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RIP @LGMobileGlobal. They had some truly unique devices and pushed the market to innovate (ultra-wide lens, pro mode…).
— Daniel (@ZONEofTECH) April 5, 2021
I believe their main problem was the total lack of marketing. They never pushed for review units or major press events.
You will be missed though. https://t.co/sWRdHihthp
Well it's official. LG mobile is done.
— Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) April 5, 2021
RIP pic.twitter.com/vW8wdjMf5J
LG phones were often as intriguing as they were frustrating. Clever ideas mired in inexplicable decisions: an inability to commit to targeting the mainstream or playing plucky, imaginative underdog. I'll miss the weird devices (& have forgotten the rest) https://t.co/eMrICwISG4
— Chris Davies (@c_davies) April 5, 2021
My first ever smartphone was an LG Voyager
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) April 5, 2021
You hate to see it, but really this is deserved. LG gave up on being anything more than a copy of Samsung years ago https://t.co/5tXAihNF53
— Ben Schoon (@NexusBen) April 5, 2021
LG's market share has been declining & slipped to below 5% mark across except couple of regions. LG was too much dependent on two markets:
— Neil Shah (@neiltwitz) April 5, 2021
Korea (KR) & North America (NA)
The "small vacuum" to be filled by
✔️Samsung, Moto, Alcatel & newcomers (Vinsmart) in NA
✔️Samsung in KR pic.twitter.com/wqJlsgLliT
LG is exiting the smartphone business. I still believe that instead of going the Android route, they should have used their strength to launch a new Palm OS device. The world lacks a webOS phone, not another generic android device. https://t.co/ZO6HqFysld
— Tariq KRIM (@tariqkrim) April 5, 2021
The official announcement.
— Daniel Rubino (@Daniel_Rubino) April 5, 2021
Also, they mention "6G", so time to start preparing https://t.co/bTKHWyxcuB
LG was unable to compete with the likes of Samsung and Apple on core R&D and customer service. Its products, meanwhile, were often novel, but rarely holistically compelling. They were the Infiniti to Samsung's Lexus.
— David Ruddock (@RDRv3) April 5, 2021
News from Seoul: LG Electronics is closing its mobile business unit.
— Joanna Stern (@JoannaStern) April 5, 2021
Goodbye forever crazy LG phones I never recommended but always had a ton of fun reviewing. pic.twitter.com/3dG1o1zRoF
Sad news but LG is getting out of the Smartphone market. It's end of a era and not good for us as consumers.
— Ranjit (@geekyranjit) April 5, 2021
But to be frank LG India smartphone divison was never that aggressive in India. https://t.co/QuiUZ4cQ6I
LG Electronics will hang up its smartphone business, with investors welcoming the news as shares in the South Korean company rose more than 2% in Monday morning trade.https://t.co/rg7uMd5sem
— Nikkei Asia (@NikkeiAsia) April 5, 2021
Pour one out for LG Mobile. They're the reason we have ultrawides in every new phone right now. They didn't always ace every phone, but losing them means losing a competitor that was willing to try new things, even when they didn't work. pic.twitter.com/x6rXDhlVfN
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) April 5, 2021
LG is done making phones. It did a lot for the industry over the years, but spent the last few just chucking weird stuff at the wall. It was fun, but not a business. https://t.co/nzv2bKgNtJ
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) April 5, 2021
My favorite LG phone (that I can remember immediately) was the G5, the one with the bottom that slid out for a replicable battery or modular add-ons.
— Michael Crider (@MichaelCrider) April 5, 2021
Say what you will about support or software, LG never shied away from a new hardware design.
nobody bought them but we all loved them rest in spaghetti see you at my dishwasher lifes good https://t.co/BvP7q9ITLx
— Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) April 5, 2021
Today is a sad day for Tech ?
— Safwan AhmedMia (@SuperSaf) April 5, 2021
LG made some mistakes along the way but they brought a lot to the table and weren’t afraid to try new things, whether that be Ultrawide Cameras or a Swivel Display.
RIP LG Smartphones ?https://t.co/dV479ao9sF
Sad day for mobile enthusiasts. https://t.co/5dVy6dsasf
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) April 5, 2021
LG is quitting the phone business, leaving only Sony alive from my 2016 Android OEM death watch.https://t.co/EzMUvZFhJKhttps://t.co/GtjMuOBp08
— Vlad Savov (@vladsavov) April 5, 2021
Farewell LG, you've given us some incredible times! On the phone front, you tried things that others wouldn't and you're the reason we have Ultrawide cameras on every phone right now. I'll truly miss some of your phones https://t.co/kmrCpt3HpK
— Nirave 尼拉夫 (@nirave) April 5, 2021
LG, in some years, was actually competitive @ high end. But lack of consistency from yr to yr burned carriers. Looking back, I think the G5 was probably the biggest product disaster in terms of killing momentum that was built from G2➡️G3➡️G4, which were actually good for the time
— Alex Dobie (@alexdobie) April 5, 2021
Contrary position: LG never spent what was needed to get its products in front of people at carrier stores (esp v Samsung), was behind in technology (v Samsung particularly) and concentrated on flagships when the Android market shifted to low-cost good-enough models. https://t.co/qKtZZuSqvn
— Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) April 5, 2021
With this in mind.... an ode to my first phone.... the beautiful lg chocolate in cerulean bluehttps://t.co/hWyUMMIvqa pic.twitter.com/0jtna2sd1L
— Caroline Haskins (@caro1inehaskins) April 5, 2021
LG withdraws from smartphone market. Apple and Samsung dominate but Chinese brands growing. Who remembers Nokia and Blackberry? It’s a tough business.https://t.co/hzi9K6lief
— Wayne Chen (@wcchen) April 5, 2021
Dayum thats sad. Another OG gone.
— Clinton Jeff (@clintonjeff) April 5, 2021
I feel like LG was always right up there with Samsung in terms of innovation, but they were just terrible at marketing their phones. https://t.co/0DkPZygXnI
it's official, LG is exiting the smartphone business. It's been obvious for years that it has been extremely difficult for LG to compete against Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, and many others. LG is now closing its phone business by the end of July https://t.co/B3Nxf6u9H4
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) April 5, 2021
LG closes its mobile phone business - big moment in an industry where Apple, Samsung and a clutch of Chinese players make money, and the rest struggle https://t.co/tdthBr2rG6
— Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) April 5, 2021
I feel like the wheels came off in 2016/7, with G5 and LG's decision to abandon the modularity it had just hyped. Not so much because I liked the idea, but because it gave users/carriers/reviewers zero confidence LG would commit to something. Everything after seemed scattershot. pic.twitter.com/XBPqBtNaaD
— Chris Davies (@c_davies) April 5, 2021
RIP LG phones. Your ideas were funky, your software was terrible, your cameras were great, and I'd never buy you but I'm sort of sad you're gone anyway https://t.co/5B4iZvn6it
— David Pierce (@pierce) April 5, 2021
*sigh* bye bye LG phones. They’re leaving the smartphone business. Will support existing models (how long depends on region you’re in). https://t.co/rb2JUO9hvt
— Lisa Gade (@lisagade) April 5, 2021
LG's biggest contribution to smartphone world is Ultra-Wide cameras and Nexus 5, which is partly responsible for pure Android success. When 6 OEMs control 80% of the market share, this was inevitable. https://t.co/87QTcBVvdA
— Karthekayan Iyer (@kkiyer90) April 5, 2021
More here.
— Alex Dobie (@alexdobie) April 5, 2021
Still basically a one fact story, but LG will apparently continue to support existing devices.https://t.co/uTDSLVpuJP
Very sad day. LG maintained its #3 position in the US but couldn't keep its head above water globally. Writing a story now. https://t.co/vgCdMtwO0N
— Sascha Segan (@saschasegan) April 5, 2021
LG's struggle underscores the immense difficulty of competing at the high end of the smartphone market, and the massive costs involved to do so (that are rarely rewarded with profit). If you aren't willing to lose money, your chances of breaking into that market are zero.
— David Ruddock (@RDRv3) April 5, 2021
I think this is a good decision to shut down the loss making mobile division of LG. They should focus more on their core business which is selling home appliances and other B2B solutions. https://t.co/54t44jZqRX
— Manas Muduli?? (@manas_muduli) April 5, 2021
this is the part where I'm supposed to share a wistful LG phone memory but I don't really have one
— David Ruddock (@RDRv3) April 5, 2021
LG Electronics said Monday that its board decided to terminate the company's loss-making smartphone business
— Moe (@moneyacademyKE) April 5, 2021
The handset unit made $4.4bn in operating losses over the last six years.
The wind down of the phone business is expected to be completed by the end of July
-NikkeiAsia
LG bled over $4.5 billion and spent six years before quitting the smartphone business. It couldn’t even find a buyer for its assets
— pankaj mishra (@pankajontech) April 5, 2021
When to quit sounds far more important question to answer than when (and whether) to enter a market https://t.co/droUGdSjnk
We knew it was coming but it's sad to see it nonetheless: LG is officially out of the phone business. https://t.co/bshs43KWOg
— Daniel Bader (@journeydan) April 5, 2021
End of an era. From Nexus devices to the Wing, LG drive innovation forward. Going to miss their take on phones. https://t.co/Caa5dYRpmb
— Jon Rettinger (@Jon4Lakers) April 5, 2021
— Russell Holly (@russellholly) April 5, 2021
Sad to hear this.. Bye Bye LG. Miss u.https://t.co/43Bct1pn6w
— Saurabh Gupta (@ParasmeSaurabh) April 5, 2021
Sad to see LG exit the mobile businesshttps://t.co/nctaJpFmgu
— Harish Jonnalagadda (@chunkynerd) April 5, 2021
LG joins Blackberry, Nokia, Motorola, Essential, Facebook, Amazon, Mozilla, Microsoft, Acer, Palm, Panasonic, Toshiba, HP, LeEco, Nextbit, Dell, Gigabyte, Ericsson, and many others in the pile of companies that couldn't cut it in the smartphone market. RIP https://t.co/nvlivXuPN3
— Otto Olah (@ottoolah) April 5, 2021