While I loved the hardware design and LG's Android skin, those phones came loaded with often impossible to uninstall bloatware, locked to carriers, and with locked bootloaders.
Not that it really matters anymore, but T-Mobile's (US) LG phones had unlocked bootloaders. The catch is, though, that running a custom ROM became such a hassle in general, and the Stylo 5's Android skin good enough, that I've never bothered.
Sucks that I won't see a followup to the Stylo 5, which has been rock solid. They always seemed to offer a bit more for the buck than Samsung.
The problems with LG phones (Score:3)
While I loved the hardware design and LG's Android skin, those phones came loaded with often impossible to uninstall bloatware, locked to carriers, and with locked bootloaders.
Depended on carrier (Score:2)
Not that it really matters anymore, but T-Mobile's (US) LG phones had unlocked bootloaders. The catch is, though, that running a custom ROM became such a hassle in general, and the Stylo 5's Android skin good enough, that I've never bothered.
Sucks that I won't see a followup to the Stylo 5, which has been rock solid. They always seemed to offer a bit more for the buck than Samsung.