In context: Almost ii months after announcing its get out from the business organisation, LG has reportedly manufactured the visitor'south last-e'er phone. The Southward Korean behemothic was the third-largest handset maker in 2022, just the division had spent vi years losing money, totaling effectually $4.five billion, before existence consigned to history in April.

Co-ordinate to Asia Business Daily (via Engadget), LG continued manufacturing handsets following the closure announcement as it had to fulfill contracts with telecom companies. The publication writes that the Vietnamese mill where many of the business firm's phones were fabricated will be converted into a factory creating household appliances.

LG's go out ways that the LG V70 ThinQ, LG G10, LG Velvet 2, and LG Rollable will never see the light of day, though at that place were reports of the company selling a limited number of unreleased Velvet 2 Pro and LG Rollable handsets to employees in South korea.

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The skilful news for owners of its recent premium offerings released in 2022 or later, including the LG Velvet and LG Wing, is the promise of upwardly to three iterations of Android updates, while recent non-premium phones such as LG Stylo and K series will exist getting two Os updates. The company is also offering iv years of afterward-sales service from the date of manufacture.

It's sorry to see LG phones disappear—the LG G6 was once this writer's daily commuter. Different other firms, it was never afraid to innovate, not ever successfully, in an industry filled with companies fearful of the word. There was the modular G5, the dual-screen LG G8X, the flexible LG Grand Flex ii, and the futuristic LG Wing 5G, to proper name a few.

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