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Fun but doomed: LG’s most memorable smartphones – Yahoo News Australia
The South Korean firm is giving up on mobiles after repeatedly trying to out-innovate the market.
There had been chatter for years that LG would quit the smartphone business.
It was once the world’s third-bestselling mobile brand. These days the loss-making business doesn’t even make the global smartphone top 10 list. Market research firm IDC places it 11th.
But its decision to finally give up marks a significant moment.
Not only because it might be the catalyst for other struggling companies, such as Sony, to make the same decision.
But also because LG had distinguished itself by trying to…
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