There's a surprising amount going on with the design of the Minimal Phone, considering the device's anti-distraction mission.

This messaging-oriented GSM phone is LG's first with a slide-out text keyboard. This otherwise basic model features instant messaging, class 10 GPRS, voice dialing, Java, and an internal antenna.

The LG Wing broke every rule of the textbook, with a big and bulky design, far too many moving parts, and at a premium price ...

Even before that, though, I knew LG as the maker of fun and affordable feature phones. There were the Voyage and enV, which I gave my kids. The latter featured an excellent QWERTY keyboard ...

And while other manufacturers would create something innovative and bizarre every now-and-again, it truly became what LG was known for. From phones that existed before their time, those with two ...

LG left the smartphone industry in 2021, and the company laid out a three-year plan to continue supporting users with new updates for eligible phone models. That support has continued for a little ...

Pour one out for anyone using an LG smartphone in 2025. The company is shutting down its servers for good, which will block the phones from any future updates. The Korean tech giant announced in 2021 ...

The final farewell for LG’s phone business. The final farewell for LG’s phone business. The end-of-service announcement was expected — when LG exited the smartphone industry, it promised ...

Motorola hyped the revival of the Rizr in 2023 as a rollable concept phone. The vertical ... Products such as the Clicks keyboard demonstrate that the demand remains present. A contemporary Moto Cliq, ...

Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case for a while now: LG gave up on the phone business in April 2021, reducing the choices Android customers have—especially in the United States. That being ...

LG, just like Nokia and a few other companies, dropped out of the smartphone business not long ago. While Nokia phones can still be bought thanks to HMD Global, no new LG smartphone have been launched ...

LG announced just over four years ago that it would depart the smartphone business, and now the clock is running out on any remaining updates for the company’s Android phones. When LG called it ...