I used to be digging by my junk bins yesterday night, searching for a cable, and got here throughout among the finest and worst telephones ever constructed: the LG V10.
There have been a number of Android telephones I actually favored. Telephones just like the Nexus One, HTC 10, and the Nexus 4 had been a few of my favorites. However the cellphone I cherished greater than another was the LG V10. Possibly that is why it went into my junk bin as a substitute of a recycling middle.
It is by no means going to work once more as a result of telephones want a battery and it would not have one which works. Even when it did energy up, there is a good likelihood many of the software program will simply toss out errors as a result of it is so previous and Android has moved on. LG isn’t around to repair it even when the corporate wished to replace an historical cellphone. Nonetheless, I will preserve it round.
I stated it was each one of the best and worst cellphone ever, and I meant simply that. The software on LG phones was horrendous, and that is being beneficiant. The corporate made a few of the finest telephones you could possibly purchase so long as you by no means turned them on.
I cherished it anyway, and there are three the reason why: it was constructed like a tank with a metal and rubber physique, and you could possibly pop off the again and alter the battery. It not solely had a headphone jack however audio {hardware} inside that rivaled an costly private audio participant. I have been informed I am an odd duck however these are the sorts of issues I cherished having when it got here time to purchase a cellphone.
I acquired loads of use out of it, too. As soon as I had moved on to a different cellphone I carried it in my bag as a hi-res music player for a number of extra years, the place it lived with out a SIM card. It additionally acquired bent as a result of I wished to attempt a “bend test” on the hardest cellphone accessible and apparently ate my spinach that day. But it surely carried out superbly proper up till the top.
I might sit right here and reminisce about one thing that can by no means be, however that is not very productive. As an alternative, I will say the quiet half out loud: an organization must remake a few of these “basic” Android telephones with new guts and modern software.
Think about an organization like OnePlus releasing a line of classics that had been clones of telephones just like the V10. There would not be an enormous market — not lots of people purchased them within the first place — however it will be enjoyable and newsworthy.
Options like a headphone jack, a giant detachable battery, or a cellphone constructed like a weapon as a substitute of comprised of glass are by no means coming again to the mainstream. Folks like me might want them to do it, however cellphone makers have determined we solely get skinny glass fashions with sealed batteries and a purpose to purchase Bluetooth earbuds.
No firm will remake yesterday’s telephones, but when one did, would you purchase it? I might.
