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LG has decided to pull out of the smartphone business
- tabiv 6y agoThat's a huge bummer. They were the last manufacterer to care about audio quality. I'd love to not have to buy a dedicated audio player to listen to my music.
- offtop5 6y agoI'm a bit split here, I've never had a good experience with an LG phone. At the same time there aren't all that many oems left, so with everyone that's lost, that's less from.
- karmakaze 6y agoYup. After I had a G6, I couldn't go back to anything less. Now using a G8. If you know/find a good successor would love to hear about it. Edit: Hmm, checking my statement.. Yeah, that's my experience, nothing to change.
- orf 6y agoApple doesn't care about audio quality?
- bluefirebrand 6y agoApple's not a smartphone manufacturer it is a lifestyle brand. If you aren't buying the lifestyle you're not their customer. Which is most people.
- orf 6y agoOk sure but they are also one of the major smartphone manufacturers
- bluefirebrand 6y agoThat's not the point. The point is people who don't buy into the Apple brand don't even consider it as an option. Not the way someone looking for a phone will consider the options between Motorola, LG, Samsung, etc. The fact that Apple manufactures Apple products is much more important than what those products are.
- orf 6y agoOk sure but when you open with “one of the largest smartphone manufacturers is actually not a smartphone manufacturer” its kind of hard to hear anything else you’re saying.
- vmception 6y agoso do they care about audio quality or not? I made it this far in the thread and keep reading irrelevant deflections
- aejnsn 6y agoI honestly just wear my AirPods Max as a lifestyle choice. /s
- indemnity 6y agoYes, the audio quality is better than my AudioTechnica and Sony cans, and it integrates super well with all my Apple devices. Totally a lifestyle choice to wear them in my home office where no one can see them!
- bluefirebrand 6y agoAh yes, because it integrates with your Apple IPad(tm) and your Apple Smart Watch(tm) and Apple TV(tm) and all of your Apple (tm) smart home products, but it's totally not a lifestyle choice. Sure thing.
- bsder 6y agoThey sell Beats, no? That should tell you everything you need to know about whether they care about audio quality. Hint: They don't. Obviously Apple doesn't want to make audio complete garbage, but any audio quality you get from Apple is a secondary consideration to pretty much any other criteria--design, form factor, fashion, etc.
- orf 6y agoLG sell fridges, that should tell you everything you need to know about whether they care about audio quality.
- bsder 6y agoI gave you an example of an Apple product with known garbage audio quality. And you compared it to a refrigerator. Sorry. My brain is clearly insufficient to understand your hyper-advanced reasoning.
- orf 6y agoMy fridge has garbage audio quality. It’s made by LG. Therefore LG doesn’t care about audio quality. It’s not hard to understand. It’s your argument after all.
- alexvoda 6y agoI would actually counter that with the fact that a fridge has audio at all, already places it ahead of most products it its category in terms of audio quality. On the other hand maybe silence is superior.
- orf 6y agoI think my point was that a fridge is as much targeted towards audiophiles as Beats headphones are. Maybe a microwave would have been a better example.
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- woliveirajr 6y agoLG G4 was a game changer (but not in a good way): mine and wife's stopped working 2 months after warranty expired. After lots of complaining that it was a worldwide known manufacturing failure, got a new one that lasted 6 months. It was the best and the worst phone that I owned. But it's always a pity to lose another option...
- everling 6y agoSame experience. Loved the G4, then it got caught in a boot loop.
- simplyaccont 6y agoMy wife got it and made a whole bunch of photos before it started to boot loop making it impossible to transfer photos from phone. Solution was to freeze phone and then power it up and quickly transfer photos outside. (bootloop was because high speed/power cores were going to overdrive and overheat what was causing phone to reboot)
- Exmoor 6y agoI'll join on the 18mo G4 bootloop bandwagon as well. It really turned me off of LG in general. I'd like to say it was just an issue with that model, but they had several generations of phones with similar issues. Some of their earlier phone (G2X, I think?) had even more extreme problems.
- Qw3r7 6y agoOT: I felt old for perhaps the second time in my life today as I was wondering if there are any phones on the market today with 3,5mm and no front camera.
- voussoir 6y agoHere's a search on GSMArena for releases 2019-present with 3.5 and no camera. They're all feature phones. https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2019&nCamSecMin=-1&nCamSecMax=-1&chk35mm=selected https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2019&nCamSecM... Alternatively, some brands did motorized pop-up cameras for a while, so at least it can't see you while it's closed. The Chinese brands tend to have bad reputations for their UIs, but there's also a Motorola in there. https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?chkFrontPopup=selected&chk35mm=selected https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?chkFrontPopup=selected...
- ashneo76 6y agoSame. I need a good DAC with 3.5 mm. I don't want to be locked into more proprietary garbage
- nightowl_games 6y agoLG had removable batteries which was great, but it was clear that they had poor brand recognition in the west.
- m-p-3 6y agoI had two LGs (LG Nexus 4, LG G3) and both failed during the second year.
- nobodywasishere 6y agoHope they provide the keys to unlock bootloaders to all their devices on the way out. Otherwise we'll probably end up with a bunch more ewaste. Have a few LG devices I wish I could put a custom rom on but alas, locked bootloaders.
- Smithalicious 6y agoA shame, I loved their V30 immensely, it was a fantastic phone. I'm on a Pixel now and I miss it sometimes.