lot of similarities with LG G2 which we have mentioned below (spiler alert), but it used Android software in the way that Google intended. It also felt smooth compared to LG G2, and also had an affordable price.
As one of the first smartphones I used to use as a technology journalist, I began to see what google was targeting with my Nexus line on Nexus 5. I also saw that LG was capable in one of the best time period for LG smartphones, and I would always have a hobby for this specific phone because of this.
By James Peckham
1. LG G2 (2013)
There have been some smartphones in a few years, with a mixture of almost excellent features, hardware, and values, and in some areas the LG G2 (or optimus G2 (or optimus G2, because the company was unnecessarily jammed an additional word in the title).
It was just a great handset. There was a 5.2 inch screen Huge At that time, and the 13MP camera from there was perfect in the race for the best race, which had luxurious features and some top snaps were possible. Shiny, round plastic shell felt strong in hand, and the overall interface was working with clever small twicks to improve the original Android experience.
But the main star was the placement of the rear button – a power key that was above and below the volume button Behind the phone!
The idea was that it would fit a natural, ergonomic fit in the hand, looking at its ‘huge’ shape, and so you would be less likely to leave it. Some critics found that it was very difficult to resume the brain to look for the unlock key there, but they were not using it for a long time. I still yearn for this, and keep wondering why the phone brands are not using the back of the phone for some kind of touch interface.
Of course, I am sure that the announcements of time are missing me with a Rosie Hue – Android overlay was often back, then, Fidli camera settings were probably irritable, and the buttons probably fell or something else. But I remember that this phone is with true hobbies – for a time, it seemed that the success of this phone was going to keep LG in the top table of the smartphone for years to come, but sadly it was never physical.
By Gareth Bivis
