I use an LG G6 and like it better than Samsung.
Yeah this stinks. I’m very happy with my G8, and like to have as many options as possible, ignoring Samsung and the fruit phone.
Yeah this stinks. I’m very happy with my G8, and like to have as many options as possible, ignoring Samsung and the fruit phone.
I’ve had two LG phones and they were both duds. Battery life was pitiful.
Maybe LG can switch to the Covid Passport market.
Apparently South Korea is fine with their edict.
Put a tariff on them and make them HERE in the USA.
I’ve had an LG phone in the past and liked it.
Military electronics is always a decade or more behind commercial electronics*. There are reasons for this, lots of them. But my thought is, if LG went into military drone production, their drone could be the most sophisticated and the most ubiquitous on the market. Imagine an invading army suddenly faced with hundreds of thousands of tiny attacking drones. (You listening LG?)
* One reason is military electrons is usually integral to a manned system. And, as such, the military is paranoid about it failing. Thus they go conservative. In the case of drones you could design an automatic cutoff if they fail. This way if 10% of an attacking swarm fail, who cares?
Figures. Just bought a Phoenix 5 for the wife.
Very bad news. Too bad it wasn’t APPLE!.........................
Has everyone forgotten about the Windows Phone?
I got mine in 2012, and it finally died two weeks ago.
Rest in Peace, little buddy.
I’ve always liked LG phones better than Samsung.
LG Reference bump
Thanks.
That is, the microphone, camera, GPS, and/or cell tower communications could not be turned by software on if the user/owner turned off the physical switch for any of those items.
Built in support for encrypted email, and voice/audio, out of the box would be a plus.
In short, a non-spy phone ought to have a very large market, and would only grow.
Apparently the Samsung chaebol is too much for the LG chaebol.
What is a chaebol?
Its a vertically integrated conglomerate that spans multiple industries or sectors. There are internal forces with the chaebol that pressures industries, sectors, business units within the chaebol to do as much business as possible inside the chaebol and less of buying from or offering contracts to business units outside the chaebol. When the chaebol is depending too much on some type of business outside the chaebol, the chaebol will seek to expand into that type of business.
Translation - When it comes to smart phones, LG is less vertically integrated than Samsung and cannot achieve the internal cost advantages that Samsung can. But LG also made some product missteps and mistakes along the way, which helped it fail to grow its market share.
And there is no other chaebol in Korea with industry interests that would have any measurable synergy with the smartphone business sector, so LG was willing to look for a foreign buyer, but failed.
That sucks. They make a decent product. And their Classic Flip Phone is dirt cheap and runs AOSP Android, not the spyware-filled Google version of Android.
I had 2 LG phones. They were very good phones - one was obsoleted by 4G, the other I dropped and broke in a way that was not economical to repair. Got a decent deal on a Samsung and switched - have been happy with them also.
They needed Pfizer’s marketing department.