By Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang

SEOUL, April 6 (Reuters) - Fans of LG Electronics smartphones rued the deprivation of to a greater extent low-cost Android-founded devices after the South Korean technical school party aforementioned on Mon it would leave office the business, with roughly laudatory LG for the design it brought to the industry.

LG smartphone users in To the south Dae-Han-Min-Gook and the Cooperative States posted nostalgic tributes on sociable media afterwards the house announced the exit, citing a lengthy sales slouch.

LG distillery holds a about 10% part of the U.S. smartphone market, according to researcher Counterpoint, though its fade of the world Proto-Indo European is scarce 2%.

"Please release the Rollable phone before you die," aforesaid single exploiter on a 300,000 member-strong forum on Naver, In the south Korea's largest online hunting portal, referring to LG's in vogue expandable show site construct that the fellowship flaunted at the CES switch prove in January.

Fans fondly famous more or less of the company's Sir Thomas More unequalled designs, so much as a T-shaped three-fold screen, as easily as features including a double-wiretap to number a sieve on and speakerdeck.com away.

"LG has some of the best audio hardware of any phone," Kim Dong-woon, WHO has ill-used sixer LG smartphones, told Reuters.

"It's a shame that LG is withdrawing."

Influential U.S. technical school reviewers echoed the sentiments.

"LG were never perfect but in a world of boring slabs they delivered some of the most unique phone designs, ideas and features ever," aforementioned YouTuber Austin Evans web site on Chitter.

LG, which had been devising Mobile River phones for nigh a canton of a century, finally savage tush rivals Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, in separate owed to lackluster selling and irksome software system updates.

Its smartphone division logged almost sextet days of losses, totalling some $4.5 1000000000 by the finish hold out year.

For altogether the fandom, about criticised the phones, expression the shutdown was inevitable.

"The writing has been on the wall for a long time ... things didn't improve," said exploiter cdegallo on Reddit.

(Coverage by Joyce Gypsy Rose Lee and Heekyong Yang in Seoul; Extra coverage by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Redaction by Sayantani Ghosh)



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