EOL for Optimus G?

[ggt]

I just read on the Sprint forum that this phone has been tagged for EOL. Can anyone confirm or refute this? If this is true, I'm done with Sprint. Sprint Community: No More Optimus G Updates

 

[Little Darwin]

I don't have any information, but it would suck. I bought a high end phone this time in large part to ensure that it would be supported for a while. If it is true that the Optimus G is declared as EOL within 6 months or so of release, it is ludicrous!

As a paying customer, I would expect a newly released, high end, phone to be supported for at least the 2 years that I had to sign up for, in order to get a reasonable price on it.

 

[itr themes]

This is really disappointing. I had my heart set on a Z10 for a very long time, and stuck with an older BB (8530) for a year just waiting for it to be released. Then Sprint says they're not going to offer it. I made the tough decision to stick with them, and try out the Android world, and re-uped my contract for 2 more years on the LG-OG. I am really second guessing my decision to stay with Sprint now though. very frustrating!

 

[unixpsycho]

Maybe Sprint isn't selling enough of them to bother restocking? If that's the case then it would make business sense, as they don't want a warehouse full of phones that are not selling.

 

[Little Darwin]

The bottom line is that I think it is a nice phone with 4.1.2. Even though I am disappointed, I don't think EOL is tragic... It just seems premature.

 

[gollum18]

This is really disappointing. I had my heart set on a Z10 for a very long time, and stuck with an older BB (8530) for a year just waiting for it to be released. Then Sprint says they're not going to offer it. I made the tough decision to stick with them, and try out the Android world, and re-uped my contract for 2 more years on the LG-OG. I am really second guessing my decision to stay with Sprint now though. very frustrating!

That must have been a while ago sprints upgrades run for 18 months now not 24.

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[Little Darwin]

That must have been a while ago sprints upgrades run for 18 months now not 24.

I believe he was referring to the 2 year contract Sprint makes you commit to for a phone upgrade... as far as I know, 24 months is still the norm. At least it is on my plan. I know that for a while they reduced the wait for long time customers, or those who paid more than a certain amount monthly, but as I recall they removed that perk.

 

[reddragon72]

Funny how Sprint EOL'd the thing but LG just released it for Europe LOL

 

[1of7627]

Of the dozen or so phones I've bought over the last few years, few received any sort of update at all, let alone an incremental or substantial OS update. An EOL announcement for this phone doesn't strike me as all that unusual based on near monthly releases of devices in this realm. Other carriers/vendors I've dealt with have done the same thing. I just bought my Optimus G, not because it will get any love or "support" from the carrier or vendor, but because a quad-core device with 2gb of RAM and a current OS will still be viable for several years regardless of what else comes down the pike and that's likely as long as I'll need it. - MarkC

 

[cmandd]

Don't believe that thread. That screenshot wasn't even from Sprint, looked more like a 3rd party. If the phone (or any of them listed) were going EOL, we would have been told way before now.

 

[Noble One]

Yeah...phonearena already exposed this as a fake. They did note that the likelihood of this phone being eol if/when the optimus g pro comes out is pretty high.