Since LG has announced G7 One and Fit, I cannot stop thinking how awesome would it be if LG would release Android One for G7 ThinQ, as well.
Coming from Nexus 5X (which was, coincidentally, also made by LG), I really prefer streamlined, pure Android design to anything I have seen so far from OEMs. Not just LG, in general.
It would also help with getting updates on time. My ThinQ still runs Android 8, and there is no set date for Pie update. 8.2 was completely omitted. Eventually, more affordable G7 One is likely to receive updates more frequently than G7 ThinQ, which really doesn't make sense.
Getting rid of extra apps. Honestly, one of the first things I have done was to default to Google's base apps - phone, contacts, gallery etc. I just prefer design more, it is more consistent. Still, default LG apps on occasion "break through" - opening one app from the other app sometimes brings up LG preferred rather than my preferred app, even if I have changed defaults; maybe there's something in UX settings that conflicts with Android's defaults - haven't really paid attention when that happened, it is not often. I would not mind if LG would still offers their apps as optional DL, but clean, pure Android would be nice.
Camera - I have been told that Google's own camera app is superior. Not just app itself but underlying algorithms for noise reduction, sharpening, image processing.
Eventually, phone has dedicated Android Assistant button - it almost feels it has been made for Android One in mind, but LG last minute decided to make it "their own". While there still is marketing perception that Android customization is perceived by consumers as extra value, I think this will change soon with surge of Android One phones - most currently low to mid range, according to old way of thinking - but decent phones coming out more often, likes of Nokia 7, LG G7 One and others... and if Nokia 9 is anything being rumored to be, there is real Android One flagship in making, right there.
Not saying LG should simply drop UX and shone One down everyone's throat, but maybe giving customers a choice - stay with UX and depend on our pro-activity to prep updates, or switch to One and lose LG apps for that clean balanced up-to-date vanilla Android feel.
How hard would it be to offer One to ThinQ, now that it is already on G7 One?
Coming from Nexus 5X (which was, coincidentally, also made by LG), I really prefer streamlined, pure Android design to anything I have seen so far from OEMs. Not just LG, in general.
It would also help with getting updates on time. My ThinQ still runs Android 8, and there is no set date for Pie update. 8.2 was completely omitted. Eventually, more affordable G7 One is likely to receive updates more frequently than G7 ThinQ, which really doesn't make sense.
Getting rid of extra apps. Honestly, one of the first things I have done was to default to Google's base apps - phone, contacts, gallery etc. I just prefer design more, it is more consistent. Still, default LG apps on occasion "break through" - opening one app from the other app sometimes brings up LG preferred rather than my preferred app, even if I have changed defaults; maybe there's something in UX settings that conflicts with Android's defaults - haven't really paid attention when that happened, it is not often. I would not mind if LG would still offers their apps as optional DL, but clean, pure Android would be nice.
Camera - I have been told that Google's own camera app is superior. Not just app itself but underlying algorithms for noise reduction, sharpening, image processing.
Eventually, phone has dedicated Android Assistant button - it almost feels it has been made for Android One in mind, but LG last minute decided to make it "their own". While there still is marketing perception that Android customization is perceived by consumers as extra value, I think this will change soon with surge of Android One phones - most currently low to mid range, according to old way of thinking - but decent phones coming out more often, likes of Nokia 7, LG G7 One and others... and if Nokia 9 is anything being rumored to be, there is real Android One flagship in making, right there.
Not saying LG should simply drop UX and shone One down everyone's throat, but maybe giving customers a choice - stay with UX and depend on our pro-activity to prep updates, or switch to One and lose LG apps for that clean balanced up-to-date vanilla Android feel.
How hard would it be to offer One to ThinQ, now that it is already on G7 One?
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