RIP: LG Quits The Smartphone Business

[stewie_e]

LG confirms it’s getting out of the smartphone business https://t.co/E3rRidZLWK pic.twitter.com/tS6eHeN93A
- The Verge (@verge) April 5, 2021
Yesterday LG announced that it would shut down its smartphone business after years of losses, marking the end of an era for the South Korean tech giant. The division is expected to close on July 31st, but the

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[kashiyaek]

i also used to have this one and bedazzled the backside lol

[slaughtermatic]

me exactly cept blue with blue crystals on the back. i thought i was the shit with that.

[peachypearl]

Ohhh my ex had like the other version of this in black/red (If I remember correctly) and I thought it was the most amazing thing EVER. A full keyboard on a PHONE!? I was stunned.

[buttertooth]

Is this the one that slid both ways? I had one that did that and thought it was the coolest LOL

RIP.

[xellabelle]

LG gave us this iconic scene and now we're really throwing the phone in the trash huh

Re: RIP.

[junhyosungs]

lmao why would she go through the effort of deleting those pictures if she was just gonna throw the whole phone away!!!

Re: RIP.

[likeanunmadebed]

omg I forgot how primitive technology was back then... but 2008, makes sense

now if you toss your phone in the trash, someone is bound to snatch it out and sell it!

[madhler]

That two-screen phone is great tho! I would have loved something like that for work.

[vaels]

I had a LG Nexus 5 back in the day and I loved that phone, it was perfect in every way tbh.

I also had this super cool dude, the LG 125. it was my second phone and the first one I picked out myself (my dad picked my first one lol).

[lovepollution]

I had that flip phone in pale pink and I LOVED it. There was something so satisfying about the way it flipped closed. I kind of miss flip phones tbh.

[vaels]

yeah I loved mine too, I thought it was so cute! I had that phone the whole way through university so we went through a lot together 😅

[eatmydustbinns]

I remember my Chocolate sucked too! It was fun at first because it was my first slider phone, but then my buttons started messing up.

[sanditar]

Yes, it was my first smartphone and it was shit