I had LG G8 thinq and it made me get an iphone after it. My previous 2 phones were pure android motorolla phones. G8 thingq one was very bloated, i had to drag an app to the screen before i can bring it up. I cannot see list of apps and just run it. I have samsung tablet the ui seems to be ok, not too much bloat.
LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
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Re: LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
#632I can only think of a few reasons that LG couldn't make it, and none of them are enough to sink a brand: * Lack of updates * Occasionally non-flagship hardware * That Nexus issue many years ago Their UI is better than Samsung. They're less intrusive than samsung. Their flagships are usually pretty good and come at good discounts soon after release. I have an S21 now, and the number of bloatware samsung apps has me wa…
> I'll miss LG a bit, it isn't as if we need fewer competitors in the Android space. It's Chinese brands, Samsung, and Google now pretty much, no?
Does this means that Motorola is now considered a fully Chinese brand?
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#633Earlier quoted context omitted.
The amount of work & installs you have to do for all that is laughable though.. assuming you can get a jailbroken iPhone.. the terminal app is easy to install.. small install & full on posix compliant terminal is right there w/ a more normal pkg manager to boot. I dunno shortcuts & a jailbroken iPhone is equally powerful & there’s far less tinkering involved imo. But I’m sure you’ve not used an iPhone enough to reali…
> assuming you can get a jailbroken iPhone This is a massive assumption.
Well like I said, assuming lol. But generally speaking if I am on the terminal of iOS vs the terminal on Android I feel more confident that I can bring in whatever packages I want as it was really designed to be a full desktop class citizen underneath it all. Android in contrast is extremely locked down in other ways that simply require you to use abstraction layers to run pretty much anything.
To me it's the difference between installing a full linux OS on a chromebook vs running it in chroot (crouton) or google's new virtualized method. They both have their trade offs while running a full linux OS pretty much has 0 trade offs. That's all that I was getting at. Of course there are pros to having a more locked down model at the expense of performance or being able to run something directly on metal at times. iOS is a strange combination of either being insanely secure or not so much, but in either case the raw performance and stability is almost always there in comparison.
Re: LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
#634I can only think of a few reasons that LG couldn't make it, and none of them are enough to sink a brand: * Lack of updates * Occasionally non-flagship hardware * That Nexus issue many years ago Their UI is better than Samsung. They're less intrusive than samsung. Their flagships are usually pretty good and come at good discounts soon after release. I have an S21 now, and the number of bloatware samsung apps has me wa…
> I'll miss LG a bit, it isn't as if we need fewer competitors in the Android space. It's Chinese brands, Samsung, and Google now pretty much, no? Does this means that Motorola is now considered a fully Chinese brand?
Of course. Just like Alcatel isn't french anymore, but a brand of TCL China...
Re: LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
#635I can only think of a few reasons that LG couldn't make it, and none of them are enough to sink a brand: * Lack of updates * Occasionally non-flagship hardware * That Nexus issue many years ago Their UI is better than Samsung. They're less intrusive than samsung. Their flagships are usually pretty good and come at good discounts soon after release. I have an S21 now, and the number of bloatware samsung apps has me wa…
The Samsung boatware is outrageous, but LG's was also pretty bad. The reason I got an LG, which I've been mostly happy with, is that they offered an Android One certified model (the LG G7 One) that came with nearly stock Android. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One
Sadly, the Android One program looks to be nearly dead. G7 One owner, don’t want a larger phone, so looks like the Pixel line is the only remaining option for my next phone.
Re: LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
#636I can only think of a few reasons that LG couldn't make it, and none of them are enough to sink a brand: * Lack of updates * Occasionally non-flagship hardware * That Nexus issue many years ago Their UI is better than Samsung. They're less intrusive than samsung. Their flagships are usually pretty good and come at good discounts soon after release. I have an S21 now, and the number of bloatware samsung apps has me wa…
> Their UI is better than Samsung. Is there any UI that is *worse* than samsung? They have ads in the menus now. And their UI layer adds significant touch latency.
Oppo is much, much worse than Samsung ui.
Re: LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
#637The mobile phone ecosystem is sick, and I don't see it getting better. The fact that there is not a third choice is maddening. Even in the worst parts of the Microsoft era we had Apple as the underdog. Apple products had issues, but Apple die-hards at least could rest easy knowing that they were buying into a company who stood for something. In the mobile space the underdog is Google; a company who sees dealing with…
How much is Google still investing in Android? The Android ecosystem feels stagnant since at least 2 years. It seems Google is content with Apple taking most of the hardware profits and them taking the ad dollars. I wonder if this will backfire soon. Wasn't LG the OEM for some of their Pixels? Who is replacing them? What about Apple's mobile processors outclassing Android?
> I wonder if this will backfire soon. Wasn't LG the OEM for some of their Pixels? Who is replacing them?
Google makes their own phones now with the part of HTC they bought.
Re: LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
#638Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Samsung boatware is outrageous, but LG's was also pretty bad. The reason I got an LG, which I've been mostly happy with, is that they offered an Android One certified model (the LG G7 One) that came with nearly stock Android. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One
Sadly, the Android One program looks to be nearly dead. G7 One owner, don’t want a larger phone, so looks like the Pixel line is the only remaining option for my next phone.
Yes, this is my exact situation too, and if I want a headphone jack then I'm stuck with the Pixel 4a which has only 128GB of storage and other deficiencies :(
Re: LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
#639Very sad. I found the perfect smartphone for me - the V20. It almost feels like a smartphone that happened by accident and will never return in its glorious form again. Dont know what else to use if it dies. Already have a spare Screen and its 4th Battery ready to be used. The second screen is just the perfect solution for having an allways on display without a real (and stupid) notch. I love this feature. Also knock…
My first (and apparently last, now) LG phone was a V30. It's currently my main driver and I have no plans to get rid of it. It has expandable storage, a headphone jack, a full screen with a very thin chin and forehead, a decent camera, loud speakers, a good fingerprint reader, FM radio, a battery that still gets me through a full day easily, and almost everything I want from a phone at what was a very competitive pri…
You should make plans to replace it because it's quite likely updates for it will end soon. Corporations are well known to bail early when a profit center is axed. You don't want to end up hacked.
Re: LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
#640All weaknesses aside, I always liked LG for their adventurous attempts to challenge the market.
There was a "dare product" every year, something noone has done so far but with the potential to push things forward in the industry.
Unfortunately, the lack of sales (and marketing) caused those leaps to get smaller every year...
They will be missed. In a world of ever-increasing smartphone conformity, they were the ones reliably rattling the cage by placing a screaming punk of a product just in the middle of the worldwide white-collar market...