The successor to the LG V10 is just around the corner. Here's a primer on what we know so far.
In any other year, the might have been just another Android phone. But the follow-up to the decent but underappreciated has one unique trick up its sleeve -- it'll be the first handset to arrive with preloaded. And that turns what might've been just another Android "phablet" into a milestone device for the platform.
Ahead of the September launch event, let's take a look at what we know so far about LG's next big thing.
1. The first phone shipping with Android 7.0
Google's Nexus devices are already starting to get , but the honor of first phone shipping with the new version of Android goes to the LG V20. LG -- a company that's proudly boasted of software "firsts" in the past -- has announced that its device, not any future Nexus phone, will be the first with Android 7.0.
The V20 is even prominently the V20 on its Android Nougat website, showing a holographic cutout of the phone.
That render also pours cold water on hopes that the LG might have switched to a more barebones UI atop Nougat; instead the screenshot shown on Google's page looks almost exactly like the UI of the .