LG’s mobile division may be dead, but it still has something zombie-like going on: it has promised to upgrade some of its latest devices to Android 12 this year, and it’s very slowly delivering on that promise. After the Velvet and the V60 ThinQ, today LG V50 ThinQ 5G started receiving the update to Android 12. This update was supposed to take place by the end of June, but apparently it has been slightly delayed.
Sure, Android 13 might be just around the corner at this point, but it’s still commendable to see a company that quit the mobile game not forget its customers from days past. The V50 ThinQ 5G was released in April 2019, and the update to Android 12 is currently rolling out to Verizon models in the US. Presumably the other US variations of the phone are next in line to receive the goodies.
The LG V50 ThinQ is finally getting Android 12
With all of the buzz around Android 13, it’s hard to get excited about a phone getting Android 12. However, this is significant because LG shut down its mobile division last year. Everyone wondered what the company planned to do with software support. The LG Wing and the LG Velvet were released just the year before, so they had a ton of software support due to them.
The changelog is very sparse, but you should expect to receive all of the nice new features Google packed into Android 12 last year, including the privacy indicators for microphone and camera, controls for location sharing, and more. However, don’t expect any UI changes – integrating those would have been too much work apparently, so the software will look like it used to before the update.
As well, don’t expect any additional Android updates for the V50 ThinQ, this is the end of the line. And with the phone now being more than three years old, maybe the time has come to trade it in for something newer?
