A couple of days right after dropping the bomb, LG is out with a tiny more details on what specifically takes place to your current LG smartphone, now that the enterprise is shutting down its business enterprise. LG has committed to 3 years of Android updates for all its premium smartphones at the moment in use. This is certainly topic to a couple of circumstances but pretty frankly, all this is a tiny bizarre considering the fact that LG phones have been seldom identified to get that lots of updates even when the enterprise was nonetheless in the business enterprise of generating them.
More particularly, all premium LG phones like Velvet, Wing and these below G- and V-series, will be eligible for “guaranteed” 3 Android OS updates from the year of acquire. Say for instance, the Velvet and Wing launched final year with Android 10, which suggests, each these phones must be receiving Android 11, 12 and 13 at some point of time. The Velvet is in the course of action of receiving Android 11 in some markets as we speak.
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LG says “certain” 2020 price range models such as LG Stylo and K-series will also acquire two OS updates. LG sells a couple of K-series phones in India, the most current one being the LG K42.
In all the instances, the usual asterisk applies, that is, “future updates will depend on Google’s distribution schedule as well as other factors such as device performance and compatibility.” But at least some clarity is far better than absolutely nothing at all.
Previously, LG had stated it will continue to provide service assistance and application updates to merchandise “for a period of time which will vary by region,” a statement which raised more queries than it answered.
LG will continue to manufacture phones “through the second quarter to meet contractual obligations to carriers and partners,” and provide service assistance and safety application updates to shoppers “for a period of time for certain devices.”
The complete closure of LG’s mobile business enterprise is anticipated to be completed by July 31.