Re:LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
by thaumasiotes on Monday April 05, 2021 @10:23AM
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> I never understood why Samsung phones were constantly receiving praise by tech reviewers while LG got crapped on.
> LG always seemed a lot closer to stock Android, and was good at staying out of your way.
> Do people actually like all those Samsung annoyances? Why is Samsung considered the flagship of flagships? Build quality beyond the V30 is basically identical.
Well, knowing them only through my purchases of a Nexus S, Nexus 4, and Nexus 5:
The Nexus S is still around.
The Nexus 4 suffered from battery inflation.
The Nexus 5 suffered from a catastrophic failure that caused me to lose a year's worth of message history.
So all I can say in response to the news "LG is getting out of the mobile phone business" is "good riddance, they should never have been there in the first place".
Which one is "closer to stock Android" is a non-issue if you run stock Android anyway.
> LG always seemed a lot closer to stock Android, and was good at staying out of your way.
> Do people actually like all those Samsung annoyances? Why is Samsung considered the flagship of flagships? Build quality beyond the V30 is basically identical.
Well, knowing them only through my purchases of a Nexus S, Nexus 4, and Nexus 5:
The Nexus S is still around.
The Nexus 4 suffered from battery inflation.
The Nexus 5 suffered from a catastrophic failure that caused me to lose a year's worth of message history.
So all I can say in response to the news "LG is getting out of the mobile phone business" is "good riddance, they should never have been there in the first place".
Which one is "closer to stock Android" is a non-issue if you run stock Android anyway.