Android loses a huge innovator as LG quits making phones - driverriong1988

One of the biggest innovators in Android is bowing impermissible. On Monday morning, LG discovered that IT is exiting the telephone set business to focus along other "growth areas" like smart home devices, robotics, and electric automobile vehicles.

Existing phones will stay available until the stock is sold finished, and the company says "LG will provide table service support and computer software updates for customers of active airborne products for a period of time which will vary by region." Don't expect to see that nifty rollable phone that LG showed off a CES, though. And an OS update to Android 12 in the fall probably isn't in the cards either, since many of LG's phones haven't gotten Android 11 yet.

The shutdown comes as nobelium surprise—LG's headphone segmentation posted monumental losings over the last respective years, and rumors of its demise have been whirling for months—but IT's still a damned ignominy. LG delivered consistently favourable (if not rather great) flagship phones in recent years, on with some affordable handsets that struck blows against phones that be hundreds more. But the company's lasting bequest may be its ne'er-close push for innovative features.

Watcher the aforementioned rollable screen concept, or the multiple screens on the LG V60 ThinQ 5G, or the wildly standard (and sadly short-lived) LG G5. But as the (de)motivational poster with a out to fork notoriously declares, "unique" doesn't always mean useful. We said the LG V8's gesture-settled "gimmicks are clean as well much to bear," and called the swiveling secondary display connected last twelvemonth's LG Wing every bit "a radical vociferation for aid."

"The Offstage seems like minuscule to a higher degree a desperate attempt by LG to profit back some of the attending it's lost over the days and perhaps it'll shape," we said. "But it's voiceless to envisage that IT's going to transfer into relevance."

It did not.

LG swung for the fences as often as whatever Android maker—but aiming for lofty rewards comes with a lot of risks too. The company never managed to land a rightful mainstream off, and in a world where most people choose for the undeviating nature of Orchard apple tree, Samsung, or Xiaomi phones, LG is finally striking out. The company expects to wind down its mobile business by July 31.