Just lately, a report revealed by a South Korean publication claimed that LG might launch the V10 successor in September. It’s now beginning to appear to be the report might have been fairly correct, as LG has formally confirmed that a new V-series smartphone shall be launched subsequent quarter.
In its second quarter financial report, the corporate talked about that the corporate’s smartphone enterprise unit is predicted to carry out higher within the subsequent quarter because of new V collection smartphone launch and increasing gross sales of mass-tier Okay and X collection fashions. Because the report mentions “subsequent quarter”, it means the V20 goes to be made official between July to September, which strains up completely with the timeframe talked about within the South Korean report.
LG’s flagship G5 was launched sooner than ordinary at Cellular World Congress, on the exact same day that Samsung introduced its flagship Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge smartphones. Nevertheless, shoppers weren’t too impressed with the modular flagship from LG and in consequence, G5 gross sales numbers are a lot decrease than what LG had hoped for. Meaning the LG V20 ought to be fairly spectacular with a purpose to seize the eye of smartphone consumers throughout the globe. The V10 bought in good numbers in the USA final yr, however it didn’t carry out very nicely in South Korea and different main markets around the globe.
The LG V20 might want to tackle not simply the Samsung Galaxy Word 7 but in addition the iPhone 7 Plus from Apple, which is predicted to be launched in mid-September in most markets all over the world. The Galaxy Word 7 then again can be made official this coming week and is predicted to go on sale in most markets inside a number of days of its official unveiling. The V20 might additionally face stiff competitors from HTC Nexus ‘Marlin’, which goes to succeed the Huawei made Nexus 6P from final yr.