LG Electronics’ Wing smartphone displayed at a store in Seoul, South Korea, on April 5, 2021. Fans fondly noted some of the company’s more unique designs, such as a T-shaped dual screen, as well as features including a double-tap to turn a screen on and off.
LG smartphone users in South Korea and the United States posted nostalgic tributes on social media after the firm announced the exit, citing a prolonged sales slump. LG still holds a roughly 10% share of the US smartphone market, according to researcher Counterpoint, though its slice of the global pie is just 2%.
“Please release the Rollable phone before you die,” said one user on a 300,000 member-strong forum on Naver, South Korea's largest online search portal, referring to LG's latest expandable display concept that the company flaunted at theFans fondly noted some of the company’s more unique designs, such as a T-shaped dual screen, as well as features including a double-tap to turn a screen on and off.
“LG has some of the best audio hardware of any phone,” Kim Dong-woon, who has used six LG smartphones, told Reuters. “It’s a shame that LG is withdrawing.
Its smartphone division logged nearly six years of losses, totalling roughly US$4.5bil by the end last year.“The writing has been on the wall for a long time... things didn’t improve,” said user cdegallo on Reddit. – Reuters