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LG’s V20 To Be The First Android Nougat Smartphone

Arriving in September, it is all set to beat the Google Nexus as the first smartphone with the latest version of the Android operating system.

 

What’s cooking between LG and Google? Last night the Korean major announced that their latest V20 smartphone would be the first to sport Android Nougat operating system. So does this mean that Google has abdicated its right to launch the new OS from one of its own Nexus brand devices?

Of course, with LG one is never quite sure as published media reports indicate. A report in TechCrunch.com says that LG has kept most of the information about the new launch under wraps. Besides a promise to ship the phone in Q3 (which is now), there is not much that is known about the V20, apart from the fact that it succeeds the V10, which was a massive Marshmallow-based handset that garnered positive reviews.

The company had informed analysts during a recently convened earnings report about the successor of the V10. The official LG website gives bare details about the purported launch and thereafter goes on to describe what the Nougat will bring to the updated version of the phone.

It may be recalled that the LG V10 was launched last October and came with some interesting features like a screen-within-a-screen, dual front-facing cameras, a robust display and pretty solid build quality.

So, what is the excitement all about? Is it that Google has done something different this time by allowing another company to launch a phone with its latest updated OS? Or is it that people would be keen to check out the successor to a phone that provided a new lease of life to LG’s lame duck phones division?

At Techtree.com, we believe that it could be the latter. The V10 that launched last year was quite wacky. Besides the dual-screen, the dual-cameras facing one side, the phone had a strong build. In some ways, it replaced the phablet, an experiment that cost the company a few sniggers and several hundred thousand dollars.

On top of this, there is also the fact that LG has built most of the Nexus phones for Google. Between Huawei and LG, the companies have been taking small profits in lieu for the large volumes that the business can generate. 

Maybe, for once Google wants to do its long-time partner a good turn by allowing it to launch its latest operating system. Maybe, someone at Mountain View feels that the over-sized screen that the V20 is likely to sport could just be a better bet for new Nougat users as compared to what the Nexus has in store for them. 


TAGS: Android Nougat, Android N, LG V20

 
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