LG Velvet 2 Pro Is A New LG Flagship Exclusive To Its Employees

LG was working on multiple new devices when it appear its go out from the smartphone business terminal month. The company after confirmed that information technology won't continue with the development of the LG Rollable and LG V70. Well, it appears the phones could still see the daylight. According to leaked info posted on Twitter by @FrontTron,the Korean company is planning to start selling the then-called LG V70 as the LG Velvet 2 Pro presently in Korea. Unfortunately, merely LG employees can buy it.

The sale was reportedly slated to commence today. However, LG has delayed it due to loftier need. Well, the company is apparently charging only nigh $176 for a phone that sports a six.viii-inch FHD+ OLED display with a 120Hz refresh charge per unit, a Snapdragon 888 processor with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, and a four,500mAh battery. That'southward an accented steal at under $200, and then the high demand is understandable. The original LG Velvet launched with a starting cost of $599.

According to the source, the new model comes with pressure-sensitive touch-sensor buttons for book and power. The telephone volition exist available in glossy black, sleeky beige, and bimetallic bronze colors, with the latter coming in a dual-tone terminate. LG is also including two jelly cases in the box.

LG had initially prepared only 3000 units of the Velvet ii Pro, which is also called LG Rainbow. The company wanted to sell a maximum of two units to each of its interested employees in Korea. However, overwhelmingly high demand for the handset has now forced it to rethink that strategy. The company may now produce more than units of the phone.

LG is as well reportedly mulling extending the post-auction service menstruum for the telephone to 24 months from the previously suggested six months. It will not offer software updates to the phone though.

LG Rollable could also exist selling behind closed doors

According to the aforementioned source, LG might besides be selling the Rollable phone to its employees. Details about this phone and its pricing are scarce simply information technology's also reportedly but available in Korea. The company had final month confirmed that the LG Rollable volition not exist developed whatever further. So this news comes as a surprise as well. Mayhap the company was almost ready with this futuristic phone just never pushed information technology out the door.

Anyways, LG is prohibiting resales of the Velvet 2 Pro and the Rollable phone. Then you lot're unlikely to find these phones lurking somewhere on the spider web. An unfortunate end to a promising adjacent-gen smartphone. Hopefully, some other OEM will come up upwardly with a similar product presently.