- LG is finally closing update servers for their phones in June
- This will mark the final end of LG phones, a market that resigned in 2021
- We have classified our favorite LG phones of the last 25 years.
Do you remember LG phones? Not long ago, the Giant of Korean technology was one of the most exciting phone manufacturers, dazzling US innovators such as the LG Chocolate ‘Slider’ phone and the LG wing with rotating screen.
But unfortunately, no more: as Android Authority saw it, LG finally plans to close the update servers for their phones on June 30. On a practical level, this means that if you still have an LG phone (a golden star for your commitment, if so), you have exactly two months left to download a final Android update before the cable is cut.
However, the news is possibly more symbolic than practical. Four years have passed since LG confirmed that he would stop making smartphones, after an impressive 25 -year streak of doing so.
In fact, LG was one of the first technological giants to enter the telephone space in the 1990s, along with Samsung and Sony, when he faced Nokia and Motorola and became a great player in the space of ‘Telephones with functions’.
So, what were exactly the largest telephone successes of LG, and those that we remember most to those we remember most? Here is our list: let us know which ones you think are missing in the comments below.
7. LG G FLEX (2013)
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The most human phone in history. That was LG’s slogan for the wonderfully crazy LG G FLEX – A telephone that had a ‘flexible’ screen and a ‘self -acting’.
The device itself was also ‘flexible’. The G Flex had a natural curvature, which LG said it allowed him to sit more comfortably against his face and place the microphone closer to his mouth, who remembers the telephone of banana Nokia 8110 ‘?
However, as I said in my phone review, “don’t get too excited about your flexible skills … you can’t really bend it.
“Place the LG G flex face down on a flat surface and, at its most curved point, the screen is still just a few millimeters on the surface. But then the fun part comes. Apply a decent amount of pressure in the back of the G flex and can flatten the headset.”
And the reaction he had when I showed people this flexible feat? “I found myself, without fail, a sea of acceleration faces, since the G Flex seriously became with respect to crispy and crispy sounds. Surely the phone flexes, a little, but it never seems that it is enjoying training.”
Then there was the back of ‘autocuration’, which was able to absorb small blows and blows, but it was certainly not immune to a scratch or two.
The LG G Flex was not the best phone, and it was extremely expensive, but did what LG did better: something different, something unique, something wild. And that’s what I love.
By John McCann
6. LG KU990 Viewty (2007)
The very fact that I refuse to throw this phone, 18 years after its launch, shows the love I have for it. This phone had a 5MP camera, Flash Xenon, DVD quality video recording (ISH), a manual zoom button and a touch screen.
For all children, you don’t know how exciting it was to use when you had only accustomed you to touch the keys. A keyboard that could move and become a movie screen? Amazing! (Jumping beyond the fact that there was very little video content to see).
There was an optical pencil that could unite with a little cable (although that quickly became annoying) and I am sure that if I fired the phone now, the resistive touch screen would lead me through the wall (where it detects the pressure on the view of the electrical behavior on its fingers) inacuratively guessing what part of the screen I wanted to produce.
It was rumored that this phone really sold the initial iPhone, thanks to the highest specification, the lowest price (and the fact that Apple did not officially report the sales figures …), and although that advantage did not last long, I was completely deserved in my eyes.
By Gareth Beavis
5th LG Cookie (2008)
When the LG cookie was launched in 2008, it took young people assault. I know that, because I was one, and marked the first phone I could call mine. In retrospect, the cookie was not so spectacular and, in fact, LG used it to go to the input level touch screen market maintaining the cost of the device as low as possible.
That disorder resulted in a 3 -inch touch screen and 240 x 400 pixels fed by a CPU ARM9E with a 175 MHz watch speed. It also had a 3.15MP camera capable of capturing videos at 12 boxes/s, and without flash option.
Quite impressive, right? No, not really, but the combination of a super great appearance (yes, had the white version) and a small pencil hidden in the body of the phone meant that the LG cookie was, for me, the height of style and Innovation during my training years.
By Axel Metz
4. LG ENV2 (2008)
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It may not have been my first phone, but env2 was definitely one of the first, and one that I still have in a closet somewhere.
The LG Env2 was not the original clamshell, but it had a large number pad with a small screen on the front and the ability to fold on a larger screen (well, large for the standards that are not smartphone). With speakers on each side and a full -size Qwerty keyboard, he was a true rival of Blackberry.
The LG Env2 offered a touch to the Blackberry style, in the style of Blackberry without intelligence, and was quite fun to use and served me well, even with a removable battery on the back. It also has a decent camera, although not with shots that I would like to share now. But I remember being quite good writing the interior keys and I had a lot of fun responding to text messages.
In later years, I checked several other LG phones. In my first days of blogs, I remember having chatted with Mr. Mobile, aka Michael Fisher, on LG G3. But the LG Env2 offered many features, even some mini mobile games, in a lasting and not so intelligent package.
By Jacob Krol
3. LG Ala (2020)
He LG wing It was supposed to be different from any other smartphone that the world has seen. It was the first device in LG ‘Explorer‘Series of devices, which would have been a series of products aimed at exploring unconventional factors, such as the Rollable LG.
The LG wing broke all the rules of the textbook, with a large and bulky design, too many mobile pieces and a premium price for medium range specifications. While it was not really the best phone for the price, it was one of the most pleasant devices I put in my hands.
It was a great party trick to reveal the second screen with just one blow, in what was probably the most polarizing design of its time. In particular, even for a first generation product with a factor in an unknown way, it was surprisingly Not badwith a decent number of features and applications of third parties optimized to make use of the double screen approach.
The wing is a suitable turn for the LG smart trip, consolidating its place in history books as one of the most innovative brands in this space, without fear of experimenting and going against the standards; While serve as a relentless reminder, it can be the smartphone market.
By Aakash Jhaveri
2. Google Nexus 5 (2013)
2013 was a great year for LG in the world of smartphones. Together with his G2 flagship and his first flexible phone, he was invited to make the next iteration of the Nexus of Google smartphones.
Nexus was a Google project that brought Android phone manufacturers to make hardware designed to show what the software can do in its purest form. The Nexus 5 was one of the best phones in the series, and a large part of that is due to the impact of LG.
The Nexus 5 had many similarities with the LG G2 that we have mentioned below (spoiler alert), but this used the Android software in a way that Google intended. He felt even more elegant than the G2 LG, and also had an affordable price.
As one of the first smartphones that I used as a technology journalist, I began to see what Google aimed with his Nexus line in the Nexus 5. I also saw what LG was capable of one of the best periods of time for LG smartphones, and I will always have the affection on this specific phone because of that.
By James Peckham
1. LG G2 (2013)
Over the years, there have been some smartphones that almost exquisitely have the combination of characteristics, hardware and correct price, and the LG G2 (or Optimus G2 in some regions, since the company inexplicably followed by clicking an extra clumsy word in the title) was only that.
This was just a great phone. A 5.2 -inch screen was enormous At that time, and the 13MP camera was in the race for the best, with a lot of excellent characteristics to adjust and some superior snapshots are possible. The bright and rounded plastic peel felt robust in his hand, and the general interface was full of small intelligent adjustments to improve the basic Android experience.
But the main star was the placement of the rear buttons: a power key that was flanked up and down by the volume buttons On the back of the phone!
The idea was that this would be more a natural and ergonomic adjustment in the hand, given its ‘huge’ size and, therefore, it is less likely to release it. Some reviewers discovered that it was too difficult to reprogram the brain to look for the unlock key there, but they were not using it for enough time. Sometimes I still yearn for it now, and I still wondering why telephone marks are not using the back of the phone for some type of touch interface.
Of course, I am quite sure that the annals of time are reminding me of this phone with a pink tone: Android overlaps were often in Buggy at that time, the complicated camera configuration probably bothers and the buttons probably fell or something. But I remember this phone with real love: for a while, it seemed that the success of this phone was going to keep LG at the upper table of the world of smartphones in the coming years, but unfortunately, that never materialized.
By Gareth Beavis
